This will get lost in the #0.1 release hubbub but today Marvel published a bookend to the four volume X-Men: The Complete Age of Apocalypse Epic series.

X-Men Age of Apocalypse Prelude contains reprints of various issues that lead into the Age of Apocalypse as well as a reprint of one of the X-Men ashcans from the mid-1990s. These tiny promotional books were either sold or given away as freebies but now are rather hard to find. The ashcan for AoA contained a cryptic description of the AoA storyline and included, among other covers, black and white cover art to Astonishing X-Men #1 featuring AoA Wild Child.



For collectors who can't find an original ashcan, this TPB is very cool, especially because the ashcan is printed in its entirety much larger - in full comic size and on high quality paper.