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Avengers vs. X-Men: It's Coming #[nn]
Avengers vs. X-Men: It's Coming (April 2012) serves as the official narrative on-ramp to Marvel's line-wide AvX crossover event, gathering in a single volume the seven single issues that collectively dramatize why the Avengers and X-Men arrived at open war over the Phoenix Force and Hope Summers. By reprinting House of M #8, X-Men: Second Coming #1, Avengers: The Children's Crusade #7, and Avengers: X-Sanction #1 alongside X-Men: Schism #5, Magneto: Not A Hero #1, and a Point One excerpt, the collection traces an unbroken causal chain from the Scarlet Witch's 'No More Mutants' decimation through Cable's return and the first cross-franchise team clashes — making the ideological stakes of AvX legible to readers who had not followed every preceding X-Men or Avengers title. The inclusion of Avengers: X-Sanction #1, which Marvel editorial explicitly called the 'starting gun' for AvX, gives the collection genuine connective tissue to the main event rather than mere context.
"House of M Part 8" delivers a haunting, emotionally charged chapter in the aftermath of the House of M reality, where only a few heroes retain memories of the altered world. Brian Michael Bendis and Olivier Coipel lead a powerful narrative as Peter Parker grapples with the return of Gwen and Uncle Ben’s deaths, while the X-Men face chaos on the mansion grounds and the Avengers hunt the missing Scarlet Witch. Cover by Jim Cheung captures the tension, as mutantkind’s fate hangs in the balance.
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The collection was assembled and released on April 25, 2012, timed to coincide with the launch of the Avengers vs. X-Men main series, under collection editor Jennifer Grünwald and senior editor of special projects Jeff Youngquist, with Axel Alonso serving as editor-in-chief. Its component issues span roughly six years of publication history and five different creative teams: Jeph Loeb and Ed McGuinness on Avengers: X-Sanction #1 (a project originally announced as 'Cable Reborn' before being retitled), Allan Heinberg and Jim Cheung on The Children's Crusade #7, Craig Kyle and Chris Yost with artist David Finch on X-Men: Second Coming #1, Brian Michael Bendis and Olivier Coipel on House of M #8, and Jason Aaron on X-Men: Schism #5. The wraparound cover of the trade dress was adapted from the Jim Cheung variant cover originally produced for Avengers vs. X-Men #0.
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- This is a trade paperback collection — not an original single issue — containing no new material; it reprints seven previously published issues: Avengers: The Children's Crusade #7, X-Men: Schism #5, Magneto: Not A Hero #1, X-Men: Second Coming #1, House of M #8, Avengers: X-Sanction #1, and an excerpt from Point One #1.
- Avengers: X-Sanction #1 (Jeph Loeb / Ed McGuinness, 2011) — reprinted here — marks the return of Cable (Nathan Summers) to the Marvel Universe after his apparent death in Second Coming, framing him as a man with 24 hours to live who believes the Avengers are responsible for a future in which Hope Summers does not survive.
- Avengers: X-Sanction #1 also contains the first appearance of Blaquesmith of Earth-12201, Cable's future-timeline ally who appears in flashback to explain Cable's mission.
- X-Men: Second Coming #1 (2010, Craig Kyle / Chris Yost / David Finch) — reprinted here — depicts Cable and Hope Summers' return to the present day and their immediate assault by anti-mutant forces, depicting Hope as the first mutant born since M-Day and the figure Cyclops positions as mutantkind's messiah.
- Avengers: The Children's Crusade #7 (Allan Heinberg / Jim Cheung) — reprinted here — stages an early direct confrontation between the Avengers and the X-Men over custody of the returning Scarlet Witch, prefiguring the full-scale AvX conflict; within the broader nine-issue arc, Stature is killed and the Vision is destroyed by Iron Lad in the aftermath of Doctor Doom briefly wielding the Life Force.
- The writers credited across this collection's component issues include Brian Michael Bendis, Jason Aaron, Allan Heinberg, Craig Kyle, Chris Yost, and Jeph Loeb — representing nearly the full creative summit that would go on to craft the main AvX series.
- Marvel's editorial team and the ComicBookHerald reading-order guide both position this collection as a prologue rather than a core AvX title, useful for readers needing to understand the preceding years of X-Men and Avengers continuity before entering the twelve-issue main event.
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The heroes wake up from their experience of the House of M reality but only a select few can remember what has happened. Peter Parker takes it especially hard as both Gwen and Uncle Ben are once again dead. At X-Mansion, the X-Men are in chaos as many of the mutants, including Iceman and Dani Moonstar, seem to have lost their powers. Emma uses Cerebro and discovers that only a handful of mutants still exist on earth. The Avengers search for the Scarlet Witch but cannot find her. The X-Men travel to Genosha to confront Magneto but discover that he has lost his powers as well.
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