Marvel sets up a mystery and also brings back a dead character...or two?

February 28th, 2013, 02:45 pm

Marvel sets up a mystery and also brings back a dead character...or two?

Remember that diagram that showed the future of the Marvel Universe in Avengers #5 years ago? That included at its end, The Ultron War?

It looks like Uncanny Avengers #4 is doing the same. Now there are going to be spoilers here. Big honking spoilers. If you don’t want to be spoiled, go away now, because we are going to dissect the final three pages of the issue.

Seriously, massive snooting spoilers.

Fairly straight forward. Remember that originally the Days Of Future Past storyline was meant to take place in 2013. Which, in 1983 was a long way away. Hell, X-Men had only been going for twenty years then. And this is its fiftieth anniversary…

Stark Nimrod. Right. Nimrod was a mutant hunting sentient robot from the future. Mass producing them with Stark Industries would not be a good thing.

Ahab was the Hound Master from the Days Of Future Past timeline, and hunted mutants with enslaved mutants. In our time he was Rory Campbell, trying to evade his fate. Did they torture him to get the information?

Immortus, god-like time/dimension traveller and possible alter ego of Doctor Doom and Kang. The Apocalypse twins locking the timeline down? There’s meant to be a fair bit of time travel going on, with Age Of Ultron and the rumoured death of Wolverine. (Op Note: PLEASE GOD...I love Wolverine and the X-men but no...I'm over him)

Apocalypse twins… any relation to the current Kid Apocalypse? I heard there were big plans for him soon… though we haven’t heard of Point One’s Dragonfire and Coldmoon for quite some time.

Red Skull doing the Charles Xavier pose… the seven became one? Red Skull’s team or the Uncanny Avengers? What did he do to them? What has he left in their brains?

Oh and then the final page.

The evil alter ego of Professor Xavier, Onslaught, with the trepanned and brain removed body of Xavier. Looking good for a corpse over three months old…

Also. Proof positive that the nineties are back! I wonder if Scott Lobdell will get character royalties for this one.

And for starters, this looks like it will be tying into X-Men Legacy #6, also out today. And no, I’m not spoiling that comic’s ending, I’ve done too much.

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Alter egos are so shit.

Nimrod literally gave me nightmares when I was a kid and ever since he's freaked me out. IDEK why. *shudder*

And damn, I am behind on like all comic things.

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I remember Nimrod from the cartoon. I'm a 90's child, so that thing re-forming was my version of the T-1000.

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wonderwomanhero

Speaking of dead comic characters, can we talk about Robin. I didn't think much of the issue, I don't really care for Batman Incorporated at all. I am much more excited for the fallout in the upcoming Bat titles.

BATMAN AND ROBIN #20.

Get on Skype, bitch.

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Kill off Wolverine and replace him with Howlett from X-Treme X-Men

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I'm still pissed, but not surprised, that this series is getting cancelled.

I hope that some of the characters from X-Treme get carried over into the main canon when the series end. It'll be disappointing if the ending is "everyone dies except Dazzler who returns to the main universe"

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saintvlas22 Expand

everything greg pak writes gets cancelled.... hercules, alpha flight, now x-treme

YES. I fucking hate 616!Wolverine. Any alternate would be welcomed.

Is that a gay alternate version of Wolverine?

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this piece of beauty!
Yesterday I had to see people complaining about this without even reading the comic

How did I not know about this? Such a hot couple.

I desperately want to like Uncanny Avengers, but it's such shit. The Avengers didn't give a shit about mutants until Cyclops turned PR against them, so now they're trying to show that they really do want to help mutants. So whom do they recruit? An Aryan for a leader and the woman whose genocide the Avengers have desperately defended.

How can Rick Remender go from an amazing book like Uncanny X-Force to this?

THIS. SO. MUCH.

I want to like this book soooo much. Remender did an amazing thing with the first conversation Rogue and Scarlet Witch had during issue one. Rogue called her out on her shit not just for wiping out the mutant race but for hiding in plain sight as a hero while the rest of her species trekked through the mud of being under appreciated.

That scene pissed me off so much. I was ready to give Wanda a break and accept the retcon that Dr. Doom had planned Decimation from the beginning, but Wanda's gloating erased any sympathy I might have had for her. I hope every issue has at least one panel of Wanda getting the crap kicked out of her by Rogue.

(I will say to Remender's credit that he is making me enjoy Rogue again. I thought she was really boring during X-Men Legacy, but now she's got that tough, sassy edge to her that I've so missed.)

Uncanny Avengers has to be the hotest pile of shit from Marvel Now.
Inconsistent art, delays, stupid as fuck premise, worst characterizations ever: Captain America being mediocre and ridiculous, Havoc being a self-hating mutant/Avenger lapdog, Scarlet Witch questioning wether the survival of the mutant race is really important after she basically wiped them out... Rogue is the only one who's halfway decent here.
I'm literally embarrassed for Remender and Cassaday. What the hell is this shit ?

However I'm pretty enthusiastic about Uncanny X-Force now, because the #2 was a lot better than the previous issue and also because Adrian Alphona is going to do the art on the next issues. His Runaways stuff was really good, so I can't wait.

this comment is so fucking accurate. i do not AT ALL get the hype around Remender and am appalled that he's Marvel's new ~golden boy~ and has his hands in everything.

I loved what remender did with Angel in x-force and it's a shame that Marvel decided to take him away from his element and throw him into something that's entirely out of his range. I despise the tone of Uncanny Avengers. Especially since they have two mutants on the team who have barely touched mutant affairs at all in the MU(Havok and The Scarlet Bitch.)

100% agree with everything you've written. Cassaday's art during Joss Whedon's Astonishing X-Men was beautiful, but it's lazy here. And Remender's Uncanny X-Force was one of the most gripping X-titles in years. What are they doing?

As long as they don't revive Nightcrawler. I have a lot of feels about his death and I don't want it cheapened by just bringing him back.

You know he'll be back sooner or later. at this point, I'm surprised John Proudstar (Thunderbird) hasn't been brought back

crap, I forgot he came back briefly for that zombie X-men storyline from a couple of years back

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I wish the new Young Avengers was bi-weekly, issue 2 came out today and now I have to wait aaaages ;_;

I'm still not over the "yamblr" page.

LOL yes.

That is the most amazing comic book I've ever read and it's only 2 issues in.

I only read two comic books from my pull list this week and they both pissed me off so much that I had to stop reading.

What did you read?

Hawkeye and Young Avengers. Young Avengers is just crap while Hawkeye, ugh, the whole cheatng on Jessica thing, I just don't like it.

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Holy shit top-of-his-head-removed Xavier is terrifying.

it was so much worse in the first issue of uncanny avengers. I can never read that single issue again.

I just want Xavier back. I can't believe they killed the poor thing off again *sigh*

this. i would have loved to see him back at the forefront of x-men legacy just teaching at the school and going back and forth with Joanna Cargill/Frenzy.

Frenzy needs her own book. She was my favorite part of X-Men Legacy. I love how she goaded Moon Knight into attacking her during AvX. Serves the Avengers right for recruiting such a lame ass hero.

Onslaught is back? That shit was so ridiculous, it put me off comics entirely.

Not bringing Daken back.

Don't care

I literally just read this issue. Wanda vs Thor for the win.

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