RESULTS: What Did You Think Of AVENGERS VS. X-MEN?

RESULTS: What Did You Think Of AVENGERS VS. X-MEN?

Avengers Vs. X-Men has perhaps been one of Marvel's most controversial events EVER, so when we asked you guys what you thought of the series, the response was very vocal. Find out the results of that poll (as well as which side you ultimately landed on) here!

Feature Opinion
By JoshWilding - Oct 12, 2012 11:10 AM EST
Filed Under: Marvel Comics


Avengers Vs. X-Men was certainly a success in terms of sales, but how did it fare with you, the readers? The reaction from critics has certainly been mixed, with the series criticised for unconvincing characterisation and an uneven tone. I've made no secret of the fact that I didn't enjoy the event and after over a decade of reading Marvel Comics, I will be reading less titles than ever during "Marvel NOW!". The reaction from you guys was far more mixed however, although it IS clear that you were far from blown away by it. As for which side you ended up coming down on, the X-Men just managed to beat Earth's Mightiest Heroes. Start campaigning for those "Cyclops Was Right!" t-shirt's folks...





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r1s1ng0fth3fall
r1s1ng0fth3fall - 10/12/2012, 11:36 AM
x-men the best.
superwolverine
superwolverine - 10/12/2012, 11:37 AM
I thought it was okay, i see alot of negative remarks about the cyclops villan turn. The story kinda drag alittle, but i liked the delivery
superwolverine
superwolverine - 10/12/2012, 11:41 AM
In the end though the X-men and the Avengers were both right about the pheonix. The tie-ins were pretty cool too.Overall i thought it was better than Fear Itself.
ATrueHero1987
ATrueHero1987 - 10/12/2012, 11:41 AM
@Josh Which titles from Marvel NOW are you going to check out??
superwolverine
superwolverine - 10/12/2012, 11:44 AM
Sorry one more thing.... when did namor become a mutant let alone the first mutant? i thought it was apocaylse.
luckylu
luckylu - 10/12/2012, 11:48 AM
i want a "cyclops was right" shirt
PsyGuy
PsyGuy - 10/12/2012, 11:52 AM
They should have made the ending a little bit more open to interpretation.
It would have been awesome if there was never a CLEAR winner.
BobbyDrake85
BobbyDrake85 - 10/12/2012, 11:55 AM
^ ditto
gaikinger
gaikinger - 10/12/2012, 12:04 PM
Hasn't been a good cross over since Civil War.
Supernature
Supernature - 10/12/2012, 12:05 PM
It was one of the worst pieces of garbage I've ever read.

Everyone was out of character and the story was cringe inducing. The fight were BS, it was horribly one sided, etc etc... I could go on.

A streaming pile of dog shit.

I'm excited about Marvel Now! though.
JustDame
JustDame - 10/12/2012, 12:24 PM
it was pretty good to me. 6-7/10 to me
MutantEquality
MutantEquality - 10/12/2012, 12:30 PM
So so much potential. Save the world in a meaningful way that relates to the real world. Free energy, sustainable food and water and no more war. Good concept.

Except it was bogged down by a whole mess of "Heroes" completly out of character on a Cyclops Witch Hunt. Didn't matter what the characters had done before good or bad, didn't matter what good was being done and it didn't matter what the villians were doing either. The whole thing suddenly changed into "Lets get Cyclops at all costs!"

So much potential but ended up being so poorly written that it was embarrassing to any lifetime Xmen fan and most regular comic book fans.

People just love to see heroes fall. Seemed everyone felt "better him than me."

Piss poor
MutantEquality
MutantEquality - 10/12/2012, 12:33 PM
@Josh Love the new Avatar btw
GLprime2814
GLprime2814 - 10/12/2012, 1:16 PM
Last issue was a huge disappointment .
DoomXfactor
DoomXfactor - 10/12/2012, 1:26 PM
Fear Itself and AVX are the most disappointing events from Marvel I've read in a long time. Let's hope Marvel Now does better.
MutantEquality
MutantEquality - 10/12/2012, 1:48 PM
@HalloweenJack

So it's in character for Captain America to lead the Avengers to invade Utopia, the nation of Mutants, with the intention of kidnapping their first born in years? Really? I don't understand sitting here in my arm chair.
OtakuPapi
OtakuPapi - 10/12/2012, 2:09 PM
Namor is the first recordrf Marvel mutant....Apocalypse predates him but not in publishing. Loved the beginning of Avx but Avx should've all been double sized books to give more depth.Thats all this event lacked was depth
AEStark
AEStark - 10/12/2012, 2:17 PM
It is the comic book equivalent of X-men The Last Stand. Professor x died needlessly after all the posturing about being able to stop him, and the rest was predictable from there on. Plus, the death was so unceremonious that i thought cyclops just shut his mind down until they actually said he was dead( but that's the artist fault).
All in all, it was resoundingly ok.
ManThing
ManThing - 10/12/2012, 2:55 PM
Apocalypse is the oldest mutant. He is a mutant, but like Thanos of Titan, he has "upgraded" himself in numerous ways using alien technology, etc. So he is indeed much more than a mutant.
Harris1
Harris1 - 10/12/2012, 3:02 PM
@holloween Jack- so it's the most important event in comic history because you say so? Please...get over yourself. This event was just as bad and over hyped as civil war. The event that began the destruction of so many great characters. Iron man and Cap was written out of character in that just to heat up the conflict. Spidey was written into a hole they couldn't dig him out of. Brand new day just made it worse. Made him look even more silly. Deal with the devil...yeah right. Since then we've had one badly written event after another, fear itself and A vs X being the worse. None of these things pack any weight and the characterization are thrown out to suit whatever silly event they have come up with. Not to mention, this is Marvels weak ass answer to DC's cash cow event flash point and the new 52. Marvel Now...whatever. Not for me. No Marvel now, No Marvel tomorrow, No Marvel Forever!
Mucklefluga
Mucklefluga - 10/12/2012, 3:17 PM
IT WAS TOTAL SHIT
1RoninAmongBitches
1RoninAmongBitches - 10/12/2012, 4:57 PM
IT WAS TOTALLY AMAZING SHIT
1RoninAmongBitches
1RoninAmongBitches - 10/12/2012, 5:54 PM
DC FANS are mad at success. while there comics are on the PHANTOMS level of qaulity. go read your Batman origins [frick]in crybabies lmao
GhostKILLERgx7
GhostKILLERgx7 - 10/12/2012, 7:42 PM
i'm sorry to say but this book was just marketing plain and simple. why you can defend that all of marvels titles are lets look at some big points. from the fallout of fear itself we had the return of steve rogers as captain america, and they never followed thought with the death of thor. because both characters where now on the big screen. the avx outcome was a product of who made the most money(i know i'm preaching knowledge we all know) this could have been the big chance to bring back the mutant race, and who knows they could be still doing that. but to turn cyclops into the most hated man of all time. i don't buy it. it just seemed like the x-men where fighting the same battles and values they always have, but where put on the back burner just because they where going up against the avengers. [frick] there was more care in civil war than there was in avx. there friends people they have fought with and backed them on many occasions, have now turn their backs and prosecuted the x-men like the rest of the world does. im sorry i don't buy that, and i don't seem doing a "re-launch" as a solution, that's just keeping up with the competition. this was a book that came out a bit before it's time. if there was a few titles to help make the lead up stronger than the ends would justify the means. but that wasn't the case. i wanted to see the mutants come back. i felt they were going to come back from this. yet i'm left with this sour taste in my mouth from our so called "heroes"
CaptainObvious
CaptainObvious - 10/12/2012, 7:45 PM
"Wow.. look at all the DC crybabies.. Not surprised."
Funny how you just assume that anybody who didn't like this event is a DC fanboy. You do know it's possible for Marvel fans to hate something Marvel-related, right?
xstryker
xstryker - 10/12/2012, 8:36 PM
Sucked. Cyclops was right.
BlueDemon
BlueDemon - 10/12/2012, 9:22 PM
I'm predominantly a Marvel fan and I can say that AVX was garbage.
Mucklefluga
Mucklefluga - 10/13/2012, 8:25 AM
I'm not an anything Fanboy and this is TOTAL SHIT!!
cyked
cyked - 10/14/2012, 12:14 PM
Just because a title sells a lot of copies does not necessarily mean it's good. You can apply this formula to anything 'pop' and still come out feeling underwhelmed.
I know there are fanboys who buy several issues of a book hoping that it'll increase in value, that way they can sell one years down the road and still have others in reserve.

Also it doesn't speak to the integrity of the project when they put out a dozen different covers for a single issue. It's shrewd marketing and I don't fault them for trying to make money --- I just don't agree when they try to pass something that's poorly written off as being the greatest thing since sliced bread.

They keep posting this thread... "what did you think of AvX".... as if people are gonna change their minds. They've relaunced this topic at least a few times. People are still gonna either like it or dislike it. I still maintain that it was a total character assassination of Cyclops, and I maintain that the premise for Schism was poorly written as well. Avengers:Children's Crusade was actually well written, imo --- but as others have pointed out, Fear Itself was crappola and highly anti-climactic.

AvX started out with JRJRs very not-perfect artwork. People defend him and say "Well, at least he's fast and meets his deadlines..." well.... I'd much rather have a piece of quality work that takes a bit longer to produce than something that's hurried and disappointing.

I felt this way about the AvX story as a whole. Those who follow these threads no why.... the list of grievances is long.

For those who dug this event, more power to ya. We're all entitled to our opinions, and I don't consider you crazy or immature. I just don't agree with your assessment of the whole thing.

I think Marvel knows they peed all over Cyclops' character too ----- so much so that they're going for a re-boot of sorts by bringing 'young' Cyclops from the past, effectively giving us the version who remains a bit more true to the developed character folks actually care about.

Magic time machine. The Beast just goes and gets the old X-Men to try'n fix the shoddy writing from the past couple of years. Screw the space-time continuum --- Marvel needed to fix this, and in keeping with their recent lazy storytelling.... *poof*. Time machine.

No big whoop.
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