Luke’s Review: Uncanny Avengers
Jonathan Hickman is doing one type of sprawling epic long form story telling, first in SHEILD, then in Fantastic Four/FF and now in Avengers/New Avengers. His stories play with big ideas, layered stories and narratives that all intertwine back in the end.
Rick Remender is doing a different type of epic long form story telling. Less sprawling, but no less epic and no less satisfying. The stories are as much about the characters and their relationships as the events they are caught up in. His last series gave us Kid Apocalypse and the best Fantomax stories to date. He also wrote some Age of Apocalypse stories, maybe better than the original.
His current series is Uncanny Avengers and I am loving it. The book is about trying to make a team out of both X-Men and Avengers, by an untrusted borderline outsider. Havok, brother of Cyclops (who is now a villain, more or less), has always been an outsider in the X-Men. Even when he was part of a team or a series it was always because he was not Cyclops.
In this series he is being micromanaged by Captain America and given a team of super powerful misfits. Wolverine, Sunfire, and Rogue from the X-Men side. Thor, Wasp and Wonder Man from the Avengers. And Scarlet Witch, who not so long ago destroyed the Avengers and the took away the mutant powers of 90% of the mutants in the world.
The first arc is about trying to make a team out of these conflicting personalities and stopping the Red Skull from desecrating the corpse of Professor X. It gets crazier from there, the latest series is set in the future after the earth has been destroyed and the remains of the Uncanny Avengers are trying to right the past, it is crazy good and Rememder gets telling character driven epic comics, a strange but great mix you don’t see as often.
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