The hard-hitting battle between teams leads to a lot of wonderful bonding moments, including Tony Stark and Hank McCoy analyzing their respective fascist heel-turns, Storm and Temper having a heart-to-heart, and Kid Omega making the mistake of needling The Vision. Some good comics to be had. Read Full Review

Schiti delivers beautiful art throughout the issue and I loved the visual style of the story. All of the characters look amazing. Read Full Review

Avengers #21 is the kind of surprise we need more of in comics. It joyfully subverts fan expectations, traffics in some well-crafted character development, and is gorgeously illustrated. Whether you're an X-Men fan or an Avengers fan, there's something for you here. Read Full Review

After years of uncomfortable tension between teams, Avengers #21 sees Earth's mightiest heroes reconciling with the X-Men in the most heartwarming superhero tale of the year. Read Full Review

Avengers #21 has the Avengers and X-Men face offin baseball. Dont let the cool cover fool you, its just a fun little get-together between the Avengers and the X-Men. On the one hand, its nice to see the superheroes hanging out and being chummy together a little bit. On the other hand, it could be setup for darker things to come in a future story where they turn on each other, as usual. Hopefully, something more fun and positive comes from this issue and the heroes actually stick together in future stories. Read Full Review

This issue certainly has some very cool stuff going for it. Ofc the bait, which is a ''spoiler'' no ''spoiler'', is super well done, i guess it could be interpreted as a jab at avx, but it's deeper than this because the whole issue is centered around it even too much.

The Avengers and the x-men do not really have a reason to be fighting, but at the same time they kinda do, but because they are rational people who have been knowing each other for so long as of right now, and a bunch of they share history they want to be in each other's good graces. On a macro scale the issue does this, it tries to convince the reader that those characters have much in common, that they can be helpful to each other, that they care for each other, and are ready to spend time with each other to be comfortable with each other. This can be seen very clearly at the end of the issue in the pages with Carol and Scott, where the biggest issues of trust arise as the final challenge, the actual important challenge to the teams, after a lot of slice-of-life issues. Then Mackey assures us that those are nonissues and that both teams would finally be in a good relationship.

As a fan I think something like this is needed. The relationship between X-Men and the Avengers is so rarely addressed when their history is actually full of small or not-so-small hostilities. Sure we have the unity squads, but those are different. Here we talk about the main teams that often just occupy different worlds. So this issue takes the needed time to clear the air and to make sure where they stand.

On a micro level, as usual with Mackay's Avengers, we get those small squares of moments with each character and some other character with big contrasts and similarities, where we get to explore a little bit of both and see those contrasts and similarities. Mackey really does have a talent of finding those openings to make an interesting connection, an interesting juxtaposition. It is on the nose, the way the conversations start is like in a video game, they start from a very high place and are just questions that one would not make out of the blue, so it's both forced and on the nose. But are insightful and are actually deep and at the end of the day, the characters are interesting because of this, because we see what they believe. Ofc if you like those characters you would likely know all this, but it's still cool to clear the air even there. It makes the characters deeper than more significant and it's obvious that there is a huge understanding of what makes them click. Maybe Mackay overdoes it, but it is effective and gives characters a feeling of having a soul and experiences, that they interpret in their own way, even if they talk like they do in Skyrim.

Overall it's not perfect, the issue would have benefited from a little bit of more natural touch, of more variable tone even, i get everything is supposed to be all fun and heartwarming, but again it feels stilted to a certain extent, it feels rehearsed, like too much of it feels preplaned again from the dialogue to how the characters act. Again some good comes out of it, but i still think with little twinks issues like this could be even better, even if now this is pretty good.

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I enjoy reading the occasional issue where the talking and socialising take precedence over the action, however, it seems that not much is happening in this title at all since I started reading it a few issues ago. I’ve never been a big Avengers fan, but they have had several great runs over the years that I enjoyed, with great art and writing and interesting character dynamics. This isn’t one of those.
The art is very average in my opinion - readable, but rough and not very attractive.
And the writing - let’s just say X-Men and Avengers are my least favorite books right now, and it can’t be coincidence that McKay is writing both of them. Yes, something is happening, but it all feels underwhelming, like a half-assed attempt at reviving a corpse. more

This is a complete bait and switch and Jed McKay should be ashamed of himself with "Gotcha" moment. He's been pushing this Avengers v X-Men part 2 and when we get it, it's a baseball game with some mediocre dialogue. This is just an awful, awful book in my opinion, and it shouldn't exist. It's simply Jed Mckay trying to do a crossover with his titles. I'm surprised Moon Knight didn't show up to hit a few homers. I'm going to see what he does with Black Cat and this title is a drop for me.

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