Avengers & X-Men: Axis

From the years where one mediocre Marvel event elbowed aside the previous one to find itself being pushed out of the way by the next, comes... more of the same. This one will change every, oops sorry, nothing. Which is actually in its favour. It's a big dumb fight filled festival of brawling. Sound like your sort of thing? Step on in.After a whole Red Skull meets Scarlet Witch mix produces a crimson switcheroo, goodies become baddies, baddies become goodies. But despite that the X-Men still have to fight the Avengers. Of course they do.This could have been interesting. There are hints at what might have been here and there. In Sam Wilson letting loose some Trumpian-style fascistic anti-democratic rhetoric, and Luke Cage's anti-mutant sentiments. But ultimately these sides are ignored in favour of simplistic good v bad or selfish v selfless. Ultimately subtle character studies don't generate mass brawls quite the way good v evil does. And this book is really only about the brawls.Brawls can be OK. These cross-book events can bring together fun combinations. But not here. It's just one aimless fight after another until you're too bored to wonder what'll start the next one. Or the next three. As it gets closer to the end one of my pet peeves is deployed over and over again. The last scene on a page has the openning line of dialogue from a mystery assailant who'll be joining the battle in the first panel over the page. Once! This should be allowed once!The art is boilerplate Marvel. Blandly effective, neither distractingly good nor bad. The art and writing are a pretty fair partnership. The covers, including the ones in the gallery at the end, are slightly higher quality than the art in the book, but I think that's mostly down to the nice cover layout and logo design. The best cover is Chip Zdarsky's which mocks this book in a way that's maybe closer to the bone than Marvel usually allow. It's the only genuinely funny thing in this book (which has Deadpool and Spider-Man in it, being their quippy selves).So if you like a brawl great! If you like actual villains turning up in these events rather than just heroes fighting each other then good too! Although all the villains are acting out of character, so does it still count? A missed opportunity is submerged beneath boring battles between heroes and villains with wafer thin motivations. A good event needs more than a neat logo.

Good comic book where the intrigue lies in the reversal of the ethics of heroes and villains, swaying them to the other side!It's not the best stuff out of Marvel done yet, but it's pretty good!I wholly recommend it!

I sought this run out because of the premise of the good guys turning into bad guys and vice versa. While it wasn't as many as I had thought there would be, the ones that do result in some epic fights and chaos. I was a little confused with some characters as I don't read X-Men comics, but other than that I enjoyed it a lot.

It was an interesting read.

Could have been better. End was so so on artwork started well. Just dragged a bit too much. Ok. But just ok

I didn't expect anything special from this one, but it delivered way more than the ordinary storyline. Seeing the worst of world's heroes and the best from the world's villains was spectacular, the art was great as well.