The X-Men mourn the loss of a legend while an old evil lurks in the darkness.The story starts with the funeral of Professor X. Captain America has a plan to help mutants by creating an Avengers Unity Team with Avengers and Mutants. The goal being that humanity learns to accept mutants because they are Avengers and are protecting humanity. The real story starts when the Nazi mad man The Red Skull steals Charles Xavier's brain and melds it to his own in order to spew his brand of hate. The Red Sku...

It takes a while to get going on John Cassidys art isn't as strong as some of his previous work, but this will read well in trade. It does bother me a little though how Wolverine ALWAYS refers to Charles Xavier as 'Chuck'. I get that that's his nickname, but every single time?And the last issue is pretty great, because it's drawn by Olivier Coipel, who should have drawn the whole arc. He should draw everything ever, actually.

Wanda ejecting Thor into space?! Fuck yes! Ugh and when Rogue tried to steal her powers- it was awesome.

This book is a thinker on the philosophy side of Remender's world, and a dreamer on the crazy villain action side. Remender is a solid writer, pulling out some great ideas to keep Cassaday and Martin busy entertaining us.But the level of bombast in the narration is just too much. I can see what Remender is doing - showing us the old-school comics style that he apparently loves - but I'm struggling to find a way to like it. I grit my teeth through it and just take it for the history lesson that i...

Oh hey, it's a Rick Remender book I managed to read from beginning to end without abandoning it halfway through! It may sound like I'm hating on the guy, but I'm not — I just genuinely have trouble getting into most of his writing. This particular book, though? Not bad. I like the team roster, I like the way Remender writes everybody and gives certain characters some really great moments, and the story, while nothing too special so far, promises to get better in the future. The first arc about R...

For this March, I decided to read only two X-Men titles since I have just wrapped up my 2015 X-Men comics diet and I have other comics and manga I want to get into this year. So I chose to read and review Rick Remeder's Uncanny Avengers by volume, and also tackle my long overdue thoughts concerning Avengers vs. X-Men, a heavy motherfucker of seven-hundred or so pages. It's interesting to read them side-by-side, considering Remender's UX is post-AVX (much like the other MARVEL NOW! titles). I thi...

A good different start to a different Avengers team that's mostly X-men. Very interested to see where this goes.

Three and a half stars.It’s Avenger vs. X-Men, X-Men vs. Avenger, Human vs. Mutant, Mutant vs. Human, Thunder God vs. Mutant, Creepy Meta-Humans against them all and a new and improved Red Skull vs everybody. That crazy Nazi bastard, the Red Skull has upped his loony game. He’s had the brain of Charles Xavier implanted in his noggin without the help of Dr. Leonard “Bones” McCoy using a crash helmet with sticks coming out of it or Mr. Spock. “It’s child’s play, bro”*. His new target for his serio...

Despite the negative reviews, I really liked this story. I am a big House of M fan and have wanted to see Wanda brought into continuity for a long time. The blend of X-Men and Avengers is a good plan considering Wanda always was a mutant Avenger. Pietro could've made an appearance, but oh well.Havok is an interesting choice for leadership. He has always seemed like an unmined character in the Marvel Universe. Combining ex- Brotherhood of Evil Mutant characters was a nice touch.The Red Skull is a...

I haven't read Avengers vs. X-Men, so I wasn't sure what exactly was going on when I started reading. (view spoiler)[Evidently Scott went crazy and killed Professor X? Wow.See, that would have been nice to know before I read this one. (hide spoiler)] Unfortunately, I'd read so many bad reviews for that storyline that I avoided the whole thing. In retrospect, maybe that wasn't such a good idea...I like Havok. Seems like a nice kid, and hopefully this 'team leader' thing will work out for him.Rogu...

This arc reads better as a trade because I can't recall enjoying reading the single issues as much as I read the digital collected edition. I do remember this title losing momentum despite that it was one of my most eagerly awaited launch from the original Marvel NOW initiative.Uncanny Avengers came to being as a result of the Avengers Versus X-Men event. This new Avengers squads brings together members from both its hallowed roster and the X-Men. One could expect sparks and they did! Half of it...

2.5 stars.Nothing about this was really spectacular? As usual, a few characters don't speak like normal human beings? There's a balance to writing in superhero speeches and writing in too many superheroisms into every day speech. A few times here, I felt as though Cap and Havok didn't talk like a human being.I didn't like the way Scarlet Witch was used for 90% of this. Although, aside from some of Busiek's Avengers, I don't like the way most people write Scarlet Witch. I felt like she was just h...

After the events of Avengers Vs X-Men, Captain America came up with an idea to improve their public image by creating a team made up of both Avengers AND X-Men - enter the Uncanny Avengers with their leader, Havok aka Alex Summers, the brother of one of the most notorious characters in the Marvel U, Scott Summers aka Cyclops aka the guy who killed Xavier. Speaking of Xavier, the Red Skull has somehow gotten ahold of his corpse, taken his brain out, and gained his psychic powers! Red Skull assemb...

Like a lot of both DC and Marvel comics for over the past decade this was OK. Also in common with both of the big two's titles there was potential here but that potential was, for the most part unfulfilled.Still a decent follow up/aftermath of the whole A vs X storyline.

1 - The X-Men bury Professor X. Captain America asks Havoc to lead a joint X-Men/Avengers team. Uncanny Avengers is off to a good start. The battle with Avalanche was good and I liked the Scarlet Witch-Rogue confrontation. Red Skull stealing Professor X's brain was a little hokey, though.2 - Rogue and Scarlet Witch try to escape the Red Skull.Okay, this issue was mostly talk. So Red Skull used Xavier's brain to give himself super powers somehow? Okay...On a side note, how powerful is this team s...

***Buddy read with the Shallow Readers! This weeks criteria: Scarlet Witch is red all the time! Plus Thor and Captain America! And it's called THE RED SHADOW which means RED SKULL! I'm killing it***This wasn't everything that I wanted it to be, BUT it has promise to turn into something grand. At least I'm hoping. But realistically the big reason I rated it so low is because I was really confused at first, having no background of the relationship between the Avengers and the X-Men, not to mention...

When Logan is with Thor and other avengers!!!Yay!!!

A decent enough premise for a team, ruined by a dumb story. In the wake of Avengers vs. X-Men, the concept of the team makes perfect sense, from both an in-universe perspective and a storytelling perspective. Put together a team of five heroes, two mutants who were X-Men, two non-mutant Avengers, and one mutant Avenger. Calling it the Unity Division is maybe a little heavy handed, but the entire team is an obvious, somewhat heavy handed gesture. Like I said, it makes perfect sense. It's the make...

This was such a fun read!Cap forms a team of Avengers and X-Men "Unity Squad" and asks Havoc to lead the team but when Red Skull merged with the brain of Xavier control the general population to attack the mutants, well the team dives in to stop this riot and well we have this team face off against the S-Men of Red Skull and also personalities within the team clash, Rogue vs Scarlet witch, Thor vs Wolverine and what not and as passions burn high, will the team be able to stop this Red menace and...

Holy shit this was a freaking blast! So after Xavier is killed by Cyclops, the world isn't to fond of mutants. This is nothing new, but Captain America decides to try and fix it. Try to join forces with mutants to show a public PR face. He chooses Scott Summer's brother, Alex, and together they create the Uncanny Avengers. Of course something awful has to bring them all together. Red Skull has taken Xaiver's brain and is using it to have people murder mutants and non-mutants alike while claiming...