A + X #6 !!!

A + X #6 Gambit + Thing and Wolverine + Captain Marvel with this month’s theme being Poker games and bluffing.  Wolverine and Captain Marvel were in a poker game showdown with each trying to get the upper hand in a battle of wills.  They argue and then the Avengers Tower is broken into by someone in a big suit of power armor calling itself the End.  Captain Marvel asks the End a “who would win” question and the next thing you see is Hawkeye and Spider-Woman running into the room to see the three not fighting but playing poker.  The second story of The Thing and Gambit starts with the Thing playing poker with the Yancy Street Gang (well three of them anyway) before the game starts the Gang brings in a ringer who turns out to be Gambit.  Gambit and the Thing have a history that the reader gets to see.  In the end it turns out The Thing and Gambit ran a scam and stole the pot from the Yancy Street Gang.  Both stories were well told and entertaining – I was entertained.

Avengers Plus X-men

A+X issue #3 was not nearly as good as previous issues.  Part one was the #*#&&#$ Black Panther and Storm.  Apparently they got married at one time and this was the post-divorce all talking story.  The backup story was Hawkeye and Gambit fighting over a girl, not an original story at all.  They had to save an actress from what looked like a Murloc from World of Warcraft.  The good guys win the end.  Since both characters normally have great dialog (especially Hawkeye in his own book) but in this story the witty banter was very flat.  It just added to the disappointment in this issue of A+X.