First Look: Avengers Vs. X-Men #1 - The Return of Phoenix?

Man oh man. We've been seeing glimpses and teasers for AVENGERS VS. X-MEN. We saw a first look at issue #0. We've even seen a glimpse at the possible future courtesy of Cable in AVENGERS: X-SANCTION.

Today we have a look at the first issue. The Phoenix Force is on the way and everyone is pretty sure who it's going after. Things are about to get ugly.

This April, prepare for the biggest super hero war in comics history as Marvel is pleased to present your first look at Avengers Vs. X-Men #1! From the powerhouse creative team of Brian Michael Bendis, Jason Aaron, Matt Fraction, Jonathan Hickman, Ed Brubaker, John Romita Jr., Adam Kubert and Olivier Copiel comes a groundbreaking event pitting Earth’s Mightiest against the X-Men with the entire Marvel Universe at stake. Cyclops and his team believe the arrival of the Phoenix Force will save mutantkind, but Captain America is convinced it will destroy the world! But who is right? Don’t miss out on all the action inAvengers Vs. X-Men #1 in comic shops worldwide and on the Marvel Comics app this April!

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AVENGERS VS. X-MEN #1 (JAN120625)

Written by BRIAN MICHAEL BENDIS, JASON AARON, MATT FRACTION, JONATHAN HICKMAN, ED BRUBAKER

Art by JOHN ROMITA JR.

Colors by LAURA MARTIN

Cover by JIM CHEUNG

FOC – 2/27/12, ON SALE – 4/3/12

Bad art, mediocre writing, but I will check it out for sure!

It's going to be hilarious to see all the whining and complaining that will definitely come during this event. From the Marvel haters to the folks mad at the fight results, the comic boards should be prime comedy.

With that said, the art is much better than I was expecting. I'm looking forward to this.

Looking good! Can't wait until it all kicks off. Was a bit worried that JRJR was on it as his work has been a bit rough recently, but I'm digging it here!

yep...i like it!

ROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMIIIIIIIIITA.

FFS. I really don't understand why, he's worse than Liefeld, for real.

It would be quite the twist if The Phoenix Force wasn't after Hope and instead, going to someone else, not wanting to take her as a vessel or whatever.

I do not like Cyclops in this so far and I'm a fan of his. There are a few times he has been getting on my nerves lately.

They said the Pheonix Force is going for a Green Eyed Red Head.

Loving the are, this has me excited for AvX lets hope it isnt a let down

@JoseDRiveraTCR7: it's not that scott's a terrorist, but he's sounding more and more like a mutant supremecist every issue released. wanting more power, making sure the world is scared of the x-men, saying that mutants are supposed to be the next step in evolution, trying to kill the person responsible for the decimation... a number of things. he hasnt started attacking civilians yet... but he's trying to harvest the power of the pheonix. there's an agenda there. he may not be a terrorist, but he's becoming more and more like magneto with every new writer

Thats too much of a preview. Marvel should keep some stuff closer to its chest. I clicked this expecting a three page preview with no words.

Anyone else have a feeling Scott might push it to far during this series and that Utopia or Cyclops for whatever reason won't be around anymore.

@WolfMonkey said:

@JoseDRiveraTCR7: it's not that scott's a terrorist, but he's sounding more and more like a mutant supremecist every issue released. wanting more power, making sure the world is scared of the x-men, saying that mutants are supposed to be the next step in evolution, trying to kill the person responsible for the decimation... a number of things. he hasnt started attacking civilians yet... but he's trying to harvest the power of the pheonix. there's an agenda there. he may not be a terrorist, but he's becoming more and more like magneto with every new writer

Sadly, I can not help but agree.

@Mrfuzzynutz said:

I can't help but to think the Avengers would be vigilant of the threat but they would be working with the X-men to solve this together and then the conflict would be when they have to choose sides.

It looks like the Avengers try to do exactly that. Cap is seeking support from Wolverine and the X-Men in those panels. The problem is that the other X-Men led by Cyclops may have an agenda (harnessing the Phoenix Force to protect/promote mutant-kind) which prevents any real cooperation.

My biggest problem with this is that they are seemingly ignoring the fact that Jean had manifested the Phoenix during "New X-men" and had a handle over it.

Wolverine saying; "This thing killed Summers' girl". Wasn't it Xorn posing as Magneto?

Cyclops says "the last time we dealt with the Phoenix we were young and foolish..." Erm...no you were not. You were a senior staff member at the school and starting an affair with Emma Frost, you were all grown Cyke!

So, do Marvel just ignore what they like?

HE IS BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACK!!

@JoseDRiveraTCR7:

Except Cyclops has been acting more and more as an extremist and here he is supporting the return of the Phoenix.

HE IS BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACK!!

John Romita Jr. again? SERIOUSLY?! He is a talentless hack. There are so many amazing artists out there busting their asses for scraps and Marvel goes and hires JRJr. to RUIN another book. UNBELEIVEABLE... I was looking forward to this too, but now I can't support it. It really is a shame.

@Nev-man: I think by 'young and foolish' he's not saying a child, but less mature, priorities weren't straight etc.

@WolfMonkey: Wolverine on the other hand, is starting to seem like Xavier.

Still not a fan of JRJR, but at least it isn't as bad as Avengers. It's actually very tolerable. Still would've preferred someone else though.

Is romita jr. doing the art for the whole thing? I'm out. Will not be picking this up

of course cyclops is the bad guy once again -_-

I can't wait for this it looks so cool!!!!

I hope the X-Men win even though I don't like Cyclops' team that much but sometimes the Avengers are jerks (to say the least). Also the writing is good and the art is solid.

This hasn't even started yet an I am already sick of the haters. If you don't like it don't read it!

Scott does have a point though. No matter how they get rid of it, the Phoenix Force keeps coming back to earth for some strange reason. Its got to have some reason to repeatedly seeking a host from Earth when there's probably other suitable hosts for it out in the entire universe. And what can Hope really do to bring back the mutant population? I'm still trying to figure that out

@Arevish said:

HE IS BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACK!!

SHAZAM!!!

Oh wait.... sorry. Wrong guy.:)

@Ferro Vida said:

I like the art. That's probably the best work I have seen from JRJR.

This stuff reminds me of Civil War, which was a big mess from the first issue. Delays and the book barely had a plot. The first three issues had big things that fizzled out despite the fact that two of them were things that had never been done before. I swore I wouldn't read another big Marvel crossover. Look at Captain America and Iron Man on that first preview page. How do you go from friends who disagree, to bitter enemies who were friends, back to working together again like nothing happened? This just reminds me of that thing. Not to mention they had two big characters return, then not turn out to be who they thought they were. One of thems right there. Captain Mar-Vell himself. Who had a one-shot come out and then later you found out it wasn't him at all. Just like Thor. So, it had better be him if they want to retain any shred of credibility.

Also, it's all about the New Avengers. I haven't read the X-Men in a while, but I've always gone back to reading it. The problem now is that their book is so affected by what goes on in the Avengers books there was barely a point of having an X-Men team because all the mutants were gone. More or less. Because of what happened in the Avengers books. I'm not even going to ask why Namor is there.

Hey, anyone read Aquaman recently? Good stuff. You see they make jokes about him talking to fish. It's funny.

As for JRJR, I was looking through an old Spider-man comic he did in the 90s and really enjoyed it. His art had flair and it was inked well with good colors. Spider-man was a guy named Ben Reilly and was single and he was awesome. Like everyone else, he (JRJR) has probably felt his time grow short with his personal life and professional life, so he draws real fast and that's how it came out. I don't think he's a bad artist. i could tell what was going on and that's important.

Hey, did Collosus shave his head? Weird.

Will I buy this. I don't know. Maybe.:)

@xerox_kitty said:

The Avengers want to stop Phoenix? Last time it was the X-Men who wanted to kill Wanda...

This is House of M part two. Wake me when it's over.

Continues whistling tune

*When Septembeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeer ends*

@jaredbright: Is that really him ? Finally the real him,is that cover real?

Did I just see Mar-vell, I know that it wasn't Genis-Vell/ I hope that this is the real Captain Marvel on the AVX cover, and I hope they keep him alive.