Don’t Need No Civil War: Avengers Vs. X-Men #1 Cover
on January 16, 2012 at 12:58 pm
According to various Twitter feeds, the winter Marvel Editorial Retreat is starting today in New York. So, possibly to fend off questions from the outside world like, “So if Cable’s a time traveler with less than 24 hours to live due to a crippling and debilitating illness, and he wants to take out The Avengers, why is setting up a boat with a bunch a deathtraps a better plan than whacking Captain America’s mom in 1920? It probably wouldn’t be hard; Steve Rogers didn’t need the Super Soldier serum because he came from hearty stock,” and, “What Marvel character will Matt Fraction be killing next? And is Matt aware of what ‘dead’ actually means?” they’ve released Jim Cheung’s cover to the upcoming first issue of Avengers Vs. X-Men for us to drool over.
Now that is some cool-looking shit right there… although I question some of the match-ups we have. For example, Spider-Man versus Rogue doesn’t seem particularly fair, especially considering she’s standing right next to Juggernaut and is one glove layer away from grabbing that power and putting Spidey’s spinal column into orbit. And Magneto against Luke Cage sounds great until you remember that Cage’s skin is steel hard, not actual steel, and Magneto fighting him would be about as effective as fighting John Holmes, only eventually far more uncomfortable.
I kid, I kid… I’m actually looking forward to this event. Marvel’s last few have been pretty big misfires, but this one looks psychically close enough to Civil War, the last Marvel event that I think generally worked, that they can maybe carry it off… Then again, they accidentally labeled the cover image as “#0″ instead of “#1″, so maybe I’m setting my sights too high.
Avengers Vs. X-Men #1 drops in April.
Who is the constipated looking elf at about 7 o’clock from Rogue’s head?
That’s Beast. You might remember him from such movies as X-Men 3… had anyone been foolish enough to make X-Men 3. Thank God they decided to scuttle the series after the second movie.
And I’ll fight any man says otherwise.
Unless Beast shaved himself all over and turned vaguely Asian, it’s not Beast. I’m talking about the guy on the X-men (right) side of the picture. He’s at about 11 o’clock from Juggernaut and 2 o’clock from Iceman. And no, I’m not talking about Armor, who actually is Asian.
With the widow’s peak looking hair line? That’d be Namor they’ve got shoe horned in there. Imperious Rex and all that.
Namor is an X-man? Who knew? I kind of thought he was DC. Imagine my shame.
In the latest incarnation of Uncanny X-Men, yes. Mostly because he wants to Imperious his Rex in Emma Frost. I guess Sue Storm isn’t answering his phone calls these days.