Avengers vs X-Men #0 is a prelude to Marvel's annual big event Avengers vs X-Men so you would expect it to be incredible because it's part of the big event meaning the creative teams will put a lot of creativity behind the story, well they didn't.
This issue was broken into two stories - a Scarlet Witch one (written by Bendis) and a Hope Summers one (written by Jason Aaron).
The Scarlet Witch story obviously focuses on Scarlet Witch and her return after being Dr. Doom's fiance and being saved from the Young Avengers. The comic really didn't do her justice, Scarlet Witch is one of the most powerful mutants in the world, and she gets overrun by M.O.D.O.K.'s robotic mutated animals which eventually causes her to need saving by Spider-Woman and Ms. Marvel. As much as I like Scarlet Witch, I think having her back was a big mistake; there is nothing Marvel can do with her, once a major character in the Marvel universe she's most likely going to be a background character that won't be used to her full potential. The only thing I expect Bendis to do for her is to have almost everyone hating on her; Vision is the first to do so, which caught me by surprise.
Hope now knows that the Phoenix is coming for her, she doesn't know what it wants, but she's ready for it. But first she wants to figure out who she is, and that's what her story tries to focus on. In order to find herself, she goes and looks for trouble and eventually finds the Serpent Society who she brutally beats the crap out of. Hope's story was better than Wanda's. Aaron portrayed Hope correctly, the comic has her going solo against the Serpent Society with a knife, her skills and of course her mutant powers. Hope is also a very strong person mentally, and Aaron showed that when she tells Scott that she is prepared for the Phoenix even though she does not know what it has in store for her.
Frank Cho was the artist behind this issue of Avengers vs. X-Men and I've honestly seen better from him; he's not bad in this issue, but I've seen better. His panels were simple and easy to read, nothing crazy was done; everything looked good until I saw Ms. Marvel's face. I don't know why, but Ms. Marvel's face looks awkward and it's just her, well not really, some of the other faces in the comic look weird. I do like how Jason Keith (this issue's color artist) did color Emma, he didn't blob Emma's face with makeup like usual colorists do.
All in all, this issue did nothing, sure it was a prologue but the prologue should set up the story even though Marvel has been setting up their event for awhile. The art was decent and could've been better; luckily Stuart Immomen will be doing the main art for the event.
Avengers vs. X-Men #0 - 7/10
0 comments:
Post a Comment