I didn’t know much about Apocalypse, so I did some homework and read the Age Of Apocalypse crossover stuff. I still don’t know much about him other than his “mutants are better than you” stance. As far as I can tell, his mutant ability is the power to be a great manager, because his Horsemen and other underlings do…

So far, the early reviews are... not encouraging. The last one I saw said Apocalypse makes The Last Stand look like X2, which is just a mean thing to say.

When will people realize that the closer you come to omnipotent or all-powerfull, the less interesting the bad guy is?

I collected comics growing up but am no way a hardcore “know every miniseries” dude who knows everything that has happened over the last twenty years in comics. What I DO know and remember is that when Apocalypse used to show up it always was a feeling of “whoa, shit got real.” Sucks that this didn’t translate. Maybe…