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Dark Avengers: Iron Patriot, Hawkeye, Ares, Sentry, Ms Marvel, Wolverine and Namor vs the X-Men: Archangel, Psylocke, Emma Frost, Pixie, Cyclops and Colossus! After a mutant riot and an anti-mutant riot in San Francisco, Norman Osborn tries to enforce peace by creating his own team of Dark X-Men to serve in much the same way the Dark Avengers did, and using both his teams to bring down the real X-Men.

Steven McNiven is a comic book artist. He first gained prominence on CrossGen's Meridian, before moving onto books such as Ultimate Secret, New Avengers and Civil War.

He was named in August 2005 as one of Marvel's "Young Guns", a group of artists that, according to Marvel Editor-in-Chief Joe Quesada, have the qualities that make "a future superstar penciller". Other "Young Guns" include Olivier Coipel, David Finch, Trevor Hairsine, Adi Granov and Jim Cheung McNiven was the penciller of the Marvel mini-series Civil War working with Mark Millar. He followed this by provided the art fo