[Greenskar]

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Originally Posted by Greenskar

AvX #4 is so far the worst single issue of the entire event and tie in's so far IMO because it seems like none of these writers can figure out what or who they want wolverine to be. Seriously wtf? You spent the first few issues establishing to the reader that Wolvie sees no other solution to the Phoenix problem other than killing Hope. So committed to this end has he been that he's tried once and nearly got disintegrated but also fought Cap over it and was consequently tossed and left out in Antarctica by the Avengers.

Then for no reason whatsoever, since they've never been close and he's proven he doesn't trust hope, she goes to him claiming he's the only one she trusts to take her out if all goes bad but give her a chance to do....EXACTLY WHAT CYCLOPS HAS BEEN PREACHING SINCE BEFORE THIS EVENT STARTED! So why the hell didn't she just stay with Cyclops' team in the first place? I mean, they have Magneto. You know, the guy who actually killed Jean when Wolverine failed when they were on the asteroid headed for the Sun. Then if that's not bad enough they get on a jet together and she takes a nap, a FRIGGIN nap in front of the same guy who fought cap because he believes she needs to die.

Does he kill her? No. What does he do instead? Alerts Cap and the avengers. WTF?! Someone please explain that logic to me. Suddenly he agrees with Cap? Unless this turns out to be part of the plan between Hope and Wolverine to somehow trick the Avengers into believing Wolvie still supports their Agenda I just can't forgive this issue and the complete contradictory behavior that (insert any and all of the dozens of writers responsible for this event) have provided for Wolverine.

To say something positive about this issue, the opening with Wolverine wearing a dead Polar Bear to keep warm while following a trail of Beer left by Hope was great.

FINALLY, after my rant above one of the books finally ends the madness of Wolverine's recent behavior and the character development that Jason Aaron has been working on all this time remains intact. WatXM #11 was a good read and shows what led to him alerting Cap even though he just fought him over feeling the need to kill hope.

Further proof that the main storyline is lacking in comparison to its tie-in's and that this book will likely read a whole lot better in its collected form then just attempting to follow the main storylines. The best comparison I have would be Blackest night, not in terms of quality (for blackest night was a far superior event IMO), but in terms of cohesiveness. The main storylines of blackest night left all sorts of wtf just happened and where did he just come from moments that made me hate it...until I read all the other tie-in's that brought it all together. I still hate that you have to get all those other books just to enjoy the damn story, but it appears that AvX is following that very same formula as I have so far thoroughly enjoyed the event so far when considering the tie in storylines that have I've integrated.