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Originally posted by Power Boy:
Avengers: X-Sanction #1
(Cable hunts down the Avengers ... bizarro nonsense ... and ridiculously violent)
I read about half ... then skimmed ... saw Cable shoot an imprisoned Captain America in the head (sort of ... the panel went black) ... then put it down, I felt dirty and used, It turned me off the rest of the series and the upcoming X-Men versus Avengers event. So I got Avengers vs. X-Men #1. ha! It's bad enough to go in this thread ... mainly for not making any sense.
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Originally posted by Power Boy: Originally posted by Power Boy:
[b]Avengers: X-Sanction #1
(Cable hunts down the Avengers ... bizarro nonsense ... and ridiculously violent)
I read about half ... then skimmed ... saw Cable shoot an imprisoned Captain America in the head (sort of ... the panel went black) ... then put it down, I felt dirty and used, It turned me off the rest of the series and the upcoming X-Men versus Avengers event. I'm ashamed to admit I bought number 2. It's even worse than number 1 ... it makes less sense. Iron Man takes out Emma Frost with some anti telepathic nanites or something ... even after there was a whole news article and press saying the advantage the X-Men had over the Avenger was telepaths ... and then Iron Man just takes her telepathy out in one panel. LOL!!! Dr. Strange engages in the battle royale ... even though he probably could've just taken them all out in advance. <span class="spoiler_containter"><span class="spoiler_wording">Click Here For A Spoiler</span><span class="spoiler_text">Scarlet Witch refrains from fighting ... 'cause they just had this same story but with her instead of the Phoenix ... so she's probably tired from playing the role of the mega powerful woman that everyone fights over. </span></span> John Romita Jr. can still draw some Wolverine though.
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I narrowly avoided the ... Avengers vs. X-Men : Versus comic It totally looks like Avengers vs. X-Men from the cover!!! http://marvel.com/comic_books/issue/42492/avengers_vs_x-men_versus_2011_1 shady ... anyway the #1 made me suspicious and I read through it at the comic store ... <span class="spoiler_containter"><span class="spoiler_wording">Click Here For A Spoiler</span><span class="spoiler_text">Iron Man defeats Magneto .... yeah right ... and Thing defeats Namor (In water no less) Can the thing even swim ... being made of rock??</span></span> FEH! And it appears from the cover of #6 ... despite a dramatic bowing out of the fight in #2 , the Scarlet Witch will be involved. weird.
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Ha, that page suggests 'Secret Wars II' as a related product you might be interested in if you like A vs. X!
I'd burn any link to Secret Wars II from the interwebs, if I was Marvel, and hope that everyone forgets it ever happened...
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I stuck with the mid-nineties Gerard Jones Justice League America on a monthly basis until the bitter end.
Good mix of characters, but my God what a utter mess of crap:
-Power Girl's rapidly aging "let's never speak of him again" baby
-Max Lord is Lord Havok or a robot or something
-Power Girl dosen't know Nuklon despite founding Infinity Inc together?
-That weird scene where lesbian-Ice Maiden dresses up as Fire's dead best friend in the un-sexiest strip tease ever
-Other stuff I probably suppressed
The weird thing is thirteen-year old me totally dug the comic at the time.
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Lol, thirteen year old me also dug that comic!
You had Blue Devil being made into an idiot.
Crimson Fox being killed and another Crimson Fox (her sister) showing up all of a sudden, totally taking her place as if little happened, complete with Metamorpho romance. Say what?
Artemis-as-Wonder Woman joins!
Obsidion tries to kill himself!
Little Pteradactyl dude is the major domo of the HQ. Maybe that wasn't so bad, it was just so random!
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This sounds so wacky I may have to look it up ! I trailed off during 'Breakdowns' ... Any hoo .... I bought Avengers vs. X-Men round 3 bwahahahahaha I know I know ... but somehow it is amusing me by how much it confuses me ... <span class="spoiler_containter"><span class="spoiler_wording">Click Here For A Spoiler</span><span class="spoiler_text">Hope ran away at the end of the last issue (how else are they gonna bleed another few issues out of this story??) … THEN EVERYONE IS JUST STANDING AROUND (it's really funny) … X-Men and Avengers alike … Cyclops and Magik manage to dupe the Avengers and teleport away … searching for Hope </span></span> The one bit I found reasonable was <span class="spoiler_containter"><span class="spoiler_wording">Click Here For A Spoiler</span><span class="spoiler_text">Rachel Grey going behind Wolvie's back and helping Cyclops … I'm not sure how or why it was intended but it seems reaosnable to me that she would side with Hope since Wolvie previous gutted Rachel as Phoenix a long long time ago … and Rachel never had too many problems handling the Phoenix force .. so she would be more likely to side against Wolverine and trust that Hope could manage it … not that she's ever met Hope. (I hope (no pun intended) the writers spent as much time thinking about that moment as I did.  </span></span> Back to the confusion ... <span class="spoiler_containter"><span class="spoiler_wording">Click Here For A Spoiler</span><span class="spoiler_text">over six pages of Captain America and Wolverine fighting. Wolverine gets chucked out of a plane. Cap wants to imprison Hope, Wolvie wants to gut her. And I think it was kinda messed up that Giant Man took out Wolverine from behind … Cap saying that he had the Avengers on his side …. FTW …. since when is Wolvie not just as much an Avenger? shady cliquey back stabbing …. </span></span> maybe all these guys are on too much steroids ... file this one in the almost 'so bad it's good'.
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I actually decided with #2 that I might keep collecting for the 'so bad its good' reasoning.
Wolverine deciding to kill Hope, with freaking Spider-Man by his side, brought the ridiculousness of his status as an Avenger to the forefront. The crazy thing is, it's kind of in character though taken to caricature levels. But it shows why he simply should not be an Avenger.
Also, I'm a big JR Jr fan, as many here know. But even I have to admit that he phoned in #2. The Avengers storming the beach scene? He must have done that in 30 minutes.
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Originally posted by Cobalt Kid:
I'm a big JR Jr fan, as many here know. But even I have to admit that he phoned in #2. The Avengers storming the beach scene? He must have done that in 30 minutes. Holy moley! Cobie actually criticized Junior!!!! But how can Junior possibly get any worse than Gumby Apocalypse from the Bendis/Junior Kang story? The mind boggles. 
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well ... He only has 6 story writers and 1 script writer to please! bwahahahaha! It's surprising so many people want to take credit for this ... and how text free it still is!!!
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Originally posted by Fanfic Lady: Originally posted by Cobalt Kid:
[b]I'm a big JR Jr fan, as many here know. But even I have to admit that he phoned in #2. The Avengers storming the beach scene? He must have done that in 30 minutes. I'd say it's the worst 3-4 pages of his career. You can truly tell he was under the gun. I think Peebs is right--so many writers prob meant multi-rewrites. They probably picked JR Jr because of his rep for being fast for exactly this reason.
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More Polyanna than Poison Ivy
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Whatevs. He was rude to me at a convention in the 90s, so I take delight in anything negative about him.
Shouldn't the discussion of Avengers vs. X-Men continue in the All Avengers Thread?
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Wow, really! You always hear the usual 'nicest guy ever' bit about so many people but it's interesting to hear that about Romita Jr.
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It's not like I said to him, "I liked your early work better." He just seemed to infer that from what I handed him to sign. Very discourteous and unprofessional.
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Avengers vs. X-Men #4
Dosn't Wolverine know that Polar Bears are a threatened species!
and then ... it was all for nothing ... Wolverine is azycray.
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uh ... Avengers vs. X-Men 'round' 5. new lows ... I think I am even burnt out on making fun of this comic.
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