Marvel is in full-on sell mode with their upcoming big Summer event that pits Marvel’s two most popular superhero teams — the Avengers and the X-Men — against each other.

The event is being led by some of Marvel’s best creative types including Brian Michael Bendis, Jason Aaron, Matt Fraction, Jonathan Hickman, Ed Brubaker, John Romita Jr., Adam Kubert and Olivier Copiel. The cover art for issue #1 of Avengers vs. X-Men comes to us from Jim Cheung. Check out the cover art here below.

The story finds the two teams in radical disagreement on the arrival of the Phoenix Force. Cyclops believes the arrival will save mankind while Captain America is convinced it means man’s ultimate destruction.

The cover art is cool, but it honestly it feels more like poster art or marketing material than it does the cover to an awesome new Summer event. The cover for issue #0 was released back in December.

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