The big crossover event in Marvel Comics this year will be Avengers vs. X-men, a story that pits the biggest heroes of the Marvel Universe against each other. After releasing a couple of 1-on-1 pictures last week, today marks the release of the first official look at the cover.

Avengers vs. X-Men #1

To be honest, I’m not sure I like it. Sure, the inevitable in-fighting of the world’s most powerful heroes is always good fun; we just have to look back at Civil War for an example of that. I just think this is too much of a gimmick and that if they don’t tie it into the overall story line in a compelling way, it will fall flat.

Still, I’m very interested in seeing how this goes, so I’m keeping an open mind.

The artist for the cover of issue #1 is Jim Cheung, and the comic series will be worked on by Brian Michael Bendis, Jason Aaron, Matt Fraction, Jonathan Hickman, Ed Brubaker, John Romita Jr., Adam Kubert and Olivier Copiel. The overall story is described like this:

Cyclops and his team believe the arrival of the Phoenix Force will save mutantkind, but Captain America is convinced it will destroy the world!

This post was written on January 17, 2012 by Breki Tomasson in Comics and was tagged with: Adam Kubert, Avengers vs. X-Men, Brian Michael Bendis, Civil War, Ed Brubaker, Jason Aaron, Jim Cheung, John Romita Jr., Jonathan Hickman, Marvel Comics, Matt Fraction, Olivier Copiel. Find Breki Tomasson on Facebook, Google+, Twitter.