A+X, Vol. 2: A+X=Amazing

A+X #7-12

by Zeb Wells, Christopher Yost (Text), Mike Costa (Text)

Marvel NOW! continues pairing the Avengers and the X-Men, producing results unlike any team-up story before! Be here as the ever-lovin blue-eyed Thing and the ever-lusting red-eyed Gambit play the most dangerous game! Then, Thor and Iceman team up in one of the most visually amazing tales you've ever seen! Captain America and Wolverine fight a decidedly unique villain! And Deadpool and Hawkeye...well, let's just say that they don't see eye-to-eye! And that's just the tip of the iceberg, as Marvel NOW! shows you that A plus X equals infinite possibilities!

COLLECTING: A+X 7-12. Also includes exclusive AR video content!

Genres: Comics, Marvel, Graphic Novels, Fantasy, Superheroes, X Men, Graphic Novels Comics

144 pages, Paperback

First published November 20, 2013

About the author

Zeb Wells is an American comic book writer known for his work at Marvel Comics, as well as his work on the animated TV series Robot Chicken.

Reviews

[Josiah (bookishfanboy)]

There are some good stories and there are also some bad ones.. Some characters was 'meh' and the art with Thor + Iceman is not really that impressive.

[Sam Quixote]

The first A+X book wasn’t a masterpiece by a long shot but was a somewhat entertaining mish-mash of team-up short stories featuring one X-Man and one Avenger in a quick light-hearted romp. Some were adventures like Captain America and Cable defeating Bolivar Trask and his Sentinels in WW2, some were throwaway stories like Wolverine and Captain Marvel playing poker. There were a few crappy ones in there, a few good ones, and a few mediocre ones. The second volume has no such variety – it’s all complete shit!

None of the stories here even remotely entertained and read like excerpts from larger, unimaginative stereotypical Marvel superhero stories. Iron Man and Beast fight a robot, Ice-Man and Thor fight an ice giant, Spider-Woman and Kitty Pryde fight the Absorbing Man…………….zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz…………………. There’s just no imagination here.

I enjoyed a couple of very brief moments like in Hawkeye and Deadpool’s story, Deadpool uses Hulk-hand arrows (the same Hulk-hands you can buy in Toys’R’Us) and the Beast/Wonder Man story was ok as they got drunk and reminisced about the good ol’ days. But that was it and isn’t nearly enough to recommend this book.

Also, this book is called A+X, meaning one Avenger and one X-Man team-up to help one another in the story but in the Magik/Thor story they’re about to throw down and Superior Spider-Man flat out beats on Cyclops – it’s AVX all over again!

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

And then in the Iron Man/Beast story, Hulk pops up at the end to help them win – so it was A+A+X! The writer of that one couldn’t even stick to the basic formula for a stinkin’ short story!

This title could feature disposable but enjoyable stories like the first book showed but if anything this second volume reveals how quickly the concept has run out of steam. No wonder it’s getting cancelled – what a pile of poop!

[Alwyn]

Hondkak

Slaap pille en bier het gehelp, maar die is fabriek kaas kak. Domino en Scarlett Witch se storie, nie die kuns nie, was okay. Anders is dit net 'n bemarkings absess. Geen Cannon waarde in die ding nie en geen van die "What if"s se ballas nie. Moet nie jou tyd, geld, of temperament mors op dit nie.

[C.T. Phipps]

Great book

Lots of fun in this story of the Avenger teaming up with Marvel's most misunderstood miscreants. I liked the previous volume a bit more but this was still fun.

[Silas]

Like the previous volume, and like any compilation of team-up books featuring different creative times and characters, there are good stories and bad ones. For some, the art is terrible, for others, the story is uninspired, or the characterization is way off, but for others, there are very interesting story elements tied to just the right moment for the characters. The Captain America and Jubilee story was very fun, but the Captain America and Wolverine one was not. The Thor and Iceman story was fun, but the art was a huge turn-off, and Iceman just was not like himself in the story. If you can go into this without expecting it to be life-changing comics, and understanding that it will be hit-or-miss, this can be an enjoyable experience.

[Viridian5]

Some of these are good, some pointless, all are kind of random. The art on the Scarlet Witch and Domino story was so amateur I couldn't believe it. I most enjoyed the Shadowcat and Spider-Woman story and the story that remembered that the Beast and Wonder Man used to hang out and get into all kinds of weird trouble decades ago.

[Jen]

Just like the first volume, you have to be ok with knowing that this series is really just a fun little money-maker and doesn't (for the most part) follow anything.

One full star was docked because of how awful the Scarlet Witch/Domino team up was. The art, the story, the words.... everything was just awful.

[Quentin Wallace]

Similar volume to the first with continuity free reading adding up to fun. I liked seeing Wolverine team up with Captain America best but there are plenty of great team ups in this volume. Captain America teaming up with vampiric Jubilee in order to face a submarine full of Nazi Vampires was a good one as well.

If you like team up stories that you can read without a lot of background needed, try this series out.

[James]

A+X vol. 2

Second book of this series is pretty good. Loved the various team ups of Avengers/X-Men. Cap and Logan, Beast and Wonder Man. Who will they team up next. Just have to read the next book.

[Geonessary]

This was the best Volume of the three, in my opinion. Pretty solid artwork through out and fun story telling.

[Julia Bilderback]

This had some great one-shots in it. At the same time it had some mediocre one-shot. There was also some disjunction about the different art styles.

[Christopher Ogden]

Extra star for Beast /Wonderman

The art was consistently good. The stories were too short to really matter. A couple stand out of above the others.

[Bekka]

Had such a good time reading this - I love the little crossovers and the ridiculous things these characters get up to - it's so much fun!

[Scott E]

These are a proper mixed bag. Some of the stories are top class but others are really poor

[Dbetts12]

I was not impressed

The matchups were horrible and the storylines was the worst I've seen in a long time. Was a waste of time and money.

[Doctor Doom]

Some of these stories were great, others were merely okay

[Elliot]

Insanely patchy - some excellent characterisation and then some woeful woeful interpretations

[Paul Apsley]

This version I liked better. Still not a big fan of the format, but the creators do the most with what they have.

[B]

Lots of fun.

There is a weird disclaimer that the reader does not have to know the bakcstories and such of all the characters . . . . But that's not true. Th e most enjoyment is derived from knowing what's going on.

Rather, what this means is unlike most "Team-Up" issues, they totally bypass the first third where each character has an internal dialogue explaining who they are and what plot-relevant points about their powers or personality are salient to the upcoming story. So, zoom! Right into the action!

Obviously not every story is a winner, but there were three laugh out loud moments in this book. Pretty good for a zooming action book.

Some conceptual slipperiness in that some of the A+X are really A+A or X+X (ex: Captain America and Wolverine, Beast and Wonder Man, Scarlet Witch and Domino.) But that's because some characters are already A+X. And what the heck . . . . . They really could stop calling it A+X and start calling it "Superhero Buddy Flick Monthly." I wouldn't care too much.

[Léna]

Plutôt bien. Je l'ai lu en quasiment 1 mois donc ma mémoire n'est pas forcément toute fraîche. J'ai adoré les team-ups de Deadpool/Oeil de Faucon (#8) et Le Fauve/Wonder Man (#12). Certains suscitent un peu plus de réflexion et font sourire (Iron Man/Le Fauve (#7) ou Domino/Scarlet Witch) ce qui n'est pas déplaisant. Question ennemis on a de tout : des Jotuns aux insectes et serpents géants en passant par les incontournables dinosaures, des menaces magiques, des supervillains genre l'Homme Absorbant, des organisations secrètes... bref, que d'aventures pour ces super-héros.
La note de ce livre est plutôt 3.5/5 mais j'ai tellement aimé le team-up Beast/Wonder Man !

[G]

Alright, so #11 had its very glorious moments with Beast and Simon, but that was about it. While volume 1 of the title was pretty nice in a silly way, I was sighing and hoping this volume would end already. Highlights were definitely Beast and Simon, and maybe possibly could have been Magik and Thor as well if she hadn't been drawn in such a humanly impossible way to make her look like a blow-up doll.

[XMCU]

Here my rough evaluation of these stories featured in this book:

Ironman & Beast: good
Iceman & Thor: okay
Kitty Pryde & Spider-Woman: good
Hawk Eye and Deadpool: Good
Wolverine & Capt America: okay
Dr Strange & X-Students: good
Black Widow & Fantomex: good
Wanda & Domino: good
Thor and Magik: bad
Cyclops & Dr Spider-Man: good
Beast & Wonder Man: good
Capt America & Jubilee: okay

Average: 2.58/3

[Angela]

This is a lot of fun. Avengers team up with Xmen. I particularly like Hawkeye and Deadpool. Wonderman and Beast was really touching too, especially if you are familiar with their history. The great thing about these books is that you don't need to be up to date with continuity, just enjoy them. A good read.

[Mitchell Friedman]

Pretty consistently awful. Though some of the art was much worse - in particular the Scarlet Witch/Domino team up. The Jubilee/Captain America team up was only half bad - which made it better then I expect it to be with anything with Jubilee. Mostly the stories were stupid and pointless, the writing at best barely adequate and the artwork marginal.

[Christopher]

Worth it just for the first and last issues (and maybe the issue featuring the Black Widow/Fantomex and Domino/Scarlet Witch stories). Otherwise, the rest is mostly uneven, ranging from just okay to outright garbage.

[Alex Sarll]

Variable and often entirely pointless team-up anthology; highlights for me were Wonder Man and Beast reconnecting on a bar crawl that gets well out of hand, and 'recap' pages that revel in their own uselessness.

[David]

Another excellent batch of team-up stories. Light-hearted fun. One obvious flub is in Adam Warren's Scarlet Witch short which mistakenly has given Wanda the power of flight. She's never had that power before. Why didn't the editor catch that?

[Vesmé]

(Read as individual comics.)

[Shannon Appelcline]

Pretty much like its predecessor: great writing and funny, but also shallow and something that doesn't need to be read again.

[Scott Lee]

Same deal as the last review. I may occasionally pick up the trades of this story if I'm looking for something with mainstream characters that has a different feel.