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AvX: The Intimate Cost of War

New Avengers #24 courtesy Marvel.com

  I just read New Avengers #24. Avengers vs. X-Men is the epic. AvX: Vs is all fights. I think New Avengers (and the other X-Men, Avengers tie-ins) will have the emotion and intimacy.

  The majority of issue #24 is the day before Captain America leads a team to confront Cyclops on Utopia. There are moments of great emotional power with Luke Cage and Jessica Jones. The couple confront their conflicting roles as heroes and parents. I’ve enjoyed how Brian Michael Bendis has written Luke and Jessica. Marvel’s most romantic and engaging couple is once again challenged by their responsibilities as heroes.

  As we count down to the end of the Bendis Avengers era, I think Luke and Jessica may be my favorite of his many contributions to the Avengers legacy.

By Editor

 

AvX Before the War

Uncanny X-Men #10 courtesy Marvel

  Avengers Vs. X-Men #1 is out. War is declared. This week sees the final X-Men/Avengers team-up before the conflict in this week’s Uncanny X-Men #10.

  I sure hope the X-Men survive AvX so they can face Unit again. In last issue, the android triggered a prison break and unleashed an arm of escape alien criminals on earth. Writer Kieron Gillen calls Unit a cross “between C3PO and Hannibal Lecter.”

He’s created what I think could be the next great X foe in their extensive gallery of enemies. I think of him as the possible Ultron for the X-Men.

uncanny X-Men #9 interior art of UNIT courtesy Marvel
 

Marvel’s Gambit Teaser

 

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  Looks like Remy LeBeau will star in his own solo series again. Marvel revealed this teaser simply saying Gambit August 2012 with the promise of an announcement Sunday, April 15th at the Next Big Thing panel at C2E2.This comes on the heels of the teaser for a Matt Fraction/David Aja reunion project also to be announced at C2E2.The Cajun X-Man is part of X-Men Legacy. Rogue spurned him for Magneto even though he and Rogue joined Wolverine’s Jean Grey School. Christos Gage has been writing a slow burning attraction between Remy and Frenzy – I really hope that continues. Gambit is also on Marjorie Liu’s Astonishing X-Men title. Who know what will happen post AvX.

This Geek’s Take: I’d like to see Rick Remender take on Gambit. The writer of Uncanny X-Force and Secret Avengers knows how to write anti-heroes in the Marvel underworld. I really love what Remender is doing with Fantomex. I’d almost enjoy seeing Gambit kicked out of the X-Men and go solo and return to his old ways as a thief and con man.

Update: I had a great suggestion of a team by a Twitter follower: Skottie Young & Clay Mann of Magneto, Not a Hero.

By Editor

Top 5 Picks 4/11/14

America’s Got Powers #1 It’s the biggest television in the world where you can watch supepowered teens compete for fame and fortune. A young man dreaming of being the greatest hero uncovers the dark truth of the competition. This is superstar artist Bryan Hitch’s first big project (with British comedian/writer Jonathan Ross) after a decade at Marvel.

Avenging Spider-Man #6 courtesy Marvel.com

Avenging Spider-Man #6 The Omega Effect begins here. 3 big Marvel icons (Spidey, Daredevil, Punisher) and two legendary writers (Mark Waid, Greg Rucka) in a crossover. A secret that could destroy the big crime families and change the balance of power in the Marvel Universe.

Batman Arkham Unhinged #1 Based on the hit videogame Batman: Arkham City, explore the world of the game. A twisted tale of Catwoman, Two-Face and Huge Strange. Three of Batman’s foes on a collision course in Arkham City.

New Avengers #24 AVX Captain America declares war on the X-Men. Which side will Wolverine choose? Will he stick with them?

Saga #2 Against the backdrop of galactic war, two enemy soliders fell in love and tried to escape endless conflict. Marko and Alana are on the run with their newborn with a squad of killers on their trail.

Marvel Teases Fraction & Aja Reunion Project

 

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  Marvel revealed that Matt Fraction and David Aja will reunite on a new series to be revealed April 14th at the Cup of C.B. Panel at C2E2. The duo (along with Ed Brubaker) worked on the Immortal Iron Fist.

  Could this new project be a new Iron Fist series in the aftermath of Avengers Vs. X-Men? During this epic Danny Rand’s connection to the Phoenix Force will be explored.

  I’d love to see the team create a new Doctor Strange solo series. Fraction’s The Defenders featuring Strange and Iron Fist is a blast.

 

The Avengers Secret Weapons

Marvel's The Avengers courtesy Marvel

  A God. A Super Soldier. A Genius in a High-Tech Suit of Armor. But Earth’s Mightiest Heroes need more than just the big guns to get it done. When the Avengers need stealth and razor-sharp focus – they can count on Black Widow and Hawkeye.

  Jeremy Renner and Scarlett Johansson play the Avengers born without super powers but are still power players on a mission. The two stars are featured in a new interview on Marvel.com

“We are humans with high skill sets,” Renner said. “[Hawkeye and Black Widow] fight well together…and they complement each other.”

“Both of us fight hand-to-hand…but we’re fighting in a different way than everybody else. We do a lot of fighting on the ground,” added Johansson.

For the entire story here’s the Marvel.com link.

In the comics, Hawkeye and Black Widow are currently starring in Rick Remender’s Secret Avengers. Hawkeye leads the covert team. Both characters will appear in Avengers Vs. X-Men and AvX: Vs.

Beast Unleashed!

 

Wolverine and the X-Men #8 courtesy Marvel

  Logan is trying to teach young mutants at the Jean Grey School. In Wolverine and the X-Men #8 the Hellfire Club King gets a crash course in killing courtesy of Professor Sabretooth. The killer’s tutelage of Kade Kilgore is brutal, bloody and leads to a frightening kidnapping. Odd that all this guts, blood and terror still seems fun in a creepy way thanks to Jason Aaron’s script.

  It’s pretty bold of Aaron to sideline Logan and let the other cast shine. Beast vs Sabretooth was satisfying and inspires Kilgore to hatch his next scheme to destroy the Jean Grey School and get his revenge on Logan.

  Chris Bachalo returns on art and knocks us out especially when Genesis unleashes his power. The Hank/Victor action is stylized and pops out of the page.

  Wolverine and the X-Men continues to be my favorite X book because it’s the most fun even when you feel a little disturbed by this issue dark, twisted, violent manipulations and countermoves.

AvX This Geek’s Theories

Avengers Vs. X-Men #5 courtesy Marvel

 These ideas have been running in my head and really come to the forefront after reading AvX #1 so I want to share them. These are not facts just my thoughts about the future of this series and the Marvel universe.

– The Phoenix Force created the mutant gene in humanity. They’re not Children of the Atom after all.

– Cyclops has been under the influence of The Void.

– The Sentry/Void will return to challenge the Phoenix Force.

– Professor X will take back leadership of mutantkind.

– Namor’s allegiance to the X-Men will be severed in AvX.

– Emma Frost knows in her heart Cyclops is wrong and believes Hope is a threat but she will not betray him. I think Emma will pay a terrible price as a result of AvX.

– Hope is not Jean Grey reincarnated. I think Hope may be connected to Madelyn Pryor somehow and this ties into Matt Fraction’s Sisterhood story during his Uncanny run. Which means Sinister is involved.

– Hope and the Five Lights are manifestations come to life like when Scarlet Witch created her sons.

– Jean Grey will not return in physical form but she will appear to Emma Frost from the White Hot Room.

 By Editor