COMICS: Avengers VS X-Men: War Journals Episode 2

Im with the X-Men.

@ comix

its very outdated, boxy, everyone's faces look the same, and he has weird lines going across his characters that I assume is supposed to be his attempt at shading, but it looks horrible.

other than that, nothing. lol

Cap and the Avengers are kind of acting like dicks in this story.

Its kind of like in House of M when Cyke and the X-Men were talking about whether they should kill Scarlet Witch so that she doesn't screw up reality anymore, and the Avengers were like, "uh, no. She's an Avenger you guys don't get to decide what happens to her."

Now the roles are reversed. Cap and the Avengers want to take Hope because they're afraid she MIGHT destroy the universe if she bonds with the Phoenix Force. Bunch of hipocrites.

The X-Men will win though, and rightfully so. They have too many powerhouse characters that can counter almost all of the Avengers' characters in some way or another.

Gotta keep in mind that the X-Men have the most powerful team they've ever had in history right now.

The Avengers definately do not.

@CornDog

lol thanks, never really noticed till you pointed it out.

@ Gaston

I don't know, I liked Civil War, and it actually took a while afterward to get back to the status quo.

But you're right. other than that, the big events have been crap that just set up the next 6 months or so...which in turn set up the next big event...which in turn were just reasons to kill people off. (Sentry, Wasp)

Siege was just a reason to have Thor, Iron Man, and (steve rogers) Cap reunite. No real lasting effects.

i don't mind the Avengers being regarded as the underdog (IMO an understatement, but i wouldn't mind playing along with that perception) because that's where true heroes are always tested. rising up against all odds and coming out the real victor after the dust settled.

i just hope Wolvie turn against the Avengers and stay true to his own people and not be used as the deciding factor for whoever side's final victor because to me that would be lame and very predictable.

i'm in this with the Avengers all the way!

And everyone complaining about the artwork...This event is being played out in 3 acts. A different artist is working on each act. 12 issues, so each artist is only working on 4 issues a piece.

Don't let the art turn you off because it isn't going to be one person that entire time.

@ niknik

I usually agree with you, but not this time. Its too hard to say. The X-Men have telepaths, so its hard to say if Thor and Rulk would even be a problem against them. The Avengers have NO telepaths. Plus X-Men have Magneto. If you really want to get down to it, he could technically knock them all unconscious pretty easily by slowing the flow of iron to their brains, something he's done tons of times in the past.

It all comes down to circumstance. Marvel will make this a good fight, regardless. I just think the X-Men have too many people that could counter the Avengers.

Rulk = Colossonaut. Rulk is tough, but he's no green Hulk. Can he hang with the combined powers of Colossus and Juggernaut? Not likely.

Namor = Thing. That could go either way except for the fact that their on a small island. Namor could easily bring Ben under water where he can't breathe.

In my opinion Thor is the only breakout character that the Avengers have. The X-Men have some serious game changers on their team. I dont know, like I said, its all down to circumstance.

@ essexfactor

those are just teasers. More than likely most of those fights won't even happen. Especially since its shown that Namor is fighting Thing and Colossonaut is fighting Rulk.

all of those fight cards that you see as ads in other comics are just to get the hype up. You can't go by those.

I honestly don't see how, even with Thor, the Avengers stand a chance without the true Hulk on their side.

Rulk can't possibly beat Juggolossus; he would struggle against Colossus without Cytorrak powers, whose organic metal has proven to be pretty much invulnerable to heat.

Namor has beaten the entire Fantastic Four, and Ben Grimm on land, how can Thing stand a chance in or near water by himself? To me, this is the most rediculous battle of all of the one's they've presented or hinted at.

Cyclops's concussive beams move faster than bullets, so how can Captain America dodge any of them once he's thrown his sheild? I can see Cap standing a chance if he holds onto his sheild and moves in on Cyclops, but Cyclops is every bit a military strategist as Captain America - Captain America couldn't subdue the entire X-Men by himself, but Cyclops can and has.

Thor is the wildcard, but has proven on plenty of occasions to be weak against psychic attacks. X-Men have psychics.

I could see it playing out where Vision (who has been immune to psychic attacks in the past) is responsible for taking out the X-Men's psychics, which would give the Avengers a fighting chance.

Magneto vs Iron Man? What a joke. However, I foresee Magneto turnining his back on the X-Men and the Avengers. I think Hope will power Magneto up, but then DEpower Wanda (I don't think she'll ever become the Phoenix, and I've read she might be Jean Grey). Magneto will be furious at this and a now highly powered Magneto will be the X-Men's main villain for the next year or so, Marvel's version of a reboot.

Regardless of what happens, Hope has to cease to be in the Marvel world. She's far too powerful and they will have to start bringing in crazy powerful villains to face the X-Men if they don't. That presents a problem because it undermines the huge cadre of Marvel villains the rest of MU battles against. So either she dies, gets depowered, or returns as Jean Grey, with Jean's traditional powers.