“The original AoA also marked the first time that a major comics company decided to halt publication of its best-selling titles,” X-editor Mike Marts added. “For all intents and purposes, the regular X-Men series went away for four months — a definite risk at the time, but one that definitely worked. And just think how many great concepts came out of AoA... Abyss, Blink, X-Man, Dark Beast, Sugarman... “In any event, it seemed silly not to commemorate the 10th anniversary of AoA without some type of special project... we started brainstorming a bit and then before you knew it, we had the complete AoA package we’re presenting here.” Therefore, to commemorate the special anniversary event, a special X-Men: Age of Apocalypse One-Shot is planned for March. “The one-shot is four short stories (and a bunch of pinups),” Barber explained. “Half the one-shot is written by original Age of Apocalypse writers, and the other half is by the “new” AoA crew. So for the “classics”, we’ve got Scott Lobdell and Larry Hama. The “new” side is Tony Bedard and Akira Yoshida. Drawing them, we’ve got Mark Brooks, Talent Caldwell, Roger Cruz, and Kia Asamyia.
