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AVENGERS VS. X-MEN #4 (OF 12)

• All across the globe—in the Savage Land, in Wakanda, in Tabula Rasa and more—Avenger battles X-Man for the fate of the world!

• Hope has a suicide mission to propose to Wolverine!

• While in space, the Avengers’ away team meets the Phoenix head on!

Story by Jonathan Hickman
Art by John Romita Jr.
Cover by Jim Cheung, Mark Bagley, Jerome Opeña, & Dean White

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  1. Avatar photo KenOchalek says:
    May 14, 2012 at 1:13 pm

    While I’m not 100% into this event just yet (it’s perfectly enjoyable and fun, but not mind-blowing), I really enjoy the fact that it comes out bi-weekly. I’m excited to read Hickman’s take on a lot of these characters!

    • Avatar photo sitara119 says:
      May 14, 2012 at 1:33 pm

      i have polorized opinions/criticisms regarding hickman’s work. i’ve never seen him work with this characters and i have to admit, i really curious to see what he does.
      i, too, am not a 100% into this. bendis’ and brubaker’s issues were good. aaron’s (and, premature as it may be, i’m betting fraction’s) is best served as toilet paper.
      to me, hickman’s the only wild card. oddly i have a good feeling about him.
      ugh….feelings.

    • Avatar photo sitara119 says:
      May 14, 2012 at 1:34 pm

      *polarized*

  2. Avatar photo misterckent says:
    May 14, 2012 at 1:55 pm

    I’ve only read one issue. However, I’ve really been enjoying this. The team ups and the conflicts are a ton of fun. In fact, that was my favorite part about the Avengers movie. All the various pair ups are so much fun!

  3. Avatar photo BCDX97 says:
    May 14, 2012 at 1:56 pm

    After issues 0 and 1 I was totally pumped for this event! I was all ready to give Marvel another chance.

    Now a short time later I’m bummed, feel like most of the crossover issues have been worthless, and don’t know if I even want to read this anymore.

    • Avatar photo sitara119 says:
      May 14, 2012 at 2:36 pm

      do what i do. only read the main event and say FUCK the tie-ins.

    • Avatar photo MadCowDzz">MadCowDzz (@DarylFritz) says:
      May 14, 2012 at 4:17 pm

      I have also been skipping the tie-ins. Sounds like I haven’t been missing anything.

    • Avatar photo Neeks says:
      May 14, 2012 at 5:06 pm

      Na the wolverine and the x-men tie ins have been great, secret avengers so far not so much

    • Avatar photo BCDX97 says:
      May 14, 2012 at 9:43 pm

      Wolverine and the X-Men is the one tie-in book I have really liked

    • Avatar photo gatorbot (@slowwc) says:
      May 16, 2012 at 12:49 pm

      Definitely pick up Wolverine and the X-Men #10. There is a great walk-and-talk scene with Wolverine and Cyclops that you shouldn’t miss.

    • Runaway13 says:
      May 17, 2012 at 1:09 pm

      The tie-ins arent worth it. I’m not going to buy 10 comics that I normally don’t read just to understand what’s going on in one book. The only AVX tie- in I’m getting is Avengers Academy because I always get that every month. Same with the court of owls. I only read 2 bat related book and am not buying ten others just for the sake of The Night of owls or whatever it’s called. The only good crossover out right now is The Culling.

  4. Avatar photo CaseyJustice says:
    May 14, 2012 at 3:34 pm

    This continues to be good fun. Looking forward to more.

  5. Avatar photo TheRealVenom says:
    May 14, 2012 at 4:27 pm

    Its fun but still nothing of the scope of Civil War.
    Honestly, marvel, Please let Dan Slott write next years big event himself! Guy is so under rated. Spider Island was stellar.

  6. Avatar photo comicBOOKchris says:
    May 14, 2012 at 4:35 pm

    Kinda looking forward to this. I feel that the only writer to really take advantage of the format and deliver a balls out fun issue so far was Aaron’s #2 issue, so let’s hope that this is on the same caliber.

  7. Avatar photo Flash923 says:
    May 14, 2012 at 4:57 pm

    I have always been a DCU fanatic and they will always be number #1 to me until the day comes where they really screw up their entire universe and kill off all of their great characters. Now with that being said; Marvel has always been #2 and that’s mainly because they were the only other comic book company I really knew of until my high school years. By this point mini-series and maxi-series really started to become the new thing and continue on until today where there has been some questionable events, series or what ever you wanna call them. I will say this takes me back to the more inocent times of the events, mini’s and/or maxi’s whatever you want to call them. I really like this event especailly after that whole Fear Itself pile of dung!! I am sorry if there were folks out there that enjoyed that maxi, I just tought it was poorly done from point A to B and I promice I will never use or mention it again for any reason from here on out!! I like that the plot is simple and has some small amount of mystery and a lot of straight up brute action. That’s what has brought me to reading many comic books over the years! I will also had thought that characters like The HUlk, Cap, Iron Man, Spider Man, Thor, Hawkeye, Black Window and some other characters seem way different then all of the other characters at Marvel and almost seem like they no longer fit with them and their mutants!! I say Marvel should sell DC those characters and they can keep their damn mutants, those X-Men!! I also think Hope is not the true target of the Pheonix and Wolvie just ay have his chance at killing someone real soon and it won’t be the kid!!

    AVENGERS by two!!

    K

  8. mathiasriffman says:
    May 14, 2012 at 9:41 pm

    My enthusiasm for this has yet to wane. Can’t wait!

  9. Avatar photo T.G.Rogers says:
    May 15, 2012 at 12:39 am

    Have you guys seen the “No More Avengers.” teaser yet?!
    Man, it gave me chills!

    • Avatar photo Flash923 says:
      May 15, 2012 at 9:48 am

      AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
      I seen tit’ and it is pretty damn scarey, and then there’s the new Deadpool gonna clear everyone off of the Marvel Universe too huh??

      Look out Avengers!!

      K

  10. Chocobavits says:
    May 15, 2012 at 4:58 pm

    Hey Marvel I have a good event idea. I want the Marvel zomies to get into the regular 616. With The Walking Dead so popular, now is the perfect time.

  11. Avatar photo chadwhitley says:
    May 16, 2012 at 8:58 am

    I’ve never really been into Marvel, though not for lack of trying–I always felt lost when trying to nose my way into the universe. Even when titles have relaunched at #1, I often feel so adrift that I leave Marvel books by issue #3 or so. Case in point: the recent launch of Wolverine and the X-Men and relaunch of Uncanny X-Men. I realize I’m in the minority, but I didn’t find the former all that funny, and the latter still left me confused. And forget about the Avengers, whose history is far too convoluted for me to figure out.

    Odd, then, that I’m actually enjoying an event featuring both the X-Men and the Avengers. Yes, there are characters with which I am unfamiliar, and no, I don’t understand everything that’s happening, but you know what? It’s fun. Like, big action scene, summer popcorn movie fun. I miss that in comics, and I’m glad to have found it here.

  12. Avatar photo AquaPimp82 says:
    May 16, 2012 at 5:40 pm

    Meh.

  13. Avatar photo Mono0521 says:
    May 16, 2012 at 8:20 pm

    Why is Wolverine so up Cap’s ass? Cap just kick his ass and still. I was happy to see what Cyclops did to him. Wolverine is the biggest D-bag in AvsX.

    • Avatar photo iroberts007 says:
      May 16, 2012 at 8:40 pm

      Wolverines from a broken home mono.. cut him some slack. Plus hes beating cap in the number of girl friends that have been brutally murdered game… so he may just be a little bitter. And hes short.. lets not forget the little mans inferiority complex. Hes a short, orphaned, widower.. youd be pissed too. Plus after living for a hundred years.. dealing with people would definitely get way older than old. Whats caps story? Cap spent 60 years in a block of ice. What can i say Ignorance is bliss.

    • Avatar photo Mono0521 says:
      May 16, 2012 at 8:50 pm

      So Logan is done taking crap from Cyclops and now takes it for Cap… I got it.

    • Avatar photo KenOchalek says:
      May 16, 2012 at 9:56 pm

      I think Logan is just truly and profoundly freaked out by The Phoenix, so he’s going to suck up his pride and do whatever he thinks it will take to stop it, even if that means he has to take crap from Cap.

  14. Avatar photo sitara119 says:
    May 16, 2012 at 8:49 pm

    the first 2 pages were awesome. the remaining 18 were dull as hell.
    seriously, i was bored outa my mind.
    you’d think captain america would have a magneto-like helmet or at least a mask lined with the same material to keep emma outa his head. instead he looks like a total ameturer. how are you gonna accomplish your objective if you let them read your thoughts?
    and logan was all gung ho to kill hope, but then the first chance he gets(like 20 min later) he calls cap. i was really excited to see logan on his own for a while. not knowing who would get to her first added a layer of suspense that has been stripped away now.
    for me to enjoy this event, i would have to convince myself that the characters are idiotic, convictionless flip-flops who seem to be having identity crises.
    this might be my stop.

  15. Avatar photo Firevine says:
    May 17, 2012 at 3:20 am

    Really enjoying this series. While JRJR’s art was weaker than his norm on the prior issues, it seemed he stepped it back up on this one. Still looks rushed with a few wonky spots towards the end, but far better than the previous three.

  16. Avatar photo cubman987 says:
    May 17, 2012 at 10:09 am

    So far I’m really liking this as well as the tie-ins I’ve read…thought JRJR was much better in this issue, and I didn’t think it was that bad before.

  17. Runaway13 says:
    May 17, 2012 at 1:35 pm

    I understand that Marvel is a buissiness but I also feel that profit was put before quality on this comic. I feel that this comics only porpouse is to see the Avengers fight the X- men and not to deliver a enjoyable and fun story and I feel that this may be my last issue.

  18. Avatar photo mithrandir says:
    May 17, 2012 at 2:18 pm

    This issue might have saved this event for me. I was pretty disappointed after the last issue. Thanks Hickman!

  19. jmo says:
    May 17, 2012 at 2:52 pm

    OK seriously I have to say it. There are no polar bears in Antartica. Polar bears are only found in the Arctic.

  20. Avatar photo dear earthling says:
    May 17, 2012 at 3:03 pm

    I thought this was a fun read. I don’t expect this to be great anymore, so now I can just enjoy it. Warts and all.

  21. Avatar photo psynetrix says:
    May 17, 2012 at 5:22 pm

    The art was better in this issue, but the writing was meh; if anything, there were 7 or 8 pages worth of story, the rest was fluff. The tie-ins are way, way out of synch with the main title. When is “Wolverine and the X-Men #10” happening, can anyone tell? And the whole fight between Cap and Wolverine last issue was for nothing. This event is giving me a serious headache. The only thing that will make it even worse is another alternate reality a la House of M, so I guess that’s what’s coming next.

    Please check my mini-review here:

    http://bit.ly/JTIwwR

    Comments and feedback are always welcome!

    • Avatar photo dear earthling says:
      May 18, 2012 at 3:08 pm

      Yeah, this is all sorts of mixed up. It’d be nice if there was some sort of reading order list or something. Ugh.

    • Avatar photo KenOchalek says:
      May 21, 2012 at 8:02 am

      As I understand it, Wolverine and the X-Men 10 took place between AVX #2 and #3. After the fight on Utopia in #2, but before the Avengers Assemble at the tower in NYC in #3. So Wolverine had time to go back to Westchester, check in, and run into Scott before getting the call to head to NYC, get on the plane with Cap, and then get stranded in Antarctica.

      And the Wolverine/Cap fight may or may not have been contrived, but wasn’t for nothing. It isolated Wolverine so Hope could show up and have a chance to reason with him.

      So far, Wolverine has represented a third path in regards to Hope — Scott wants to let the Phoenix use her to save mutantkind (his evidence for this? I dunno), Cap wants to lock her up so the Phoenix can’t get to her (like that’ll work). Logan on the other hand just wants to kill her before anything happens — good or bad. The fight with Cap gets him in a position where he can follow that path without any outside influences (Scott or Cap), and as we saw in this issue… he couldn’t do it.

  22. Avatar photo comicBOOKchris says:
    May 17, 2012 at 8:39 pm

    Without a doubt, the best issue since Aaron’s. Hickman can be a great storyteller who truly utilizes the comic medium to tell a story, as opposed to just using dialog. Plus, like Aaron, he embraced the fun nature of this story and truly let loose.

  23. Avatar photo Flash923 says:
    May 18, 2012 at 11:06 am

    This like I have been saying is a classic comic book maxi series, the plot is so simple and you know what they say keep it simple stupid. I agree with that statement, there is no reason for everytime there is an event to go all deep and mysterious. The only twist I see is that I still do not think the Phoenix is after Hope and to me that would make sense. Just a nice series right now and I hope it stays in this format.

    K

    • Avatar photo Flash923 says:
      May 18, 2012 at 11:08 am

      Oh and Wolvie with the Bear skin and beer, seemed so primitive even for him but; I liked it and made me laugh a little. Hope is really starting to buy into this appears and she is gonna be very suprised I think.

      K

  24. Avatar photo gatorbot (@slowwc) says:
    May 18, 2012 at 4:07 pm

    I’m surprised that Wolvie didn’t have any words with Cap about getting pushed out of a plane. Loved the polar bear scene. And yes, in the real world, polar bears don’t live in Antarctica. But on Earth-616 they do, of course. Can we just agree that should be canon now?

  25. Avatar photo BCDX97 says:
    May 18, 2012 at 10:19 pm

    I couldn’t take it anymore. I passed on all the AVX books this week. I went in with high hopes and really enjoyed issues 0 and 1. But just a short time later I went from happy to disappointed to annoyed to hating it.

    I like the Marvel characters, I like the Marvel movies (Avengers was great), I like the Marvel toys, some of the Marvel video games. But I just don’t like the vast majority of the Marvel books right now. And I really did want to like this but paying $4 for 20 pages of fluff just left me bummed out.

  26. Avatar photo BronxRonin says:
    May 18, 2012 at 10:54 pm

    I was going to pick it up but i’m kinda confused on which are the main books…not interested reading the side books.I’m not sure which to buy anymore. I’ll wait i guess.

  27. Avatar photo WillupsBrighton says:
    May 20, 2012 at 3:42 pm

    I knew this was the issue written by Hickman without even paying attention to the name on the cover. You could tell just by the hella complicated intro page.

    I like that it had a lot of balls in the air though, made it interesting. They should have let Hickman write this entire series.

  28. Avatar photo Limitless says:
    July 13, 2012 at 8:08 pm

    Today I bought a variant copy of this signed. The trouble is, I can’t for the life of me figure out who signed it. It’s driving me nuts.

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