While we’ve already seen some fists fly between Marvel’s two superhero groups during the Allan Heinberg helmed Childrens Crusade, it looks like the publisher is taking it a step further beginning next year as we see the two teams collide for the fate of the Phoenix Force, which has come back to Earth to claim a new host.

Click the image below for the much larger, much more badass version:

Lakers & Celtics; Ali & Frazier; Yankees & Red Sox; and in comics it’s the Avengers fighting the X-Men. We’ve brought together the biggest writers, biggest artists and biggest characters for the biggest story we’ve ever told. This is the kind of high-octane action-packed story that fans demand while also having a profound effect on every character involved—and reshaping the Marvel Universe in its wake. (Axel Alonso – Marvel Entertainment Editor-in-Chief)

The series, according to Marvel, will be a twelve issue, bi-weekly event that will feature writers Brian Michael Bendis, Jason Aaron, Jonathan Hickman, Matt Fraction and Ed Brubaker all sharing the writing duties. In the art department, Avengers vs. X-Men will be drawn by Olivier Coipel, John Romita Jr. and Adam Kubert.

The first issue of Avengers vs. X-Men will arrive in April of 2012.

For more info, check out Marvel.com.

Tweet