Uncanny Avengers #1
Summary: This one kicks off with somebody apparently cutting into the brain of Avalanche, before setting him loose. From there we head to X-Mansion/the Jean Grey School where Wolverine says a eulogy for Professor X... And does a pretty damn good job of it. I have a couple of things to say about that, but I'll save it for the "Thoughts" portion of this post. Next up we go to Havok, who has stopped by the Brig, which is currently holding his brother, Lord Summers/Cyclops. Havok does a magnificent job of dressing down Lord Summers for his recent actions, going so far as to call Utopia "Magneto Island". Personally I always called it Crazy Mutie Island, but to each their own. Havok ends the conversation by telling Lord Summers that it was really nice that Lord Summers basically forgot/ignored all of the things Prof. X tried to teach Lord Summers, and then murdered Prof. X to boot. On the way out, Captain America and Thor invite Havok out for a cup of coffee. At Avengers Mansion, Cap and Thor try to convince Havok to lead a joint team of Avengers and X-Men, to try to keep Prof. X's dream of mutant and human coexistence alive. Havok doesn't feel he's the man for the job, but before he can be pressured any further, Avalanche attacks Midtown Manhattan, tearing the streets apart and destroying buildings. Cap, Thor and Havok rush out to help, with Thor and Havok rescuing civilians and Cap confronting Avalanche. Avalanche babbles about this being the inciting act before jumping off of a several story high chunk of street. Next up, we head back to X-Mansion, where the Scarlet Witch is paying her respects to the Prof. Rogue comes by and bitches Wanda out for the whole, "No More Mutants" thing and claims Wanda had always hid among the humans(as a member of the Avengers). Wanda's retort is brilliant, and is something else I need to touch on in the "Thoughts" section of this post. Eventually the argument breaks down into a fight, and the two are hit by an explosion and confronted by a bunch of strange, powered beings. The beings kidnap the two women(or maybe just one, it was hard to tell) and quickly leave. This issue ends with the leader of the beings cutting out the brain of Prof. X(!?!?!), stating that with that brain he could eradicate the mutant menace. And the leader? The Red Skull!
Thoughts: Wooo, I have a lot to say about this one... First off, I thought it was a great first issue. It balanced the Avengers and X-Men sides of things well, gave us a good cliffhanger and was full of really great moments. Now, those few things I wanted to talk about... I have to say, this issue really made me realize what a great job Marvel has done turning Wolverine from a crazed, murder machine, with little to no conscience, to a legitimate leader. I was one of those people who groaned(loudly) about Wolverine being put on the Avengers(and still don't particularly like that fact due to his colorful past...), but I can get it now. His character has evolved SO MUCH from the one dimensional berserker from back in the 1980's-1990's. I hated Wolvie heading up a school, but I can see why he did it. Oddly enough, out of everybody who has been an X-Man, Prof. X is probably the most revered by Wolvie, due to all of the mental help the Prof. gave him those early years, when Wolvie struggled the most with his animal side. So yeah, go figure, I see Wolverine as a human being now, and not just a crazed animal. Next up was the conversation between Wanda and Rogue... I've never been shy about how much I hated the whole, "No More Mutants" decree that screwed up the X-books for so many years. It led to some repetitious and downright terrible stories. However, Rick Remender makes a great point through Wanda here... Why the hell was it so important for there to be more mutants? So the mutant population was decimated... So like 90%+ of the mutant population was depowered... So what? So former mutants were now normal? Big deal. So when the remaining 198 mutants died there's be no more? And that's a problem because? Seriously, why was Lord Summers so damn keen on there being more mutants? I honestly never really looked at it that way, I looked at it the simpler, "I wish there were more mutants because the X-books are really boring now..." way, but why was all of mutantkind so pissed with Wanda? Hell, if anything, she did them a favor. If the remaining mutants would have quietly retired/joined the Avengers/a million other things besides become crazed militants on an island, wouldn't they have been able to live out the rest of their lives in peace? Sure, that's a really simplistic way of looking at it, but why couldn't, say Emma Frost, who could easily pass as a human, dye her hair and just live a nice, quiet, happy life in nowhere-ville USA? Wanda is totally right here, obviously a large majority of the X-Men flat out love being martyrs. It was a very powerful argument So there's that. Now let's try to get back to the main story here. I loved Havok's interaction with... Well, everybody, from Lord Summers(who it appears Marvel is going to smartly keep evil), to Cap and Thor. As a long-time Havok fan, I am really excited to see Alex get a huge role going forward. The Red Skull reveal was kind of strange... I'm guessing that's the original Skull, and not Sin, although we only saw the head and not the body, so I guess it COULD be Sin. Although it's probably not. I'm cool with the original Skull being the first villain in this series because he is a big enough threat to actually face the Avengers, plus, as a crazed Nazi, he WOULD hate mutantkind. I don't get a) how he got Prof. X's brain, or b) how he plans on using it, but it should be fun finding out the answers to those questions. In closing, this comic was NEARLY perfect. If not for a few small bumps(mainly the Red Skull and his whole brain-snatching thing), it would have been perfect. As it is though, I'm going to give it a...
Score: 9 1/2 out of 10.
Wow, Wanda just verbally kicked Rogue's ass there...
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