{"id":11232,"date":"2025-07-17T21:34:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T20:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=11232"},"modified":"2025-07-17T21:34:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T20:34:07","slug":"x-men-age-of-revelation-0-annotations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=11232","title":{"rendered":"X-Men: Age of Revelation #0 annotations"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>X-MEN: AGE OF REVELATION #0<\/strong>
\nWriter: Jed MacKay<\/strong>
\nPenciller: Humberto Ramos<\/strong>
\nInker: Victor Olazaba<\/strong>
\nColourist: Edgar Delgado<\/strong>
\nEditor: Tom Brevoort<\/strong><\/p>\n

This one-shot is basically an extra issue of\u00a0X-Men<\/em>, acting as a prologue for the upcoming “Age of Revelation” crossover. It’s a 20 page story with some promotional material at the end. Since the story basically consists of Xorn narrating how this timeline came about, it doesn’t really lend itself to a character-by-character breakdown. So we’ll do it page by page.<\/p>\n

Kindle’s page numbering for comics is still broken – it still insists that they start on page 2 – so I’ll just go with the story page numbers. (When does this Neon Ichiban thing start, anyway?)<\/p>\n

PAGES 1-3.\u00a0<\/strong>The Seraphim down a Quinjet.<\/em><\/p>\n

Xorn.<\/strong> Our narrator throughout this issue is Shen Xorn, who’s been hanging around in the background throughout Jed MacKay’s run, not doing a great deal. We’ll come to why he’s potentially important to the “Age of Revelation” storyline.<\/p>\n

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This whole story takes place in an alternate future timeline in which Revelation has created a mutant nation which is in the process of reclaiming the United States. This is presumably the same timeline which we saw briefly in the 2024\u00a0Timeslide<\/em> one-shot. In that story, Cable and Bishop’s time travel jumps briefly lead to them appearing in Washington DC in “the near future”, where an older Bronze rescues them from what she describes as a “War-Lock drone”. She explains rather vaguely that Revelation has completed Apocalypse’s mission, and then gives them a list of potentially significant events that might have led to this timeline. Obviously, by the nature of the\u00a0Timeslide<\/em> one-shot, most of this is just a list of trailers for upcoming storylines, but the final item on the list is “3K Gene Bomb”, which we’ll come to. For what it’s worth, Bronze also briefly identifies Jitter as a surviving X-Man.<\/p>\n

Since Bishop and Cable are busy with another time travel storyline at the time, they ignore all of this and move on, much to Bronze’s annoyance.<\/p>\n

Xorn gives us a much fuller account of how this timeline came about, over the course of this issue. However, bear in mind that what we’re getting here is only Xorn’s perspective, and while there’s no reason to think he’s lying to us, he’s not necessarily correct about everything. The script draws our attention several times to points where Xorn may be speculating.<\/p>\n

Quinjets.<\/strong> The standard Avengers aircraft, but now apparently in use by the USAF.<\/p>\n

The Seraphim.<\/strong> Agents of Revelation, obviously. Xorn refers to this particular group as “a flight of Seraphim”, implying that there are many more. Revelation seems to favour angelic imagery, consistent with his view that he’s the good guy (and with Xorn’s description of his power later as the “Voice of God”). The four Seraphim seen here are:<\/p>\n