In 1995, X-Men fans noticed something strange happening to their favorite line of books. The crossover event, Legion Quest ended with the insane son of Charles Xavier, Legion, killing his father in the past. The next month, new books appeared. Featuring new team iterations, heroes turned villains and vice versa, these books were set in a dark world where long standing villain Apocalypse ruled a mutant dominated society. The Age of Apocalypse was here. The event was lauded by fans, and is considered the best multi part crossover the mutants have being a part of. A tenth anniversary mini series returned to the world in 2005, and has being used from time to time in the X-books since, most recently in the recent Uncanny X-Force storyline The Dark Angel Saga. Now, revealed on Marvel's live blog, and in it's recent Point One on shot, writer David Lapham (Stray Bullets, Batman: City of Crime) and artist Roberto De La Torre are returning to the universe with new ongoing series Age of Apocalypse. Spinning out of The Dark Angel Saga, the series finds Weapon X, the AoA version of Wolverine, as the new overlord, having just wiped out the last enclave of humanity. The main characters are the X-Terminated, human survivors introduced in Point One, which include heroic versions of villains Donald Pierce and William Stryker. For the reason he picked these characters, Lapham said, The basis of the book, though is going to be these human level characters in this world where they're outnumbered one thousand to one. At this point, I don't see it just ramping up to become this universe expanding Celestials where that leads to that level of character. The focus is going to be on the human characters." Other characters who play a major role include Sabretooth and Phoenix. Speaking of writing the book, Lapham said he likes that the AoA universe has it's own loose continuity. It's incredibly freeing. It's more what I'm used to. I can play with the toys without constantly having to check on the continuity. Hopefully what that translates into from an anything goes sense, we have a whole world to play with. We can blow up whatever we want and we can do anything. The first twelve issues of the book have being plotted, with a very clear first 12 , which is comprised of many story lines that gets us to a certain turning point. I have many thoughts of where we can go beyond there. Age of Apocalypse will launch March 2012.