Skimmed it mostly. Too cartoonish. Not my cup of tea. ( )

The first story in this book was fantastic, wonderful, amazing. In short, I loved it. Cyclops has stolen Cap’s Bucky Bear and he assembles the Avengers to rescue him. This story was such a delight with all the characters as baby versions of the regular ones. Though obviously toned down from the real AVX crossover, there is still a lot of sly adult humor that made me laugh aloud. Unfortunately, everything after that went downhill fast.

The rest of the stories involve kid versions (though not the babies from the first story) of the heroes being manipulated by some villain called Mojo; and it was a piping hot mess. The panels are unbelievably crowded, both visually and with lots and lots of text boxes, most of which are not dialog. It’s actually a chore trying to read what is happening. As another reviewer pointed out, there’s a lot of mumbo jumbo about ratings and tv that just kinda blended together. The best thing about the book is the names for the X-Babies (Wolvie, Shower, Sugah, Cyke, etc). But that is literally the only redeeming thing. The “plots” were unclear, babbling nonsense. I ended up skimming most of the material.

The books ends on a high note with an entire gallery of Skottie Young’s beautiful hero baby cover art. Overall, other than the gallery, this book was a total waste for me since I got the first story in the AVX hardcover collection anyway. Though, I will say, the amount of material is well worth the price. Too bad the same can’t be said of the quality. Sadly, not recommended. Pick up the one-shot of the first story and skip this. ( )