Avengers Vs. X-Men Round 7 #1

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• 5.0

  Major Spoilers - Matthew Peterson

  Jul 07, 2012

  Each issue of this book has been well-crafted, and parts have been downright excellent, but seven issues in, I'm really feeling the effects of the collaborative story-telling. The last three issues have raised questions and themes that I'd like to have seen examined, but I have no idea where to go to FIND the stories. Marvel's expectation that I'm reading each and every crossover issue is not realistic in terms of my budget, so I'm left with a growing collection of question marks that I'll probably not fill in until the next Handbook of The Marvel Universe updates come out. The scenes between Namor and Emma are particularly interesting to me, but I can't help but think they'll be forgotten or overwritten within a matter of weeks. Avengers Vs. X-Men Round 7 is what wrestling announcer Tazz would call a rocket-bus, hitting me with lots of action, desperate heroes trying desperate gambles, and intrigue, but fails to give me enough grounding or background to fully parse everything that hap Read Full Review