Uncanny Avengers #1

Uncanny Avengers #1

          I have to start off with a huge nod to the writers, artists, editors and all the other staff that put together this comic. It is an excellent start to a new run.

          The comic starts off dealing with the death of Charles Xavier and his funeral being held at the Jean Grey School for Higher Learning. Wolverine gives the eulogy while thinking back about one of the poignant moments of their relationship. Wolverine reiterates that Charles’s hope for a better future and how he and is committed to that ideal.

          The comic then turns to Alex Summers entering a S.H.I.E.L.D. facility to speak with Scott in the brig. Scott is being held in a red tinted cell which I thought was a brilliant use of colour to not only highlighting his power, but also to highlight how the phoenix force is no longer a part of him as well. The colours of the phoenix and his former freedom are now the colours that are caging him and isolating him.  While Alex is in the blue, a colour traditionally thought of as good and true, showing further how Scott is no longer a part of his old allegiances.

 

After Alex’s confrontation with Scott he is approached by Captain America and Thor and asked to lead a new team made up have Avengers and X-men. Their discussion is interrupted by an attack by Avalanche outside the Avengers Mansion. After the attack the focus changes once more to the Scarlet Witch and Rogue who engage in conversation and other things before being attacked as well.

 

The book ends with an ominous image of Red Skull holding aloft Charles Xavier’s (?) brain vowing to eradicate the mutant menace.Overall the tone of comic set up a great deal of potential storylines and conflicts for this new group to tackle and I look forward to it.

 

 

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