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Avengers: X-Sanction (Avengers (Marvel Hardcover)) [Hardcover]

Jeph Loeb , Ed McGuinness
2.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)

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May 16, 2012 Avengers (Marvel Hardcover)
Cable is back! And he's got just 24 hours to wipe the Avengers from the pages of history! How has Cable been reborn? Where has he been since "Second Coming"? And what dark event has driven him to destroy the Avengers? The answers are just the tip of an iceberg that threatens to smash the Marvel Universe to smithereens! A crucial new series by the creators behind SUPERMAN/BATMAN and HULK, Jeph Loeb and Ed McGuinness, setting up 2012's status quo-shattering epic!

COLLECTING: Avengers : X-Sanction 1-4


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  • Hardcover: 112 pages
  • Publisher: Marvel (May 16, 2012)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0785158626
  • ISBN-13: 978-0785158622
  • Product Dimensions: 7.6 x 0.7 x 11.1 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 2.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #463,767 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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14 of 17 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars Prelude to AVX May 1, 2012
By Ant
Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase
Avengers X-Sanction by Jeph Loeb and Ed McGuinness is a difficult product to review. In terms of story there's really not much here it's almost more of a lead in to the AVX miniseries than the actual Avengers vs X-Men event because it really is all action. There are a couple interesting developments (particulaly at the end) but all in all its really just an excuse to see Cable and the Avengers tear into one another. With an artist like McGuinness that's really not a bad thing, but be warned if you are not a fan of McGuiness don't waste your time with this book. As for myself I find his style quite enjoyable, he's easily one of the industries top artists for superhero throwdowns and as such his work really shines here. If that were all there was to it I'd give the book 4 out of 5 stars, unfortunatley Marvel's added another layer of dissapointment.

Marvel's become increasingly skimpy on the collections, 4 issues isn't much material it makes even an oversized hardcover look dinky. Charging $19.99 for Uncanny X-Force or Wolverine and the X-Men seems less than reasonable to me, charging $24.99 for X-Sanction, unforgivable. Marvel is clearly just trying to cash in on some of their most popular characters and event fever by adding the extra 5 bucks. It wouldn't be so bad if there was more material but there's actually less, considering McGuiness' penchant for the 2-page spread you're really only looking at about 70 pages of story most of which are light on exposition. Sure there are a few extras, covers, some pieces from McGuiness' sketchbook, but it's not enough. It would not be at all unusual to blow through this entire collection in less than 30 minutes. I got my hardcover for $10 thanks to a pricing error form amazon and even then I'm not sure I got my money's worth.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars Brainless October 18, 2012
Format:Hardcover
Cable goes back in time from the future to stop the Avengers from doing something that will result in the death of his adopted daughter Hope - to save Hope, and the future of mutant-kind, he must kill the Avengers. Here's the whole "story": Cable fights Captain America. Cable fights Iron Man. Cable fights Red Hulk.

I won't say what happens in the end but it renders everything that went before it completely pointless. There is a revelation regarding Hope and the extent of her powers but it's not enough to justify spending 4 issues (the length of the book - the rest is fluffed out with covers and more covers and sketches, yawn) basically having Cable fighting (and defeating!) most of the Avengers.

"X-Sanction" has an interesting premise but is let down by an uninspired script that has the costumed heroes battering at each other until the pages run out revealing a distinct lack of ideas from Loeb. It foreshadows the upcoming "Avengers Vs X-Men" storyline but doesn't contribute enough to prevent you from understanding that overall arc so "X-Sanction" is definitely missable.
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14 of 21 people found the following review helpful
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When are dead people going to stay dead? When are time travellers from the future going to stop screwing up with the present?
I guess the answer to both the questions would be.."Never"..at least , not in the Marvel Universe.
Cable, as many would have guessed long back, is alive and well (well, not completely well as he's battling the techno-organic virus) and he's out to bring down the avengers ..for good.
When the "Cable" series came out (after the "Messiah Complex" blockbuster event) it was mainly based on the war/conflict between time-travellers Cable and Bishop. Both were fighting for saving mutantkind but were on opposite sides of the fence because Cable believed that Hope would save mutantkind and Bishop believed that Hope would be the end of mutantkind.
Now, after reading this book, I was suddenly made to feel that Cable is hardly ANY different than Bishop. Why? Because Cable is ALSO ready to kill to save mutantkind. And that too Kill, without any proper reason. Cable wants to kill the Avengers just because he has got "intel" , obviously in the future, that mutantkind will be doomed because the Avengers, well, "do away" with Hope. The Avengers are the good guys. Is Cable daft or retarded or something? How can he even believe a team of super-heroes will do something to wipe a species out of existence (that too when he is already familiar with some members of avengers)?? This is really bulls##t. Even though it's fiction, Loeb should write something which at least is believable to some extent. But, then what am I saying? This is the fellow who wrote Red-hulk.
Also, another thing I didn't like is that when Wolverine bursts in on the scene when Cable is taking down the Avengers, then he talks about killing Cable.
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6 of 9 people found the following review helpful
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After Jeph Loeb came back to Marvel from writing for DC there was dip in the quality of his work. I loved Batman: Hush and the first three volumes of Superman/Batman, as well as some of his older work like Batman: The Long Halloween, Spider-Man Blue, Daredevil Yellow and Hulk Grey. I used to consider myself a fan of Jeph Loeb but everything he does now days sucks, including this book. I say it's the "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" of comics because like that movie it's all about the the visuals and less about the story. It's fast paced, loud, and over the top. There are parts in the book where there are about 3 words per page because it's all action. Someone said Cable acts like a madman, and that is correct. You don't really get to see the Cable you grew so fondly of after (or before) Messiah CompleX. I felt the art was too simple. I enjoyed Ed McGuinness' art back at DC, or even on Hulk, much more than in this story.
I don't think I would recommend this book unless you are only interested in getting ready for Avengers vs. X-men.
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