This Issue Avengers VS X-Men and The Winter Soldier
The much heralded AVX has arrived. That’s Avengers Verse X-Men for those not in
the know. So far we had the freebie
number zero and issue number one. Well
It wasn’t all what I suspected to be but considering who one of the writers are
I thought it might be subpar. With that said I did find the overall story to
be in the least interesting.
It all centers on the Phoenix Force returning to
Earth. OK. Not being a regular reader of
the X books this has me at a loop plus the fact that Jean Grey is yet once
again dead. Apparently it is coming for
Hope Summers who is Cyclops daughter from the future. She is also the one to bring balance to the
mutants or something like that. Got all
that. Good there might be a test later
on. Apparently The Avengers want to
prevent the Phoenix Force from returning and have found some residual Phoenix
Force in Hope and want to isolate her. Well that’s when the fights begin and
that is where issue one ends.
Well I thought it was pretty good even though I didn’t
have much of a clue as to what was going on on the X-Men side of things. I thought the way that they got the two
groups to come to blows was pretty good and at least they didn’t go with the
mind take over or something lame like that.
But knowing that this is a Marvel event time will tell if they find a
way to screw things up. Surprisingly a really good start to Avengers VS
X-Men by Marvel Comics and hopefully it continues.
Sticking with Marvel if you are not reading Ed Brubaker’s
Winter Soldier then you are missing out.
This book is pretty good and it focuses on Bucky (Who is the Winter
Soldier) and the Black Widow. It is a
pretty good espionage and cloak and dagger type of a book that is written really
well and the first arc with Dr Doom is pretty good. The art by Butch Guice is
pretty good also and helps capture the feel that the book is trying to convay
as being dark and gritty. Plus Lee Bermejo’s covers are awesome also so catch
up with this book it is worth it.
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