Ray's Reviews > Avengers vs. X-Men

With Avengers vs. X-Men, you get what you pay for. It's the Godzilla vs. Kong of comics, all you need to know is right in the title, with a bunch of Avengers fighting a bunch of X-Men!

The plot isn't that ambitious, something about the Phoenix and how hard mutants have had it lately. It's really just a pretext for the battles which begins quickly in the first issue.

Lots of different writers and artists, definitely an editorial decree kind of event, but somehow it flows pretty naturally. I was never a fan of Bendis's edgy Avengers by the way, but this comic did come out back in 2012 when the movie thing started taking off and the Avengers do feel like the flagship core of Marvel. Within the X-Men, there's the classic Wolverine and Cyclops rivalry that takes center stage. Captain America and Iron Man get plenty of focus on the other side, and it's genuinely surprising as well as fun to see how various combinations of characters from across the universe interact with each other.

Comparisons might be made to the Civil War from a few years prior, but that storyline was trying to be relevant and have something real to say about the political-societal implications of superheroes. Avengers vs. X-Men just isn't that.

There's the main miniseries tells the story from a big picture perspective, with all the fun strategies and emotional drama. For more of the fights, there were a lot of spinoffs to read because y'know it's a comic book crossover event. Personally, AVX where Thing punches Gambit or whatever isn't as interesting to me.

The resolution was a big deal and impactful, for a while, until it faded into a new status quo as all these things do. Yet I am still re-reading it nearly a decade later and it's very enjoyable for what it is.

And lastly, no I don't think it would be a good idea for a movie. This only works in one medium, IMHO...