Sorry for bringing this up again, but this thread is 250 pages and skimming through it would take too damn long...
Other than Age of Apocalypse, any other good stories worth reading to get hyped up for this guy? He should be arriving in 2 weeks.
I don't remember if it was actually good but "The Twelve" storyline sticks in my head at least for the cool ideas... Apocalypse capturing the major X-Men, Wolverine as the Horseman Death, Cyclops' death which would affect him for years later into Grant Morison's run...it lead to Cable's finally becoming a full X-Man. As a villain Apoc will always have to lose in the end but he definitely didn't come out of that storyline in bad shape.
Other then that although it doesn't exactly feature Apocalypse, just about everything in Rick Rememder's X-For e is about Apocalypse and most of it is good.