This was pretty awful.

Opening with a terrible Shadowking story with a dumb as fuck twist that made no sense. Then we get right into Apocalypse. And You can tell Kirkman didn't want to write this. Kirkman has been very vocal about his time at Marvel and especially near the end of his time there, and how awful the mandates and forced editorial were So this was for sure shoved into his face to do because Apocalpyse appears and dies within 70 pages...what a useless character in this universe.

On top of that, you have Jean's phoenix story here but it's so...blah. Like it's a literal "Restart" button BUT guess what? There's only one more volume of this series before Ultimatum and they do another restart there so...

Yeah this was shit to put it nicely. Also the art was meh, with faces ugly as can be.