I'll be the first to admit that I wasn't really sure about this mini-series. Marvel has burned us year after year with these big "events", especially last year's Fear Itself. Such great potential. Had a great start and a lackluster finish. So far Avengers Vs X-Men and it's side mini AVX: VS have been great!
Anyway, I'm not here to bitch about old stuff, I'm here to review the latest issue of Avengers Vs X-Men.
The issue starts off with Wolverine waking up after recovering from a severe Phoenix Force burning from Hope Summers. Spidey is there to catch him up to speed as to what happened while he was out (BTW..am I the only one that loves the Spidey/Wolvie team-ups we've been getting with the Avengers!?).
We cut to all the heroes on both sides just milling around as Cyclops has surrendered or so we think. Logan shows up just in time to let Cap know it's a trick and the X-Men teleport away. Meanwhile Hope wanders the streets of San Francisco (cue the always awesome Streets of San Francisco theme music!), builds herself some sort of mechanical gauntlet and then see's the Phoenix Force in her reflection.
Back to the Avengers. Cap and Logan ask one of Logan's student's, Rachel Summers, to help track hope, but she claims to have no luck. We then learn that Rachel is working for Cyclops (I'm out of the loop with X-Men stuff, but isn't Rachel also a daughter of Cyclop's, sent back in time?).
Cap splits the Avengers up into teams to search for Hope. He takes Sharon Carter, Giant Man and Wolverine fly off with Cap to the Savage Land, only all four them won't make it there. Cap dresses down Wolverine for attacking Hope in the previous issue and says he won't let Wolverine just kill Hope to stop the Phoenix force from taking her over. AWESOME fight ensues (GO CAP!)! With a little help from Giant Man (I'm sure Cap would have won, but who's got time for a long fight, Cap boots Wolverine out of the Quinjet, to, what I assume is the Arctic snow, below. A very pissed off Wolverine gets up and in classic Wolverine style, starts trudging his was to take out Hope.
Great issue in the series. In fact I haven't been let down yet. 3½ out of 5!
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