Avengers vs. X-Men: 2012 Event

[Art_of_Crime]

If there is going to be a body count, which I kind of doubt, who would you like to see on it?

 

[Anubis]

Gambit

 

[Art_of_Crime]

Anubis your avatar is kind of hypnotic.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Also, Wolverine should be fighting himself.

The Phoenix Force should dimension-hop over to wherever dead gods go and reincarnate Thor as its new host. Then Thor could show up and be like, "Thou silly mortal b****es. Dost thou decide to fight each other over nothing every time I die now? Be that what is hot in yon streets?"

 

[Havok83]

Speaking of Hope, did we ever find out who the hell she is or did Marvel pretty much just drop that whole mystery?

She's the first child born after M-Day to Louise Spalding and an unamed father. Thats the extent of what Marvel has revealed. What her connection to the Phoenix Force and who her father is, is still a mystery. I still think she's a lost Phoenix fragment come to life. I hope they will FINALLY answer these questions with this arc since the PF will be playing a role

 

[Raiden]

Since Phoenix Force will be the major catalyst that made both Avengers and X-Men fight each other, I'll be disappointed if Marvel doesn't use this opportunity to bring back Jean Grey. She's one of the dead Marvel superheroes that I hope will return in the near future, Wasp/Janet Pym is another.

 

[Anubis]

I also hope jean comes back in this.....then dies.....along with Gambit.

 

[kguillou]

Eh, I kinda feel like they should just let Jean rest in peace. Don't bring her back. If she was brought back, you just know that Cyclops is going to get all worked up about her all over again and then we'll have that same old Wolverine/Cyclops/Jean love triangle and then some writer is going to do yet ANOTHER Phoenix story with Jean and so on and so forth. I feel like her story's been told, Cyclops has moved on, Wolvie has moved on, the X-men have moved on. I say let's move past her. But hey, thats just my opinion.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Since Phoenix Force will be the major catalyst that made both Avengers and X-Men fight each other, I'll be disappointed if Marvel doesn't use this opportunity to bring back Jean Grey. She's one of the dead Marvel superheroes that I hope will return in the near future, Wasp/Janet Pym is another.

Or better yet, the Wasp comes back as the Phoenix! The Phoenix Wasp! Flaming Hornet? Uh... Firebug? Whatever, it'd be awesome.

 

[Hypestyle]

If there is going to be a body count, which I kind of doubt, who would you like to see on it?

Magneto.. Kang..

 

[Anubis]

F**k that, Kang stil needs to recover from what Bendis did to him.

 

[Spider-Nerd]

We're going to get 12 issues of a **** ton of wolverine, pete just along for the ride, and scott looking like a *****e. Oh boy.

Having said that I'm sure I'll give it a shot if for no other reason to see what Beast/Pete/Logan end up doing.

 

[runawayboulder]

Along with The Children's Crusade, this will be about 17 straight months of Avengers vs. X-Men.

 

[Spider-Vader]

I heard a theory that Scarlet Witch will take the Phoenix Force to save Hope & that she'll end up dying...again. I could see that happening.

 

[Ipodman]

I'll wait for the Hardcover

 

[kguillou]

How far along is Avengers Crusade? Been dying to read it but I'm trade waiting it....i can't wait any longer though! lol

 

[JewishHobbit]

The last issue comes out in January I believe.

 

[hippie_hunter]

Bleeding Cool is reporting that Marvel is going light with the tie-ins to Avengers vs. X-Men, primarily focusing them on Uncanny X-Men, Wolverine & the X-Men, Avengers, and New Avengers. Plus a few tie-in minis like a Front Line/Embedded/The Home Front equivalent. Books like Uncanny X-Force, New Mutants, Thor, etc. will not be involved.

 

[JewishHobbit]

That's not so bad being that I read those already anyhow. We'll see what the additional tie-ins will be. I try to skip as many of those types of possible.... but this is X-Men... and Avengers. Chances are every one of them will intrigue me.

 

[Drz]

Axel Alonso talks Avengers vs. X-Men

Axel Alonso: Not really. The five writers involved in this event -- Brian Bendis, Jason Aaron, Matt Fraction, Jonathan Hickman and Ed Brubaker -- are all invested in this story and none of them are strangers to doing stories of incredible scope. While the overall story was workshopped by the entire group -- with ["Avengers" writer] Brian [Bendis] and ["X-Men: Schism" writer] Jason [Aaron] playing leading roles in the specific plotting of the story, each issue will be written by one of these writers, each of whom will bring their unique voice to that chapter. Brian writes "AvX" and it feels like a Brian Bendis comic, not a comic written by committee.

Well i certainly hope this doesn't mean someone say Matt Fraction gets to write characters as *****és again, but glad to hear the writers are still allowed to somehow keep their own distinct voices.

Alonso: When you're doing a story as huge as "AvX," big questions emerge -- like, "Will Wolverine and Cyclops going to put aside their differences and unite a common foe?" That's the type of question that will divide fans, and it does the same thing will us. At least initially. See, it's our job to wrestle through those tough questions and come to a conclusion. To commit. That's what we do in our summits. It's not always pretty, but it works for us. [Laughs]

Well isn't the answer regarding Wolverine a No? Why else would Cable want to murder Wolverine? the Avengers Sanction is happening because Cable wants to prevent this, and Wolverine is one of his main targets.

Alonso: "AvX" is 12 issues long, shipping bi-weekly over six months, so it's going to have a lot inertia. Every two weeks, you get a new chapter of the story; every two months, you get a game-changing twist that escalates the stakes. Each Act will feature one double-sized issue and there will be a prologue -- "AvX" #0 -- by Brian, Jason and Frank Cho.

So each Artist gives 1 oversized issue, will they charge 3.99$ or 4.99$ from that? Will the rest be 20 pages for 3.99$?

Second, "AvX" will feature far fewer tie-ins than we've done in the past. We're limiting them to ongoing books that directly tie into the Avengers and X-Men franchises, and we're being very conservative. We have one standalone tie-in series -- the high concept for which is completely brilliant -- and we'll be announcing it soon. The title says it all.

Again they talk about no tie-ins, but then again we already know they're double shipping like crazy, so if say April has again 2x New Avengers, thats pretty much the same as 1xNew Avenger and 1 Tie in lol.

Spidey616 chimed in with another hot topic, wondering "Between 'Avengers Vs. X-Men' and the recent news that Bendis will be stepping down from Avengers in 2012, curious where his Age of Ultron storyline with Bryan Hitch falls into place in relation to AvX?"

Alonso: Brian and Bryan's "Age of Ultron" story is not related at all to "AvX," but it's still happening. We're just not ready to say anything more than that at the moment.

I'm guessing Age of Ultron is Bendis' conclusion to his Avengers run, i wonder how much focus Moon Knight has, now that his ongoing might get canceled after #12. He had good focus on the Avengers point one issue Bendis and Hitch did.

 

[JewishHobbit]

Alonso: "AvX" is 12 issues long, shipping bi-weekly over six months, so it's going to have a lot inertia. Every two weeks, you get a new chapter of the story; every two months, you get a game-changing twist that escalates the stakes. Each Act will feature one double-sized issue and there will be a prologue -- "AvX" #0 -- by Brian, Jason and Frank Cho.

Great, so not only are they double shipping most their line, and also this event... now they're going to charge an extra dollar or two for a few of the double sized issues.

 

[ripse]

Can't wait the story how can Avengers Vs X-men?....yea this just more fantasy idea

 

[venom892]

Bleeding Cool is reporting that Marvel is going light with the tie-ins to Avengers vs. X-Men, primarily focusing them on Uncanny X-Men, Wolverine & the X-Men, Avengers, and New Avengers. Plus a few tie-in minis like a Front Line/Embedded/The Home Front equivalent. Books like Uncanny X-Force, New Mutants, Thor, etc. will not be involved.

Exactly what I was hoping for.Now I can completely ignore this thing.

 

[Hypestyle]

hopefully some major villains get killed for once instead of heroes..

 

[kguillou]

Well if you think about it...who's left to kill off on the hero side?