X-Men: The Avengers : Friend or Foe? Book

The Gamma Quest trilogy succeeds quite well in everything it attempts to accomplish, which is to provide an extended prose version of a mighty Marvel team-up adventure. The first thing the Marvel heroes have to do when they meet is have a big fight, then figure out there's a super villain behind the problem that they'd be better off fighting, then split into small groups for separate quests within the frame-work of a big team quest, assign team leaders (one of whom should be Cap), flirt with one another, fight some more, have hair-raising adventures and nick-of-time escapes, rescue their comrades, shake hands and promise to stay in touch, prepare to repeat next month. The X-Men and Avengers are the two biggest (in both senses of the word) teams in comics, and Cox set them up and carried them through quite well. I thought he captured the personalities and voices of almost all of the characters quite convincingly, and though I wasn't ever really surprised, neither was I disappointed. I don't see it as a trilogy so much as one long story that happened to be printed in three volumes; there are no good break or entry points, and I don't think anyone reading them out of sequence would get much from them. Altogether, lots of fun Marvel mayhem, lots of fun interaction between characters that don't normally spend much time together, and a good time is had by all. Excelsior!