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Avengers Vs X-Men Infinite Comic (2012 series) #6

Jun 2012 on-sale: Jun 20, 2012

Mark Waid
writer
 |  Carlo Barberi
penciler

Avengers Vs X-Men Infinite Comic (2012 series) #6 cover

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... in a handful of dust


Synopsis

Avengers Vs X-Men Infinite Comic (2012 series) #6 synopsis by reviewer Rob Johnson
Rating: 4 stars

The issue opens with the Phoenix-powered Cyclops hovering over the improved Utopia Island where we see some X-Men enjoying time out from trouble. Scott Summers also takes time out to reflect on what's happened to him. Since the Phoenix Force made him telepathic (at the end of Avengers Vs X-Men #5) he can hear *everybody*'s thoughts and can't tune them out. So he teleports himself to the Moon ...

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... to give himself space to think. He wonders how Jean Grey handled it so young before she died (in XM#137). The PF has made his memories of her much fresher and more painful. And now they've guided his feet to the Blue Area of the Moon where she died. He remembers himself and the X-Men fighting the Shi'ar Imperial Guard to save her. And then he comes across the very weapon his love used to commit suicide. But he can't feel anything.

To help him make sense of everything he uses his new powers to create a simulacrum of his dead love out of Moondust, and brings it to life. She compliments his new Phoenix-y costume, and on how well he's used the Phoenix power ... so far. She remembers that when the Force took *her* over it amplified her emotions. But it gave her a glimpse of infinity, which made everything else seem inconsequential. Scott counters that he on the other hand was always repressed, so he's the person best suited to rein the PF in. But Jean replies that losing control isn't the problem, losing perspective *is*. She thinks he was worried about losing emotional connection with his past so he came here to the site of the most traumatic moment of his life ... and feels nothing. He worries that he's losing his humanity. She responds that if he still had it would he have recreated her corpse out of dust.

He lets her crumble back to dust and flies away from the Moon. He now knows that he'll have to fight to stop the Phoenix changing him - to remember what he's fighting *for*.

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CYCLOPS  
Cyclops
(Scott Summers)


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Main/1st Story Full Credits

Carlo Barberi
Carlo Barberi
Marte Gracia
Carlo Barberi (Cover Penciler)
Carlo Barberi (Cover Inker)
Marte Gracia (Cover Colorist)
Additional Credits
Layouts: Yves Bigerel. Letterer: Chris Eliopoulos.
Editor: Nick Lowe. Editor-in-chief: Axel Alonso.



Review / Commentaries


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Avengers Vs X-Men Infinite Comic (2012 series) #6 Review by (January 10, 2026)
Mark Waid and Yves Bigerel co-plotted the issue.

This issue is designed to be connected with Avengers Vs X-Men #6. The image of Cyclops hovering in the sky watching X-Men enjoying themselves as a backdrop to pages 3-9 is similar to that on page 6 panel 3 of AVX#6. So this whole issue possibly happens between there and p6.4 where he meets Charles Xavier.
The chars we see here are Gambit & Cannonball in the foreground, Sunspot & Velocidad playing soccer with Primal in the background with 2 others. To match the people in the other scene those other 2 would have to be Glob Herman & Psylocke, but I can't say they look like them.

In this issue Cyclops continues to fall into the trap of forgetting that it *wasn't* Jean Grey in XM#101-137, it was just the Phoenix Force. Jean was elsewhere in suspended animation.
Admittedly things got more complicated later. Jean was revived (in the issues leading into X-Factor #1). She was given the memories of the PF's time as her. And then she *did* die (in New XM #150).





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