{"id":176,"date":"2015-05-19T03:15:16","date_gmt":"2015-05-19T03:15:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.codyscomiccorner.com\/?p=176"},"modified":"2015-05-19T06:01:12","modified_gmt":"2015-05-19T13:01:12","slug":"uncanny-avengers-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.codyscomiccorner.com\/?p=176","title":{"rendered":"Uncanny Avengers 4"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oh look, the next issue is apparently the last! \u00a0Well then, I guess I won\u2019t get too worked up over anything that happens in this series\u2026 particularly since it seems its sole purpose was to continue the ill-conceived storyline of confirming that Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch are not and never have been<\/em> mutants, much less related to that Magneto guy! \u00a0And in this issue, yeah, the High Evolutionary basically just shrugs and says, \u201cI took you from your parents, made my alterations, then, upon my disappointment, returned you to their care, disguised as common mutants,\u201d and then goes on about his business with a couple more jabs about what disappointments\u00a0they are. \u00a0Yup, guess it just never came up before now, during one of the dozen\u00a0times they\u2019ve\u00a0all encountered each other in the past! \u00a0(Et tu, Bova?) \u00a0And did I mention their \u201csister,\u201d Luminous, the High Evolutionary\u2019s creation who\u2019s faster than Quicksilver and more chaos-magically-adept than Scarlet Witch? \u00a0Can you not see how much this is adding to their characters? \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Otherwise, as far as the rest of the team\u2026 the first volume of Uncanny Avengers focused on a \u201cUnity\u201d team of both X-Men and Avengers, which I thought was a fun idea that never quite had a chance to take off. \u00a0With only a couple appearances outside their title series, they never felt like\u00a0The<\/em> Avengers, just\u2026 some<\/em> Avengers. \u00a0And once the Apocalypse Twins showed up and plummeted the entire series into chronal dams and mutant raptures and alternate timelines and undead Horsemen and a Celestial executioner literally blowing up the planet Earth, it all just felt like so much \u201cWhat If?\u201d fodder; for the whole \u201cPlanet X\u201d story arc, I couldn\u2019t help but feel like nothing I was reading mattered<\/em>, because sooner or later our heroes would reset reality, the characters who\u2019d been killed would be resurrected, and we\u2019d get back to storylines that \u201ccounted.\u201d \u00a0(And then AXIS happened and, well\u2026 time makes fools of us all.) \u00a0Then Rogue had the brilliant idea to start a\u00a0new<\/em> Unity squad alongside the Scarlet Witch, conveniently forgetting that roughly one hundred percent<\/em> of the threats faced by the Uncanny Avengers could be traced back to the Scarlet Witch one way or another. \u00a0So this series also features Sam Wilson as\u00a0Captain America,\u00a0Vision, inexplicably-resurrected Rick-Remender-pet-favorite Doctor Voodoo, and good-guy Uncle Sabretooth, who joined the Avengers between issues (and, as revealed in The Rage of Ultron, is\u00a0kept locked inside a cell<\/em> in Avengers Tower when not on-mission\u2026 \u201cCan\u2019t be too careful!\u201d declare our heroes!). \u00a0 But in this issue, even Rogue seems mildly frustrated at this series, referring to her \u201cstopgap Unity squad. \u00a0And we\u2019re scattered. \u00a0As usual<\/em>.\u201d \u00a0Before we even get to see this team of Avengers interact as a team — arguably the entire point of an Avengers series — they\u2019re\u00a0immediately<\/em> separated across Counter Earth; some encounter worse perils than the others, as while the High Evolutionary dispassionately removes Sabretooth\u2019s nervous system whole and intact from his living body, Rogue basically gets tied to a chair by a mad scientist straight out of Labyrinth, and Captain America\u2026 gets turned into a tree-person. \u00a0Hoo-boy. \u00a0So, yeah\u2026 maybe a five-issue run for this series isn\u2019t something to lament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Oh look, the next issue is apparently the last! \u00a0Well then, I guess I won\u2019t get too worked up over anything that happens in this series\u2026 particularly since it seems its sole purpose was to continue the ill-conceived storyline of confirming that Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch are not and never have been mutants, much less […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comic_round-up"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.codyscomiccorner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.codyscomiccorner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.codyscomiccorner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.codyscomiccorner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.codyscomiccorner.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=176"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.codyscomiccorner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":193,"href":"http:\/\/www.codyscomiccorner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions\/193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.codyscomiccorner.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.codyscomiccorner.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.codyscomiccorner.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}