It's UNCANNY!

We wanted to wait a while before we broached the topic of Uncanny Avengers, mainly for 3 reasons:

• We were pretty disenchanted by the events of Avengers VS X-Men
• The release dates have been in constant flux - we knew we'd need to be a few issues in before we could write a review
• Captain America is on my personal hit list. (TBC)

So, now we're 3 issues in - what do we know.

Following the events of AvX, Captain America want's to re-establish a new team of Avengers and has enlisted Alex Summers aka Havoc, to be the leader. In this arc we see the return of the Red Scull with a special new addition - the brain of Charles Xavier, so he's now free to spread his mutant hating madness to all.

So, what do we think.
Rick Remender has a good premise with Uncanny Avengers, but we don't feel like it's strong enough. With these first few issues it feels like we're playing catchy up and that each issue is a series of bullet points. There are a lot 'how's but no 'whys' and there seemed to be a massive gap between #2 and #3 that we had to double check that we hadn't missed and issue. But that said,  #3 is probably the strongest, and the main reason that we'll keep on reading. A majority of this issue is in 3rd person perspective - which we think fits this story really well. It definitely creates that extra sense of drama and tension that we feel that John Cassaday and Laura Martin aren't conveying as much as we'd hoped.

This is a pretty big issue, so we expected bigger things by way of the artwork for the action sequences. When we compare it to some of the other heavy hitters that we're seeing from Marvel NOW, like the work of Immonen and von Grawbadger's for All New X-Men, this just doesn't appear as bold or dramatic. That said, Thor's arrival is definitely a scene to be hold, and Cassaday seems to always's pull it out of the bag with the final pages.

So what do we say.

Uncanny Avengers has definitely peaked our interest and it's worth seeing what they go with this arc and what's to come for the latest X-men turned Avengers.

What would doom do?
It's definitely time to step down and let the Red Skull take the reigns with this one. If worst comes to worst, there's always a sepcial place for Doom in FF!!!