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Avengers #29 Vs Wolverine & The X-Men #12

Avengers #29 Vs Wolverine & The X-Men #12

Remember Civil War? Course you do, the one where Sue Richards left Reed Richards in two different ways, where Reed had two contradictory reasons for joining the Iron Man's side, where Iron Man contradicted himself over the detainment of prisoners in the Negative Zone, and where Captain America and Iron Man had a number of final meetings to sort things out? Course you do.

And we've seen a little of that with Secret Avengers in AVX. But today they were taking no chances.

Avengers #29 is credited to Brian Bendis as writer… but plenty of the words seem very familiar. Because you read them a month or so ago in Wolverine & The X-Men #12.

Check it.

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Some of it is just snatches of conversation…

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The book is telling different scenes throughout the fight, and gives more of the Avengers rationale than the X-Men's…

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But yes there there is a change. A big change. Which, um, makes stuff that happened last week in New Avengers a little more understandable. Also, despite accusation towards Bendis of decompression, his comic takes less space to tell the same scene. Except for one bit…

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Where Cap's last two words take up a double page…

Comics courtesy of Orbital Comics, London

 


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Rich JohnstonAbout Rich Johnston

Founder of Bleeding Cool. The longest-serving digital news reporter in the world, since 1992. Author of The Flying Friar, Holed Up, The Avengefuls, Doctor Who: Room With A Deja Vu, The Many Murders Of Miss Cranbourne, Chase Variant. Lives in South-West London, works from Blacks on Dean Street, shops at Piranha Comics. Father of two. Political cartoonist.
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