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Uncanny Avengers: Unity
Uncanny Avengers: Unity, Vol. 1: Lost Future
In a world fi lled with ever greater confl ict, the Avengers' Unity Squad has a bigger job than ever! The elderly Steve Rogers has assembled a new roster aimed at promoting peace between humans, mutants...and Inhumans! Spider-Man, Rogue, the Human Torch, Quicksilver, Doctor Voodoo and the Inhuman known as Synapse all make the cut - as does Deadpool! But what role exactly does Wade Wilson play in encouraging inter-species harmony? As Boston faces devastation, the all-new Uncanny Avengers fight a world gone mad, and the final member of the team makes a bloody entrance! But how far can Steve's squad go in achieving unity when some of them can't even work together? And seriously - Deadpool? An Avenger? Prepare to believe!
COLLECTING: UNCANNY AVENGERS (2015B) #1-6
COLLECTING: UNCANNY AVENGERS (2015B) #1-6
152 pages, Paperback
First published April 26, 2016
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February 1, 2024
More Gerry Duggan yawn non-comedy, not funny. Deadpool financing The Uncanny Avengers - bore off. Inhumans - yawn de yawn. Red Skull - zzzzz. Utterly recommend that this is given a wide swerve. 3 out of 12 just for the audacity of having the Human Torch in an Avengers team!
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September 6, 2016
Well, was this ever a mixed bag. The last couple of issues, with the Carlos Pacheco artwork, were really quite good. The bulk of the book, however, with the ugly early-nineties-Image style artwork was flarking atrocious.
It was bloody TIME TRAVEL bollocks again! I'm really starting to think Marvel can't plot a story that doesn't involve bloody time travel. I'm sick to the back teeth of it.
I did like the fact that Johnny Storm is FINALLY an Avenger, though. It was starting to feel like everybody in the Marvel universe had been an Avenger except him.
It was bloody TIME TRAVEL bollocks again! I'm really starting to think Marvel can't plot a story that doesn't involve bloody time travel. I'm sick to the back teeth of it.
I did like the fact that Johnny Storm is FINALLY an Avenger, though. It was starting to feel like everybody in the Marvel universe had been an Avenger except him.
January 3, 2019
This seemed sort of peculiar, but the main interest - at least for me - was that it was the comic book equivalent of an old rock n' roll 'supergroup' like Cream or Blind Faith. The title team is a hybrid of X-Men (Rogue) and Avengers (an elderly Captain America, Quicksilver, Dr. Voodoo) with a dash of the Fantastic Four (Human Torch), plus established solo artists (Deadpool and Spider-Man) and a new kid on the block (Synapse). With a starting line-up like that I expected the ball to be hit out of the park.
. . . and yet inspired casting will only take a story so far. While the plot was not very compelling (the 3-star rating was a stretch) it was just interesting enough that I will check out the next volume.
. . . and yet inspired casting will only take a story so far. While the plot was not very compelling (the 3-star rating was a stretch) it was just interesting enough that I will check out the next volume.
May 31, 2016
Steve Rogers continues to promote unity between humans and mutants. Thanks to the terrigen cloud he now has to promote unity with the Inhumans as well. Steve was fortunate enough to convince a new Inhuman to join the cause. Unfortunately the terrigen cloud doesn't simply bestow powers on the good.
A new Inhuman has unleashed a biological attack on the planet that's so devastating that Cable returned to the past to help save everything.
Meanwhile the Avengers Unity Squad is searching for the Red Skull to retrieve Professor X's brain.
Lost Future wasn't great. The combination for the team is an odd mashup of lost toys so to speak. The team has elderly Captain America from the Avengers, Rogue from the X-Men, and Johnny Storm from the Fantastic Four. It also features Quicksilver, Doctor Voodoo, Deadpool, Cable, and new Inhuman Synapse. It's hard to come up with a less interesting and more mismatched bunch. It almost feels like someone is trying to convince Steve Rogers to retire by giving him the dregs of heroes.
As many may know I've taken to the Inhumans movement and have read as many titles as I'm aware of/can get my hands on. Sometimes I enjoy actual new things in comics over new scenarios for characters twice my age. Anyway I enjoyed the initiative of adding Inhumans as new antagonists and protagonists in stories. Unfortunately the Inhuman adversary the Shredded Man wasn't all that interesting. Perhaps the build up was too quick, but I imagine it was mainly his need to eliminate people so plants could survive. That's not a message that I'm interested in hearing.
Uncanny Avengers proves that Marvel comics loves to use the title Uncanny even though there are many other options they haven't made use of yet. Lost Future was an OK volume that would be more appreciated by anyone who liked more than one of the Avengers Unity Squad members.
A new Inhuman has unleashed a biological attack on the planet that's so devastating that Cable returned to the past to help save everything.
Meanwhile the Avengers Unity Squad is searching for the Red Skull to retrieve Professor X's brain.
Lost Future wasn't great. The combination for the team is an odd mashup of lost toys so to speak. The team has elderly Captain America from the Avengers, Rogue from the X-Men, and Johnny Storm from the Fantastic Four. It also features Quicksilver, Doctor Voodoo, Deadpool, Cable, and new Inhuman Synapse. It's hard to come up with a less interesting and more mismatched bunch. It almost feels like someone is trying to convince Steve Rogers to retire by giving him the dregs of heroes.
As many may know I've taken to the Inhumans movement and have read as many titles as I'm aware of/can get my hands on. Sometimes I enjoy actual new things in comics over new scenarios for characters twice my age. Anyway I enjoyed the initiative of adding Inhumans as new antagonists and protagonists in stories. Unfortunately the Inhuman adversary the Shredded Man wasn't all that interesting. Perhaps the build up was too quick, but I imagine it was mainly his need to eliminate people so plants could survive. That's not a message that I'm interested in hearing.
Uncanny Avengers proves that Marvel comics loves to use the title Uncanny even though there are many other options they haven't made use of yet. Lost Future was an OK volume that would be more appreciated by anyone who liked more than one of the Avengers Unity Squad members.
June 1, 2016
Not feeling this. The characters are a weird grab bag that don't really go that well together. Johnny Storm is the only truly likeable character here. Deadpool is strangely serious and subdued, and it isn't really clear what the hell he's doing on an Avengers team in the first place, other than the popularity of the character. The stories are kind of meh. First there's a new Inhuman terrorist, meh, and then more with Red Skull and Xavier's brain, and I always hated that storyline. The one bright spot is a sort of subplot thread about how the Terrigen mists have seriously detrimental effects on mutants, which I found very interesting. But that's barely touched on, so the whole thing was basically a loss.
November 7, 2021
This was a pretty good read!
Steve leads a new team and we see him recruiting Deadpool and well he has found an interesting way to fund the team and now their first threat is: The shredded man and well he is infecting Boston and the team goes against him but find themselves with a new challenge with it infecting them also and a connection of him to Synapse, their newest members and the Inhuman-Mutant problem and the coming of Cable and will the Unity Squad be able to save the city? Meanwhile the Red Skull and his daughter Sin have big plans for the team and more threats from all sides are coming!
I loved this volume and it really feels like a mish-mash of characters which I love like Deadpool in an Avengers team is bananas but its fun and the story of how Wade deals with the Wrecker is a great story and I like how Duggan is putting certain pieces into place before he does a story with them and thats a good thing for a comic and the art is as lovely as ever! A good start to a new series!
Steve leads a new team and we see him recruiting Deadpool and well he has found an interesting way to fund the team and now their first threat is: The shredded man and well he is infecting Boston and the team goes against him but find themselves with a new challenge with it infecting them also and a connection of him to Synapse, their newest members and the Inhuman-Mutant problem and the coming of Cable and will the Unity Squad be able to save the city? Meanwhile the Red Skull and his daughter Sin have big plans for the team and more threats from all sides are coming!
I loved this volume and it really feels like a mish-mash of characters which I love like Deadpool in an Avengers team is bananas but its fun and the story of how Wade deals with the Wrecker is a great story and I like how Duggan is putting certain pieces into place before he does a story with them and thats a good thing for a comic and the art is as lovely as ever! A good start to a new series!
March 12, 2018
Standard new marvel team to take on the bad guy of the week, in this case Red Skull. I should have read this a while back considering its a bit old now but whatever. First off the team I like it with Old man Steve, Rogue, Human torch, Quicksilver, Doc Voodoo and Deadpool plus a few others. The story is still in the terrigan cloud days so everyone is pissed at the inhumans especially mutants. A new bad guy is also introduced who has a tie to the team and his name is the shredded man yet is isn't super buff or anything. He's an inhuman wanting to cleanse the world blah blah blah. Anyways I zoning out reading when one of my favorite mutants comes along which I am gonna spoil sorry about that.... Cable! Old man Nate comes to the rescue with a comically huge gun and instantly like the story more. Could be a good series I will probably pick up vol.2
May 22, 2016
Mmmmm. Didn't really feel like an Avengers book. More X-men like. Sure do wish Marvel currently had a recognizably Avengers-y Avengers title right now. Right now, all the current Avengers titles are a bit screwy.
Not feeling a lot of love for this post-Secret Wars line up of titles. But I'll check a few out. Like the artist here Ryan Stegman. Not sure he's a right fit for Avengers either. He ought to be doing Spider-man. Great cartoonist though. Always happy to read his books. Duggan's an odd choice for Avengers also. I'm not too impressed with the initial outing. Should have had a meaty hook. His opening piece with Deadpool was an instant classic. Not so much here. Potential to improve.
Not feeling a lot of love for this post-Secret Wars line up of titles. But I'll check a few out. Like the artist here Ryan Stegman. Not sure he's a right fit for Avengers either. He ought to be doing Spider-man. Great cartoonist though. Always happy to read his books. Duggan's an odd choice for Avengers also. I'm not too impressed with the initial outing. Should have had a meaty hook. His opening piece with Deadpool was an instant classic. Not so much here. Potential to improve.
July 6, 2016
Mmmmm. Didn't really feel like an Avengers book. More X-men like. Sure do wish Marvel currently had a recognizably Avengers-y Avengers title right now. Right now, all the current Avengers titles are a bit screwy.
Not feeling a lot of love for this post-Secret Wars line up of titles. But I'll check a few out. Like the artist here Ryan Stegman. Not sure he's a right fit for Avengers either. He ought to be doing Spider-man. Great cartoonist though. Always happy to read his books. Duggan's an odd choice for Avengers also. I'm not too impressed with the initial outing. Should have had a meaty hook. His opening piece with Deadpool was an instant classic. Not so much here. Potential to improve.
Not feeling a lot of love for this post-Secret Wars line up of titles. But I'll check a few out. Like the artist here Ryan Stegman. Not sure he's a right fit for Avengers either. He ought to be doing Spider-man. Great cartoonist though. Always happy to read his books. Duggan's an odd choice for Avengers also. I'm not too impressed with the initial outing. Should have had a meaty hook. His opening piece with Deadpool was an instant classic. Not so much here. Potential to improve.
April 6, 2019
this was exceptionally good? im glad ive been reading the right comics lately
May 23, 2016
The Uncanny Avengers re-launches in the “All New, All Different Marvel” era with a revitalized creative direction.
Lost Future finds the rapidly-aged former Captain America Steve Rogers form a new Avengers Unity Squad featuring Rogue, Spider-Man, Doctor Voodoo, Quicksilver, Human Torch, new Inhuman character Synapse and, most surprisingly, Deadpool. Spider-Man objects so much to the latter addition to the team that he quits in the first issue. This newest version of The Uncanny Avengers seeks to promote harmony among humans, mutants and Inhumans, especially as the Terrigen cloud that unlocks Inhuman powers has a devastating effect on mutants. Rogue is one of the few mutants to remain in the public eye, though she’s suffering from serious Terrigen poisoning.
A devastating biological attack on Boston brings the Uncanny Avengers into conflict with the Shredded Man, an eco-terrorist looking to save the planet via mass genocide. Erstwhile X-Man Cable arrives from a future devastated by the Shredded Man to help thwart his plans. Cable sticks around to help the Uncanny Avengers hunt for the Red Skull, still in possession of Professor X’s brain, and later discovers he can’t return to the future. A raid on a Red Skull vault brings Rogue, Deadpool and the Torch into contact with Rogue’s ex-lover, Gambit. Or so they think. Quicksilver and Deadpool respond to Wrecker’s attack on Avengers Mansion (now transformed into a theme hotel). Synapse makes a reluctant visit to the Inhumans’ stronghold as she grapples with the implications of her heritage.
Lost Future is a strong new start for Uncanny Avengers. The franchise had really sputtered with its couple arcs before Secret Wars. Writer Gerry Duggan revitalizes the concept, with new thematic weight and an appealing line-up. Deadpool and Cable prove to be surprisingly strong additions that mesh into the concept well. The former’s presence drives a lot of the internal tension for the team. The mutant/Inhuman conflict that permeates several books in the “All New, All Different” line-up gets a good workout here. Rogue remains a fascinating pivot for the team, having really embraced her role as an Avenger and mutant ambassador, but struggling with mutant/Inhuman relations.
Synapse is a strong new character. Her mental powers aren’t quite as rote as the usual telepathy and her uneasiness with the Inhuman political apparatus makes her a dramatic wild card. Duggan develops her quite effectively in these initial issues. Duggan also has a strong bead on the team’s other members. He uses Steve quite well as the animating spirit of the team. Duggan makes good use of Quicksilver, who’s enjoying a new lease on life, freed from the burden of being related to Magneto. He also folds the Torch and Voodoo into the proceedings in creative ways. Duggan demonstrates fluency with the characters’ histories, deploying the past in smart ways, and takes up the dangling Red Skull plot with some nice twists. And not surprisingly, Duggan injects a lot of humor into the book. Lost Future is a zippy, fun read with plenty of action and strong character development.
Ryan Stegman is the primary artist for Lost Future. He brings his exaggerated, slightly cartoonish aesthetic to the book, but gives it enough of a dark dash to be very interesting. Stegman really gets across the horror elements of the Shredded Man’s attacks quite effectively and teases a lot of expressiveness out of the characters. His design work is strong and he deploys page compositions that are creative without being gimmicky. Veteran Carlos Pacheco steps in on two issues (working with a variety of inkers) and does his usual clean, dynamic work. Colorist Richard Isanove, reliable as ever, provides continuity with his smart, thoughtful palette. His choices are spot on, heightening the power of the images. Uncanny Avengers has a strong look that helps it stand out on a shelf crowded with Avengers books.
For fans who might have lost hope for Uncanny Avengers after a couple of uninspiring arcs, Lost Future is a strong new start that holds a lot of promise.
A version of this review originally appeared on www.thunderalleybcp.com
Lost Future finds the rapidly-aged former Captain America Steve Rogers form a new Avengers Unity Squad featuring Rogue, Spider-Man, Doctor Voodoo, Quicksilver, Human Torch, new Inhuman character Synapse and, most surprisingly, Deadpool. Spider-Man objects so much to the latter addition to the team that he quits in the first issue. This newest version of The Uncanny Avengers seeks to promote harmony among humans, mutants and Inhumans, especially as the Terrigen cloud that unlocks Inhuman powers has a devastating effect on mutants. Rogue is one of the few mutants to remain in the public eye, though she’s suffering from serious Terrigen poisoning.
A devastating biological attack on Boston brings the Uncanny Avengers into conflict with the Shredded Man, an eco-terrorist looking to save the planet via mass genocide. Erstwhile X-Man Cable arrives from a future devastated by the Shredded Man to help thwart his plans. Cable sticks around to help the Uncanny Avengers hunt for the Red Skull, still in possession of Professor X’s brain, and later discovers he can’t return to the future. A raid on a Red Skull vault brings Rogue, Deadpool and the Torch into contact with Rogue’s ex-lover, Gambit. Or so they think. Quicksilver and Deadpool respond to Wrecker’s attack on Avengers Mansion (now transformed into a theme hotel). Synapse makes a reluctant visit to the Inhumans’ stronghold as she grapples with the implications of her heritage.
Lost Future is a strong new start for Uncanny Avengers. The franchise had really sputtered with its couple arcs before Secret Wars. Writer Gerry Duggan revitalizes the concept, with new thematic weight and an appealing line-up. Deadpool and Cable prove to be surprisingly strong additions that mesh into the concept well. The former’s presence drives a lot of the internal tension for the team. The mutant/Inhuman conflict that permeates several books in the “All New, All Different” line-up gets a good workout here. Rogue remains a fascinating pivot for the team, having really embraced her role as an Avenger and mutant ambassador, but struggling with mutant/Inhuman relations.
Synapse is a strong new character. Her mental powers aren’t quite as rote as the usual telepathy and her uneasiness with the Inhuman political apparatus makes her a dramatic wild card. Duggan develops her quite effectively in these initial issues. Duggan also has a strong bead on the team’s other members. He uses Steve quite well as the animating spirit of the team. Duggan makes good use of Quicksilver, who’s enjoying a new lease on life, freed from the burden of being related to Magneto. He also folds the Torch and Voodoo into the proceedings in creative ways. Duggan demonstrates fluency with the characters’ histories, deploying the past in smart ways, and takes up the dangling Red Skull plot with some nice twists. And not surprisingly, Duggan injects a lot of humor into the book. Lost Future is a zippy, fun read with plenty of action and strong character development.
Ryan Stegman is the primary artist for Lost Future. He brings his exaggerated, slightly cartoonish aesthetic to the book, but gives it enough of a dark dash to be very interesting. Stegman really gets across the horror elements of the Shredded Man’s attacks quite effectively and teases a lot of expressiveness out of the characters. His design work is strong and he deploys page compositions that are creative without being gimmicky. Veteran Carlos Pacheco steps in on two issues (working with a variety of inkers) and does his usual clean, dynamic work. Colorist Richard Isanove, reliable as ever, provides continuity with his smart, thoughtful palette. His choices are spot on, heightening the power of the images. Uncanny Avengers has a strong look that helps it stand out on a shelf crowded with Avengers books.
For fans who might have lost hope for Uncanny Avengers after a couple of uninspiring arcs, Lost Future is a strong new start that holds a lot of promise.
A version of this review originally appeared on www.thunderalleybcp.com
August 7, 2016
Cable and Captain America on the same team. That really is worth the price of admission, right there, isn't it?
I don't know what you would think about this book, but Captain America and Cable are two characters in my Marvel hero top 5. Deadpool is not. Sure, he was great in Remender's run of Uncanny x-force, and who doesn't love the Deadpool movie, but otherwise, please don't start making him the new wolverine, featuring him in every single corner of the Marvel universe.
Deadpool is just one of the few things Marvel is really trying to cram down our throats, and tell us is great. Another thing is the rise of Inhumans. This is all going to go one of two ways--
1) Marvel is eventually going to give up trying to push the inhumans, and we will look back on this as a phase. Maybe one or two new, interesting characters will make their way into the canon.
2) the inhumans will eventually eclipse Mutants, and we will get an inhuman team, of primarily new characters, that will take the place of the X-men.
I highly doubt that is going to be the case.
I do like that this book is about putting together a Unity Squad, to unite humans, mutants and inhhumans. It is nowhere near as good as Remender's Uncanny Avengers, though
I don't know what you would think about this book, but Captain America and Cable are two characters in my Marvel hero top 5. Deadpool is not. Sure, he was great in Remender's run of Uncanny x-force, and who doesn't love the Deadpool movie, but otherwise, please don't start making him the new wolverine, featuring him in every single corner of the Marvel universe.
Deadpool is just one of the few things Marvel is really trying to cram down our throats, and tell us is great. Another thing is the rise of Inhumans. This is all going to go one of two ways--
1) Marvel is eventually going to give up trying to push the inhumans, and we will look back on this as a phase. Maybe one or two new, interesting characters will make their way into the canon.
2) the inhumans will eventually eclipse Mutants, and we will get an inhuman team, of primarily new characters, that will take the place of the X-men.
I highly doubt that is going to be the case.
I do like that this book is about putting together a Unity Squad, to unite humans, mutants and inhhumans. It is nowhere near as good as Remender's Uncanny Avengers, though
March 4, 2016
Wow, seriously? Deadfool ... er, Deadpool? I mean how low can you scrap the bottom of the Marvel Heroes barrel? Oh, yeah, Cable - that would be lower. I mean who's next on the roster? Punisher? Wait how about the Human Top? Hold it! The Ringer! That's the ticket! I had hopes with the team if Spider-Man, the Human Torch and Doctor Voodoo were included - but Spidey took off and the Torch is being written like he's 14. Of course Deadpool acts like an eight year old, so why should I be surprised. Yeah, this was pretty terrible. And by terrible I mean extremely disappointing and just awful.
Seriously? Deadpool?
Seriously? Deadpool?
December 7, 2018
3 1/2 stars.
I read Uncanny Avengers: Unity Vol. 1 as single issues through the Marvel Unlimited app.
I always love seeing the new Avengers series that come out. For me it’s always been about seeing how the team has changed – because let’s be honest here, it can change A LOT. From the title of this series I knew that the changes were larger than normal. ‘Uncanny’ is a title used for the X-Men, so combing it with an Avengers title clearly indicates an Avengers/X-Men team up. Yes please!
Captain America is the brains behind this team, though he’s taking a back seat for the action. The team itself (so far) is comprised of Spider-Man, Rogue, the Human Torch, Quicksilver, Doctor Voodoo, Synapse (an Inhuman) and…Deadpool.
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I read Uncanny Avengers: Unity Vol. 1 as single issues through the Marvel Unlimited app.
I always love seeing the new Avengers series that come out. For me it’s always been about seeing how the team has changed – because let’s be honest here, it can change A LOT. From the title of this series I knew that the changes were larger than normal. ‘Uncanny’ is a title used for the X-Men, so combing it with an Avengers title clearly indicates an Avengers/X-Men team up. Yes please!
Captain America is the brains behind this team, though he’s taking a back seat for the action. The team itself (so far) is comprised of Spider-Man, Rogue, the Human Torch, Quicksilver, Doctor Voodoo, Synapse (an Inhuman) and…Deadpool.
For more reviews, check out Quirky Cat's Fat Stacks
July 8, 2020
Why was this so boring?
Could not get into this. It’s a skinny tpb and it felt like it would never end. The art wasn’t bad, but the story had no flare.
Also, I hate Inhumans. They’re boring.
Could not get into this. It’s a skinny tpb and it felt like it would never end. The art wasn’t bad, but the story had no flare.
Also, I hate Inhumans. They’re boring.
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July 13, 2016A book which suffers from being at the forefront of all Marvel's dumbest recent decisions. Since Secret Wars, the Terrigen mist which creates Inhumans has also been giving mutants some ill-defined but serious illness - and right there you've already got a bit of a problem, because the universe was recreated by Reed Richards and son, so on top of him bringing back to life all the villains (including those Frank Castle righteously slew before the end) he's apparently introduced a whole new plague. And the Problem of Evil surely feels even more personal when you used to be pretty good mates with the (re)Creator. So anyway, as a gesture towards addressing the resulting tensions Steve Rogers (here post-ageing, pre-rejuvenation/mind-alteration, and thus playing a sort of low-rent version of (white) Nick Fury) decides to usher the Inhumans into his already strained 'unity squad' - the ill-conceived X-Men/Avengers mash-up whose previous series I abandoned after two painful volumes, but who it's clear totally failed either to prevent Axis or apprehend its culprit, the now super-psychic Red Skull. Except apparently Rogers could only find one Inhuman, a young woman known as Synapse, who's every bit as flat and bloodless a character as every other new Inhuman introduced outside the pages of Ms Marvel. Well, unless Quicksilver is an Inhuman this week, because I remember he's no longer supposed to be a mutant but I can't remember what his origin's meant to be at present and I'm not sure it's worth the effort of checking. And within the first issue, the squad have a press conference which somehow goes even worse than Havok's 'M-word' debacle in the previous Volume 1, because apparently despite Steve Rogers always having been presented as a wise and inspirational leader, now he's physically aged he has the same ability to keep his team in line as Jeremy Corbyn*.
It does get better after that opening, thank heavens - the first big outing is fairly generic save-the-city-from-the-newly-powerful-villain superheroics, but it turns out that dropping Deadpool (whom Duggan was already writing) into an Avengers team provides some entertaining moments, not least on account of his rather different approaches to conflict resolution. Stegman and Pacheco both provide solid art, and there's a nice little teaser of the reborn Hank Pym - who appears to have once again done something unutterably stupid, which is always how he's worked best in comics. Certainly, unlike Remender's run on the same title, the problems here seem mainly to be with the corporate status quo, rather than of the writer's making. But compared to eg Al Ewing's contemporaneous Avengers work, it's still an absolute mess.
*Now there's a crossover squad I would read the fuck out of: Avengers: PLP, doubtless centred on Dan Jarvis and Captain America bonding over their military experience, and Angela Eagle in some loosely bird-themed banter with the Falcon.
It does get better after that opening, thank heavens - the first big outing is fairly generic save-the-city-from-the-newly-powerful-villain superheroics, but it turns out that dropping Deadpool (whom Duggan was already writing) into an Avengers team provides some entertaining moments, not least on account of his rather different approaches to conflict resolution. Stegman and Pacheco both provide solid art, and there's a nice little teaser of the reborn Hank Pym - who appears to have once again done something unutterably stupid, which is always how he's worked best in comics. Certainly, unlike Remender's run on the same title, the problems here seem mainly to be with the corporate status quo, rather than of the writer's making. But compared to eg Al Ewing's contemporaneous Avengers work, it's still an absolute mess.
*Now there's a crossover squad I would read the fuck out of: Avengers: PLP, doubtless centred on Dan Jarvis and Captain America bonding over their military experience, and Angela Eagle in some loosely bird-themed banter with the Falcon.
March 18, 2017
Being the first volume of a series you might think that some effort would be put in. You would be wrong. The worst collection of super heroes are thrown together to fight a collection of comic book cliches. Does our new villain turn out to be a family member of a team member? I'd be shocked if he didn't! Is his motivation a lazy environmental extremism? You don't call yourself the Shredded Man if you have room for gray areas.
Plot holes will abound in this assembly line product. To meet a new inhuman super hero four team members show up. Why would that ever have to happen? Synapse is already an Avenger so it's not like they needed a whole team. Nor did they need to pop up for an unplanned meeting in the middle of the street. A phone call might have worked. What if she had a dentist appointment and couldn't drop everything to go hang out on Inhuman island?
Shredded man can create evil plant dogs whose justation period is three panels and evil birds to spread his plant disease, but he keeps everything centralized for no reason. And he can make it all disappear with a thought.
After Cable shoots his niece, our villain abandons his plans because he love her so much. Then he automatically tells her that next time he will show no mercy, which makes no sense, but if we are lucky there will never be a next time. Why Cable thinks shooting her will stop someone committed to total human annihilation is never explored.
Quicksilver runs around Boston and injects everyone with magic medicine that MIT "nerds" produce, but he uses the same injector and has presumedly just infected the entire city with aids. Also the MIT students just happen to be qualified to create the magic medicine instantaneously because they are smart. This isn't the a new idea, comic book scientists have always been able to magically solve any problem in twenty two pages, but it doesn't make the writing any less lazy.
"Gambit" takes off his coat for no reason. Why would a thief wear something that would get in his way? Since Gambit was just a mental projection in the first place, why not just leave the coat on, or never project it? If your mental projection takes off the coat now you have to keep projecting the coat.
Who is running the dead pool store and why would anyone in the Marvel universe want to buy his merchandise? Why is Deadpool an Avenger? They should really have a limit to how many murders you can commit and still be able to join. Ideally zero, but in comic boom reality lets say no more than one hundred.
Why do Brother Voodoo and Steve Rogers drink in what we have to assume is an abandoned bar? Everything is covered in cobwebs so they can't have cleaned it up first. It just doesn't seem sanitary.
I would only recommend this book to people who have clean bathrooms, kitchens, and recently mowed yards, because doing housework is a better use of you time.
Plot holes will abound in this assembly line product. To meet a new inhuman super hero four team members show up. Why would that ever have to happen? Synapse is already an Avenger so it's not like they needed a whole team. Nor did they need to pop up for an unplanned meeting in the middle of the street. A phone call might have worked. What if she had a dentist appointment and couldn't drop everything to go hang out on Inhuman island?
Shredded man can create evil plant dogs whose justation period is three panels and evil birds to spread his plant disease, but he keeps everything centralized for no reason. And he can make it all disappear with a thought.
After Cable shoots his niece, our villain abandons his plans because he love her so much. Then he automatically tells her that next time he will show no mercy, which makes no sense, but if we are lucky there will never be a next time. Why Cable thinks shooting her will stop someone committed to total human annihilation is never explored.
Quicksilver runs around Boston and injects everyone with magic medicine that MIT "nerds" produce, but he uses the same injector and has presumedly just infected the entire city with aids. Also the MIT students just happen to be qualified to create the magic medicine instantaneously because they are smart. This isn't the a new idea, comic book scientists have always been able to magically solve any problem in twenty two pages, but it doesn't make the writing any less lazy.
"Gambit" takes off his coat for no reason. Why would a thief wear something that would get in his way? Since Gambit was just a mental projection in the first place, why not just leave the coat on, or never project it? If your mental projection takes off the coat now you have to keep projecting the coat.
Who is running the dead pool store and why would anyone in the Marvel universe want to buy his merchandise? Why is Deadpool an Avenger? They should really have a limit to how many murders you can commit and still be able to join. Ideally zero, but in comic boom reality lets say no more than one hundred.
Why do Brother Voodoo and Steve Rogers drink in what we have to assume is an abandoned bar? Everything is covered in cobwebs so they can't have cleaned it up first. It just doesn't seem sanitary.
I would only recommend this book to people who have clean bathrooms, kitchens, and recently mowed yards, because doing housework is a better use of you time.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
December 3, 2016
Really enjoyed this - loved the artwork and the story was interesting as well.
Again, I felt as though I had joined the story part way through (although the war between Avengers and X-Men was mentioned briefly at the start). I've definitely missed quite a bit - Reed, Sue and Logan are all gone. Red Skull has Charles's brain stashed in a vault (plus Red Skull has a daughter?).
This was also my first encounter with Cable, I like him. It was weird seeing Deadpool as an Avenger, he wasn't even allowed to kill anyone. Seeing an old Steve Rogers was also weird.
Again, I felt as though I had joined the story part way through (although the war between Avengers and X-Men was mentioned briefly at the start). I've definitely missed quite a bit - Reed, Sue and Logan are all gone. Red Skull has Charles's brain stashed in a vault (plus Red Skull has a daughter?).
This was also my first encounter with Cable, I like him. It was weird seeing Deadpool as an Avenger, he wasn't even allowed to kill anyone. Seeing an old Steve Rogers was also weird.
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November 18, 2016Okay, first off this book purposely sabotaged itself for me within the first two pages.
The cover (and the avenger line up) promised me Spider-Man, the Human Torch, and Deadpool all on the same team. But Spidey walked off the team in the first couple of pages and never returned. I'm not a happy bunny.
And what's with the wobbly arms and legs in the first few issues.
The cover (and the avenger line up) promised me Spider-Man, the Human Torch, and Deadpool all on the same team. But Spidey walked off the team in the first couple of pages and never returned. I'm not a happy bunny.
And what's with the wobbly arms and legs in the first few issues.
January 23, 2016
Spolu s Illumináty asi nejlepší týmovka v dosavadním All-New All-Different Marvelu. Po přečtení první knihy jsem spokojen, i když to asi nebude čtení pro každého. Zvyknout jsem si musel hlavně na tu kresbu, která byla strašně přeplácaná, ale jinak ušla. Unity FTW.
April 14, 2016
Read as single issues.
I'm enjoying this much more than Duggan's solo Deadpool run, but not quite as much as the All-New All-Different Avengers.
I'm enjoying this much more than Duggan's solo Deadpool run, but not quite as much as the All-New All-Different Avengers.
May 2, 2016
Deadpool saved this comic from being mediocre. Not quite sure I like where they are heading with the mutants and the Inhumans. Hurm.
November 15, 2016
I never thought I would see Deadpool and Brother Voodoo together in a comic before now.
January 19, 2017
What a dumpster fire. Terrible writing. Decent art. This is one of those books that makes me question whether I actually like superhero comics, at all.
January 4, 2026
Yeni takımımız Uncanny Avengers ile kahramanlığa hız kesmeden devam ediyoruz. Serinin ilk cildi, farklı türden kahramanların bir araya gelmesiyle birlikte olayların anında hız kazandığı bir başlangıç sunuyor. İnsanlar, mutantlar ve Inhuman’lardan oluşan bu karışık ekip; Rogue, Human Torch, Quicksilver, Doctor Voodoo ve Synapse’ten oluşuyor.
İlk başta Örümcek Adam da takıma dahil olsa da Deadpool’un varlığından rahatsız olduğu için ayrılıyor. Yine de ilerleyen ciltlerde yeniden katılma ihtimali var gibi duruyor. Öte yandan gelecekten gelen Cable, bir süreliğine takıma konuk olacak gibi görünüyor.
Deadpool hikâyeye inanılmaz bir renk katmış. Sahneleri hem eğlenceli hem de karakterin alışılmış ciddiyetsizliğini olgunlukla dengelediğini görmek hoş bir sürprizdi. Genellikle kaosun kaynağı olmasını beklerken burada oldukça dengeli ve mantıklı bir şekilde hareket ediyor.
Rogue ise liderlik rolünü üstlenmeye çalışıyor; ancak takımın birbirinden bağımsız karakterleri onun işini oldukça zorlaştırıyor. Özellikle Human Torch ve Quicksilver, başlarına buyruk hareketleriyle takım dinamiğini epey test ediyorlar. Rogue’un bu dengeyi nasıl sağlayacağını merak etmemek elde değil.
Yaşlı Captain America’ya ise bu seride biraz daha ısındım. Normalde karakterine çok yakın değilim ama burada arka planda, rehber bir figür gibi durması hikâyeye güzel bir denge katmış.
Ana tehdit olarak ise Red Skull öne çıkıyor. Xavier’ın beynini kullanarak gizlendiği bu dönemde, yeni takımımızın onu nasıl alt edeceğini görmek oldukça merak uyandırıcı.
Genel olarak Uncanny Avengers enerjik, kaotik ama bir o kadar da potansiyel dolu bir başlangıç yapıyor. Takım kimyası oturdukça hikâyenin çok daha güçlü bir hâl alacağını hissettiriyor.
İlk başta Örümcek Adam da takıma dahil olsa da Deadpool’un varlığından rahatsız olduğu için ayrılıyor. Yine de ilerleyen ciltlerde yeniden katılma ihtimali var gibi duruyor. Öte yandan gelecekten gelen Cable, bir süreliğine takıma konuk olacak gibi görünüyor.
Deadpool hikâyeye inanılmaz bir renk katmış. Sahneleri hem eğlenceli hem de karakterin alışılmış ciddiyetsizliğini olgunlukla dengelediğini görmek hoş bir sürprizdi. Genellikle kaosun kaynağı olmasını beklerken burada oldukça dengeli ve mantıklı bir şekilde hareket ediyor.
Rogue ise liderlik rolünü üstlenmeye çalışıyor; ancak takımın birbirinden bağımsız karakterleri onun işini oldukça zorlaştırıyor. Özellikle Human Torch ve Quicksilver, başlarına buyruk hareketleriyle takım dinamiğini epey test ediyorlar. Rogue’un bu dengeyi nasıl sağlayacağını merak etmemek elde değil.
Yaşlı Captain America’ya ise bu seride biraz daha ısındım. Normalde karakterine çok yakın değilim ama burada arka planda, rehber bir figür gibi durması hikâyeye güzel bir denge katmış.
Ana tehdit olarak ise Red Skull öne çıkıyor. Xavier’ın beynini kullanarak gizlendiği bu dönemde, yeni takımımızın onu nasıl alt edeceğini görmek oldukça merak uyandırıcı.
Genel olarak Uncanny Avengers enerjik, kaotik ama bir o kadar da potansiyel dolu bir başlangıç yapıyor. Takım kimyası oturdukça hikâyenin çok daha güçlü bir hâl alacağını hissettiriyor.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
December 6, 2018
In the first volume after Secret Wars, Duggan gives us an Uncanny Avengers book that is pretty much a basic "by the numbers" type story.
The book is ...ok. Not great, not bad, ok is the best way to describe it. While this book seemed to be strange enough to be great, I think it never really elevates to the level that it could of. Of course this just the first volume, so its possible that Duggan is still getting into his groove.
Part of the issue may be that there is no clearly defined leader or leaders. It seems at times that Deadpool is the star, but Deadpool is best when he is used sparingly at best within teams. Like Uncanny X Force. However I did appreciate the banter between team mates and their interactions.
Once again the team is after the Red Skull who still possesses Charles Xaviers brain and you would think that if you are going after a villain who has the most powerful telepathic mind on the planet, they would be more prepared with mind dampeners or something like that but hey, whatever.
I usually am a fan of Stegman for the art, but this seems... off. I don't know if he is trying a new style or if he just rushed, but there are parts of this that are very .... ugly. I hate to be that critical of art, but its just doesn't look good at times. The last two issues are better drawn only because they are drawn by different artists.
Overall, an ok book that is passably entertaining. I will stick with it in hopes that it can elevate to what this book was and could be again.
The book is ...ok. Not great, not bad, ok is the best way to describe it. While this book seemed to be strange enough to be great, I think it never really elevates to the level that it could of. Of course this just the first volume, so its possible that Duggan is still getting into his groove.
Part of the issue may be that there is no clearly defined leader or leaders. It seems at times that Deadpool is the star, but Deadpool is best when he is used sparingly at best within teams. Like Uncanny X Force. However I did appreciate the banter between team mates and their interactions.
Once again the team is after the Red Skull who still possesses Charles Xaviers brain and you would think that if you are going after a villain who has the most powerful telepathic mind on the planet, they would be more prepared with mind dampeners or something like that but hey, whatever.
I usually am a fan of Stegman for the art, but this seems... off. I don't know if he is trying a new style or if he just rushed, but there are parts of this that are very .... ugly. I hate to be that critical of art, but its just doesn't look good at times. The last two issues are better drawn only because they are drawn by different artists.
Overall, an ok book that is passably entertaining. I will stick with it in hopes that it can elevate to what this book was and could be again.
October 31, 2017
I am a fan of the premise. Heros from different factions working together; avengers, mutants, inhuman(singular), sorcerer, deadpool. I became a fan at about issue 18. so reading this is me catching up.
The artwork for the first 4 issues is unlikable in my opinion, but that artist, I think its Stegman, gets better in volume 2. where he begins to tone down what he normally emphasizes, sort of blocky, bulky, over exaggerated bodies, over stylized characters. The other artist on this is fantastic.
I enjoyed how the villian helps develop who was the least recognizable characters for me, Synapse, also letting me know she is an inhuman. where I began to read uncanny avengers, again issue 18, I had no previous info on her(synapse) or Dr Voodoo (Dr Voodoos story is pretty straight forward to find out). I really like the development of her and all the team. Johnny storm dealing with the disappearance of reed and sue, rogue and her medical situation, Dr voodoo seeing ghosts and being haunted by his dead brother, and so on. By far what makes me a real fan boy of this team is rogue. especially if you keep reading through to what I guess will be volume 4, and 5 where she really deals with being a team leader. Its nice to have Rogue not in an x-men title, especially since they seem to be a declining commodity in quality.
I don't normally right reviews so sorry if this meandered, but I did have a few things to say about this one.
The artwork for the first 4 issues is unlikable in my opinion, but that artist, I think its Stegman, gets better in volume 2. where he begins to tone down what he normally emphasizes, sort of blocky, bulky, over exaggerated bodies, over stylized characters. The other artist on this is fantastic.
I enjoyed how the villian helps develop who was the least recognizable characters for me, Synapse, also letting me know she is an inhuman. where I began to read uncanny avengers, again issue 18, I had no previous info on her(synapse) or Dr Voodoo (Dr Voodoos story is pretty straight forward to find out). I really like the development of her and all the team. Johnny storm dealing with the disappearance of reed and sue, rogue and her medical situation, Dr voodoo seeing ghosts and being haunted by his dead brother, and so on. By far what makes me a real fan boy of this team is rogue. especially if you keep reading through to what I guess will be volume 4, and 5 where she really deals with being a team leader. Its nice to have Rogue not in an x-men title, especially since they seem to be a declining commodity in quality.
I don't normally right reviews so sorry if this meandered, but I did have a few things to say about this one.
August 22, 2022
Świat po Secret Wars odzyskał pewien status quo i znów są potrzebni Avengers. W poprzedniej serii, całkiem zacnej zresztą, drużyną dowodził Havoc, a herosi mierzyli się między innymi z Kangiem czy Celestialami. Tym razem zagrożenie jest nieco inne, tak i skład ekipy zaliczy parę niespodzianek.
Największe zaskoczenie widać już na miniaturce. Deadpool wkroczył do Avengers za sprawą starego Kapitana Ameryki. Tak, ten Steve Rogers, który mimo wieku nadal potrafi wskoczyć w stare wdzianko i udać się kopać kilka tyłków. Oprócz niego jest tu Rogue, Quicksilver, Doktor Voodoo, Ludzka Pochodnia oraz Synapse - jedyna Inhuman w zespole (co będzie miało niebagatelne znaczenie potem).
Udane występy gościnne zalicza tu Spiderman, który jednak szybko wylatuje z ekipy i Cable, który mając wizję niebyt optymistycznej przyszłości, rusza na ratunek zagrożonej po raz wtóry, ludzkości. A zagrożeń jest kilka, największe zaś okazuje się powiązane z jednym z bohaterów. Ale i tak show kradnie Deadpool i jego siermiężna praca nad relacjami z resztą zespołu. Wade potrafi być super, zwłaszcza że wydaje się być podmieniony. Nie robi nic egoistycznie, tylko walczy (ZA DARMO!) dla ludzi. Dacie wiarę?
Duggan prowadzi swoją fabułę metodycznie i choć robi to sprawnie, to nie ma w całości tego pierwiastka czegoś ponad. To rzetelna robota, także w kwestii kreski, która wygląda przyjemnie, ale nic ponad to. Są "momenty". Jestem ciekaw jak dalej się to rozwinie z Deadpoolem.
Największe zaskoczenie widać już na miniaturce. Deadpool wkroczył do Avengers za sprawą starego Kapitana Ameryki. Tak, ten Steve Rogers, który mimo wieku nadal potrafi wskoczyć w stare wdzianko i udać się kopać kilka tyłków. Oprócz niego jest tu Rogue, Quicksilver, Doktor Voodoo, Ludzka Pochodnia oraz Synapse - jedyna Inhuman w zespole (co będzie miało niebagatelne znaczenie potem).
Udane występy gościnne zalicza tu Spiderman, który jednak szybko wylatuje z ekipy i Cable, który mając wizję niebyt optymistycznej przyszłości, rusza na ratunek zagrożonej po raz wtóry, ludzkości. A zagrożeń jest kilka, największe zaś okazuje się powiązane z jednym z bohaterów. Ale i tak show kradnie Deadpool i jego siermiężna praca nad relacjami z resztą zespołu. Wade potrafi być super, zwłaszcza że wydaje się być podmieniony. Nie robi nic egoistycznie, tylko walczy (ZA DARMO!) dla ludzi. Dacie wiarę?
Duggan prowadzi swoją fabułę metodycznie i choć robi to sprawnie, to nie ma w całości tego pierwiastka czegoś ponad. To rzetelna robota, także w kwestii kreski, która wygląda przyjemnie, ale nic ponad to. Są "momenty". Jestem ciekaw jak dalej się to rozwinie z Deadpoolem.
December 18, 2021
To ease tensions following the conflicts between the X-Men and Avengers, as well as between the mutants and Inhumans, Steve Rogers puts together a special team of Avengers comprised of member from all of those groups.
The team soon finds itself put to the test when facing an Inhuman who has created a plague intended to wipe humanity from the face of the Earth to save the planet's ecology.
I didn't like this book, but not because there wasn't good stuff here.
The reason I didn't like it was that it actually introduces a whole bunch of really interesting ideas that hooked me in but then did precisely nothing with any of them. Among the things I liked was the idea of Deadpool trying to 'go straight' as an Avenger, the conflict within the team between its mutant and Inhuman members, Synapse's struggles to be worthy of her position on the team and the idea of Johnny Storm trying to reform his wild ways to live up to the memories of Sue and Reed.
All of this is really good stuff, but none of it gets any room to develop and left me feeling just a gaping hole of disappointment by the time I finished the book. Presumably it's setting stuff up for later payoff, but that just means the author planned for this book to be just a whole bundle of unresolved and unrealised ideas.
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The team soon finds itself put to the test when facing an Inhuman who has created a plague intended to wipe humanity from the face of the Earth to save the planet's ecology.
I didn't like this book, but not because there wasn't good stuff here.
The reason I didn't like it was that it actually introduces a whole bunch of really interesting ideas that hooked me in but then did precisely nothing with any of them. Among the things I liked was the idea of Deadpool trying to 'go straight' as an Avenger, the conflict within the team between its mutant and Inhuman members, Synapse's struggles to be worthy of her position on the team and the idea of Johnny Storm trying to reform his wild ways to live up to the memories of Sue and Reed.
All of this is really good stuff, but none of it gets any room to develop and left me feeling just a gaping hole of disappointment by the time I finished the book. Presumably it's setting stuff up for later payoff, but that just means the author planned for this book to be just a whole bundle of unresolved and unrealised ideas.
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September 5, 2017
Uncanny Avengers has been getting worse as I go on. It was a fresh idea when it started, but this really didn't make a whole lot of sense. I understand the impulse to add Inhumans to the team, given their prominence, but I think it would have been more interesting with a higher-profile character.
First off, this book looks terrible. Everyone is wrinkly and super-deformed, and it is frequently hard to follow. There is no particular explanation for the members of the team, who are rather different than before, and don't seem to work very well together. I also don't really understand how this book fits with other contemporary books, since there is a fair amount of overlap for the characters. The story itself is not particularly great, either. Deadpool has sort of taken over this book, and while I enjoy Deadpool as a character, he doesn't do well in ensemble books. The book tries to tie back in to previous Uncanny Avengers books by bringing back the Red Skull (even though he was much changed when I last saw him... I guess that was handwaved by Secret Wars, but it's not really addressed here).
I really want to continue to like this series, but there was a lot here not to like.
First off, this book looks terrible. Everyone is wrinkly and super-deformed, and it is frequently hard to follow. There is no particular explanation for the members of the team, who are rather different than before, and don't seem to work very well together. I also don't really understand how this book fits with other contemporary books, since there is a fair amount of overlap for the characters. The story itself is not particularly great, either. Deadpool has sort of taken over this book, and while I enjoy Deadpool as a character, he doesn't do well in ensemble books. The book tries to tie back in to previous Uncanny Avengers books by bringing back the Red Skull (even though he was much changed when I last saw him... I guess that was handwaved by Secret Wars, but it's not really addressed here).
I really want to continue to like this series, but there was a lot here not to like.
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