It’s all-Apocalypse, all the time in Marvel’s Apocalypse Wars, three stories featuring the villain to launch this spring in the three X-Men titles, the company announced Friday.  The stories will not be connected, but will all be about Apocalypse. 

The name of the event was announced at Comic Con Experience 2015 in Sao Paolo a couple of weeks ago (see “Marvel Plans ‘Apocalypse Wars’ X-Men Event”), but the creative teams, start dates, and story descriptions have now been revealed. 

Kicking off first is the story in Extraordinary X-Men, which will launch in #8, shipping in March.  The story is by Jeff Lemire, with art and cover by Humberto Ramos.  Set in the distant future, Apocalypse intercepts the mutant race’s last hope in the time stream. 

In April, an Apocalypse Wars story launches in Uncanny X-Men #6.  In the story written by Cullen Bunn with art by Ken Lashley, Psylocke is trying to find out why Archangel will destroy a target at which he’s aimed, but otherwise seems like a drone. 

And in May, an Apocalypse story launches in All New X-Men #9, written by Dennis Hopeless, with art and cover by Mark Bagley. As the young X-Men try to get out from under the legacies from their older counterparts, Kid Apocalypse will be tested to see whether he’ll become a genocidal maniac like his namesake. 

Apocalypse is getting big play in 2016, with the X-Men:  Apocalypse film premiering May 27 (see “First ‘X-Men:  Apocalypse Trailer Released”).

The Apocalypse publishing program may mean that Marvel has high hopes for the Fox film.  Compare what it’s doing with Apocalypse with the complete shutdown of publishing around Marvel’s first characters the Fantastic Four around the release of the Fox movie. 

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