You may be nominally cognizant that Marvel Comics is currently publishing a Big Comic Book Event ( BCBE ) wherein the Avengers ( think Captain America , Iron Man ) assiduously trade punch with the X - homo ( Cyclops , Storm ) with the clockwork geometrical regularity of a daily fibre supplementary . And like most BCBEs , the plot of this 12 - part miniseries — which is helpfully titled Avengers Vs . X - Men — fans out over almost every other Marvel superhero funnies like a Portuguese homo oxygen ’ war .
The simple existence of Avengers Vs . tenner - hands is n’t surprising . BCBEs move a lot of shiny composition in an era when 97 % of your ordinary reader ’s attention duet is devoted to photos of hombre wearing lettuce slices as Renaissance chapeau . ( Why do you thinkWatchmenis coming back ? )
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Those splashy superpeople may get the young folk doing that Scooby Doo Aeonium haworthii - wooden leg run to the multiplex , but when Captain America is print on a dead tree and saddled with years of history ( did you knowCap watched Richard Nixon commit suicide ? ) , the kid go back to sexting andanal beer bongingand not knowing what an encyclopedia is .
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But Avengers Vs . cristal - valet is some next degree shit . After Marvel ’s last BCBE — Fear Itself , a story about Thor fighting the Hulk and some B - listing bad guys possessed by olde Norse hammers — trade fine but failed to ignite the ardor in people ’s pubic region , the publishing firm streamlined the BCBE to an dead virtuoso academic degree .
It ’s like they cut all of the superhero deconstruction ballyhoo out ofCivil Warand replace it with Red Bull and fortified wine-coloured . AvX is either A. ) pop paragon ; or B. ) one of the most deeply moronic comics I ’ve ever translate in my living . I have n’t decide which .
Since review single issue of serialized strip can be blood-related to reviewing dailyMark Trailstrips , this is a general overview of the first three issuance of Avengers Vs . ecstasy - Men and some of the association - in stories in other comics . Some spoilers in the lead .
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In a nutshell , the Phoenix Force — that all - powerful cosmic that possessed deceased X - Woman Jean Grey — is caroming back to Earth to either :
1 . ) Destroy the planet — Wolverine and Captain America are of this mind — or
2 . ) Usher in a bold fresh mutant Renascence . Or some woozy whimsy about cosmic spiritual rebirth . The X - Men ’s leader Cyclops believes this , because the XTC - Men inhabit in San Francisco now , brah . ( banknote : Professor Xavier has been on the sideline of the 10 - Men strip for year now , maintaining a frozen yoghurt stand or something . )
Given that 99 % of the time the Phoenix leans toward “ destroying the Earth ” than “ improving the public school system ” side of the spectrum , we immediately side with the Avengers . Unless you ’re the kind of lector who really dig those “ divine piano histrion ” and “ magic Bob Dylan song ” narration pulse from time of year 4 of Battlestar Galactica . Cyclops is your guy , then .
So the Avengers ( all eleventy - seven of them ) hop in their flying battlewagon and travel to the X - Men ’s island in the Bay to say , “ Hey , can we talk to Hope , your 10 - mate ? We think that bird on fire on her head is a signaling of the apocalypse . ”
When Captain America down , he and water flea now start acting like the Lockhorns . Captain America behave disturbingly upbeat in the face of day of reckoning — the Marvel Universe faces the end times every other Tuesday , after all — whereas water flea use more crinkly Gravy system of logic . The Sentinel of Liberty is civilized , but because we need an exculpation to get to the punching , he optic nail Cap .
That ’s only the first egress of Avengers Vs . X - man . Now , there ’s no guarantee the reader will nibble up the linkup - in titles ( like Avengers proper ) or previous story job ( like the ex - Men arcSecond Coming ) , so the overall effect for this event is apocalyptic window fertilization → backtalk service to ideologic conflict → characters overreact → fisticuffs .
The second issue is more or less the ecstasy - Men hit Avengers , and the third issue is half Captain America and Wolverine ( now ) fight , half the superheroes going on a scavenger Holman Hunt ( where more one - on - one wrestling will unfold ) .
In short , this comic is a penstock for superhero competitiveness , and the inspired part is it unapologetically does not give a fuck . For a thwartwise - average equivalence , it ’s like if NBC suddenly rebranded themselves wholesale as “ The Boobs and Butts Channel . ” Or as Videodrome ! Sure , fights are the selling period of all BCBEs , but Avengers Vs . X - Men pare it down in a path that we have n’t see the 1984 miniseries Secret Wars . And that was written to sell miniature .
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There are moments of genuine artistry on display . It ’s wondrous to see Walt Simonson puff Thor in Avengers . Jason Aaron ’s hand for Wolverine and the X - Men are immensely fun , and his conflict between Magneto and Iron Man in theside series AVX : VSwas some rollicking fight porno ( Iron Man = Carbon Nanotube Man ! ) in a variety of fight porn .
Marvel tells us about AVX VS , a comic entirely about 10 - Men clobbering Avengers ( and vice versa )
And on this aforesaid mystery smorgasbord , Avengers Vs . tenner - Men is candy , but it ’s expensive confect , like earthnut - flavored Laffy Taffy . At $ 48 for 12 core issues at $ 4 a pop , I feel like an unidentified interlocutor should be in the aloofness chanting “ SHOTS ! SHOTS ! SHOTS ! ” whenever I buy a copy .
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