Marvel Disassembled Reading Order
Part 15: Avengers vs. X-Men
New Avengers #21 Cover
Part 15.1: Some Assembly Required
Before diving headfirst into Avengers vs. X-Men, we first need to check in with both of the main Avengers teams as they separately deal with the return of the man who recently orchestrated one of the greatest cons in the history of the Marvel Universe: Norman Osborn! This section also includes Hulk, Moon Knight, Captain America, and other characters on the periphery of the ongoing Avengers saga.
Continuity Note: The appearance of Star-Lord and Thanos in Avengers Assemble may seem like an unexplained error given their recent disappearance in the Cancerverse. Rest assured this will be explained, but not until deep into the Marvel NOW! era.
Reading Order:
X-Factor #224.1
Avengers: The Children’s Crusade #1 – #4
Avengers: The Children’s Crusade - Young Avengers #1
Avengers: The Children’s Crusade #5 – #9
Invincible Iron Man #514 – #527
Avengers #19 – #20
New Avengers #17 – #21
Avengers #21 – #23
New Avengers #22 – #23
Avengers #24, #24.1
Captain America #15 – #18
Hulk #42 – #57
Moon Knight (2011) #1
Daken: Dark Wolverine #10 – #20
Moon Knight #2 – #12
Avengers Assemble #1 – #8
Captain America & Bucky #629 – #635, #635.1, #636 – #640
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X-Men: Regenesis #1 Cover
Part 15.2: Schism and Regenesis
Before fighting the Avengers, the X-Men have another problem to face: themselves! The Schism storyline splits the X-Men in two, with Cyclops leading a team on Utopia while Wolverine returns to the birthplace of the X-Men: the X-Mansion! With a new look and name, Wolverine reopens the institute and tackles his most difficult job yet: running a school. Elsewhere in the mutant community, X-Force leads a dangerous mission that may have apocalyptic ramifications.
Reading Order:
X-Men Legacy #250 – #258
Wolverine #10 – #16
X-Men: Schism #1
X-Men: Prelude to Schism #1 – #4
X-Men: Schism #2 – #3
Generation Hope #10 – #11
X-Men: Schism #4 – #5
X-Men: Regenesis #1
Generation Hope #12
X-Men Legacy #259 – #260
Uncanny X-Men #544
New Mutants #33 – #36
Wolverine #309 – #313, #17 – #20
Wolverine & the X-Men (2011) #1 – #3
Wolverine #300 – #304
Astonishing X-Men #44 – #47
Avengers Academy #22
Uncanny X-Men (2011) #1 – #4
X-Men Legacy #260.1, #261 – #265
Daken #21 – #23
X-23 #17 – #21
X-Factor #225 – #240
Deadpool #32 – #33, #33.1, #34 – #49, #49.1
Uncanny X-Force #10 – #19, #19.1
Age of Apocalypse #1 – #12
Uncanny X-Men #5 – #8
Wolverine & the X-Men #4 – #8, #17
Uncanny X-Force #20 – #24
Deadpool #50 – #57
Uncanny X-Force #25 – #35
Wolverine #305 – #308, #314 – #317
Generation Hope #13 – #17
New Mutants #37 – #41
Exiled #1
Journey Into Mystery #637
New Mutants #42
Journey Into Mystery #638
New Mutants #43 – #49
Journey Into Mystery #639 – #641
X-Treme X-Men #1 – #7
Avengers Academy #23 – #28
Magneto: Not a Hero #1 – #4
X-Men #20 – #37
Astonishing X-Men #48 – #56
Avengers: X-Sanction #1 – #4
Deadpool #58 – #63
Uncanny X-Men #9 – #10
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Avengers vs. X-Men #1 Cover
Part 15.3: Flight of the Phoenix
A brewing conflict between the Avengers and X-Men ignites when the powerful Phoenix Force returns to Earth. While Jean Grey may have been its host in the past, the Phoenix has its sights set on another fiery-haired mutant: Hope. When the Avengers attempt to take Hope into protective custody, Cyclops takes a stand that results in the eruption of war between the two teams.
Reading Order:
Avengers vs. X-Men #0, #1.5, #1
Wolverine & the X-Men #9
New Avengers #24
Avengers vs. X-Men #2
Avengers #25
Avengers vs. X-Men: Versus #1
Uncanny X-Men #11
Avengers vs. X-Men #3
Wolverine & the X-Men #10
Avengers Academy #29 – #31
X-Men Legacy #266 – #267
Secret Avengers #26 – #28
Avengers #26 – #27
Avengers vs. X-Men #4
Wolverine & the X-Men #11
Avengers vs. X-Men: Versus #2, #5
Uncanny X-Men #12
Avengers vs. X-Men #5
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Avengers vs. X-Men #6 Cover
Part 15.4: The Phoenix Five
In a dramatic twist, the latest incarnation of the Phoenix Force chooses not one but five hosts, all of which are members of the X-Men. While the so-called “Phoenix Five” initially set out to reshape the world for the better, the opposition they face leads Cyclops to make a startling declaration: “No More Avengers.”
Reading Order:
Avengers vs. X-Men: Versus #3
Uncanny X-Men #13 – #14
X-Men Legacy #268
Avengers Academy #32 – #33
Avengers vs. X-Men #6, #6.5
New Avengers #25 – #26
Avengers #28
Uncanny X-Men #15 – #17
Avengers #29
Wolverine & the X-Men #12 – #13
Avengers vs. X-Men: Versus #4
New Avengers #29
Avengers vs. X-Men #7 – #8
Avengers vs. X-Men #12 Cover
Part 15.5: A New Hope
The entirety of the Marvel Disassembled era has all been building to this. After the events of House of M, the number of mutants was decimated due to Wanda Maximoff’s famous spell. Now embodied with the power of the Phoenix Force, Cyclops and other X-Men see a way to reignite the mutant population. But could it come at the cost of freedom for the human race? In a last-ditch effort to save the world, the Avengers work with Wanda and Hope to stop Cyclops before he makes a cataclysmic error that will haunt him forever.
Reading Order:
New Avengers #27 – #28
X-Men Legacy #269 – #270
Wolverine & the X-Men #14
Avengers vs. X-Men #10.5, #9 – #10
Wolverine & the X-Men #15 – #16
Avengers Academy #34 – #37
X-Men Legacy #271 – #273
Avengers vs. X-Men #11
Uncanny X-Men #18
Avengers vs. X-Men: Versus #6
Avengers vs X-Men #12
Uncanny X-Men #19
Avengers #34 Cover
Part 15.6: End Times
The conflict between the Avengers and X-Men has been settled but not forgotten. While each team picks of the pieces, we close out the Marvel Disassembled era with some parting storylines that wrap up Brian Michael Bendis’s historic Avengers run and begin to tease the next era.
Reading Order:
Wolverine and the X-Men #18
New Avengers #30
Avengers #30
Uncanny X-Men #20
New Avengers #31 – #34
X-Men Legacy #274 – #275
New Mutants #50
Avengers Academy #38 – #39
X-Factor #241 – #245
Secret Avengers #29 – #37
Venom #28 – #30
Dark Avengers #175 – #183
The Mighty Thor #18
Journey Into Mystery #642
The Mighty Thor #19
Journey Into Mystery #643
The Mighty Thor #20
Journey Into Mystery #644
The Mighty Thor #21
Journey Into Mystery #645
The Mighty Thor #22
Avengers #31 – #34