Avengers & X-Men: AXIS, also just called AXIS, is a 2014 Marvel Event written by Rick Remender and penciled by Adam Kubert, Leinil Francis Yu, Terry Dodson, and Jim Cheung. This event put the Avengers, the X-Men, and a group of villains against Red Skull after he succeeded to harness the powers of Onslaught and the recently deceased Professor Xavier.
From Marvel Official synopsis: The Red Onslaught is broadcasting waves of telepathic hate across the globe, and Marvel’s greatest heroes have turned on their moral axis! What will the Avengers and X-Men find in the Red Skull’s bleak re-education camps? What is Tony Stark’s dark secret? And with the heroes “inverted” to evil, who will stand against them? Witness the good go bad, as AXIS turns the Marvel Universe on its head!
What to read before Avengers & X-Men: AXIS?
following the conclusion of the Avengers vs. X-Men, a superhero team composed of members of the Avengers and X-Men came together, known as the Avengers Unity Squad. This team has been created by Rick Remender and John Cassaday in the title Uncanny Avengers, their stories can be used as a build-up towards the event.
- Uncanny Avengers Vol. 1: The Red Shadow
Collects Uncanny Avengers vol. 1 #1–5 - Uncanny Avengers Vol. 2: The Apocalypse Twins
Collects Uncanny Avengers vol. 1 #6–11, 8AU - Uncanny Avengers Vol. 3: Ragnarok Now
Collects Uncanny Avengers vol. 1 #12–17 - Uncanny Avengers Vol. 4: Avenge the Earth
Collects Uncanny Avengers vol. 1 #18–22
Avengers & X-Men: AXIS Reading Order: Collected Editions
No Omnibus or Companion book to the event exists for Avenger & X-Men: AXIS. It means you’ll need to put your hands on a number of collected editions to collect the tie-ins.
- Uncanny Avengers Vol. 5: Axis Prelude
Collects Uncanny Avengers #23-25, Magneto #9-10, Uncanny Avengers Annual #1. - Captain America Vol. 5: The Tomorrow Soldier
Collects Captain America 22-25, Marvel 75th Anniversary Celebration (Captain America story). - Loki: Agent of Asgard Vol. 2: I Cannot Tell a Lie
Collects Loki: Agent Of Asgard (2014) #6-11. - Avengers & X-Men: Axis
(main event)
Collects Avengers & X-Men: Axis #1-9 - Axis: Revolutions
Collects Axis: Revolutions #1-4 - All-New X-Factor Vol. 3: Axis
Collects All-New X-Factor #13-20 - Nova Vol. 5: Axis
Collects Nova (2013) #23-27 - Deadpool Vol. 7: Axis
Collects Collects Deadpool (2012) #35-40. - Axis: Carnage & Hobgoblin
Collects Axis: Hobgoblin #1-3, Axis: Carnage #1-3. - Avengers World Vol. 3: Next World
Collects Avengers World #10-16. - Inhumans Vol. 2: Axis
Collects Inhumans #7-12 - Superior Iron Man Vol. 1: Infamous
Collects Superior Iron Man #1-5. - Captain America & The Mighty Avengers
Collects Captain America & The Mighty Avengers #1-7. - Amazing X-Men Vol. 3: Once & Future Juggernaut
Collects Amazing X-Men #13-19, Annual #1. - Magneto Vol. 2: Reversals
Collects Magneto #7-12.
Avengers & X-Men: AXIS: Issue by Issue
March to AXIS
- Captain America #22-25
- Loki: Agent of Asgard #6
- Magneto #9-10
- Uncanny Avengers #24-25 (Death of Wolverine takes place between issue #24 and #25)
Avengers & X-Men: AXIS
- Avengers & X-Men Axis #1-2
- Axis: Revolutions #1
- Loki: Agent of Asgard #7
- Magneto #11
- Avengers & X-Men: Axis #3
- Magneto #12
- Deadpool #36
- All-New X-Factor #15-16
- Inhuman #9-10
- Avengers & X-Men: Axis #4
- Superior Iron Man #1
- Axis: Hobgoblin #1-3
- Axis: Carnage #1-3
- Captain America & The Mighty Avengers #1-3
- Deadpool #37
- All-New X-Factor #17
- Amazing X-Men #14
- Avengers & X-Men: Axis #5
- Nova #23-24
- Avengers World #15-16
- Axis: Revolutions #2-4
- Loki: Agent of Axis #8
- Avengers & X-Men: Axis #6
- Superior Iron Man #2-3
- Wolverine & The X-Men #12
- Deadpool #38
- Avengers & X-Men: Axis #7-9
- Loki: Agent of Asgard #9
- Deadpool #39
- Nova #25
After Avengers & X-Men: AXIS
Marvel relaunched Uncanny Avengers after the event with a new line-up and a story dealing with some of the consequences of AXIS in Uncanny Avengers Vol. 1: Counter-Evolutionary.