by Scott Lobdell (Author), Mark Waid (Author), Fabian Nicieza (Author), Jeph Loeb (Author), Larry Hama (Author), John Francis Moore (Author), Warren Ellis (Author), Andy Kubert (Cover Art, Artist), Roger Cruz (Artist), Ron Garney (Artist), Ian Churchill (Artist), Chris Bachalo (Artist), Joe Madureira (Artist), Tony Salvador Daniel (Artist), Adam Kubert (Artist), Steve Epting (Artist), Steve Skroce (Artist), Ken Lashley (Artist)

Collects Uncanny X-Men (1963) #320-321, X-Men (1991) #40-41, Cable (1993) #20, X-Men Alpha, Generation Next #1, Astonishing X-Men (1995) #1, Gambit and the X-Ternals #1, Weapon X (1995) #1, Factor X #1, X-Man #1, X-Calibre #1, Amazing X-Men (1995) #1.

Fully updated reading order! Charles Xavier is dead — killed twenty years in the past during a time-travel accident — and the world created by his absence is a nightmare! Apocalypse rules with an iron fist, ruthlessly enforcing his dictum that only the strong shall survive. But hidden in Apocalypse’s long shadow are a group of ragtag freedom fighters led by Xavier’s oldest friend, Magneto: the X-Men! When Bishop, last survivor of the true Marvel Universe, explains how the world went wrong, these embittered mutants and their tenuous allies must risk everything to put things right!