We've now reached the point where a superhero comic can be relaunched multiple times within the same year. The previous volume of Uncanny Avengers barely had the opportunity to introduce the revamped Avengers Unity Squad before Secret Wars swooped in and writer Rick Remender ended his tenure at Marvel. Now writer Gerry Duggan and artist Ryan Stegman are introducing the third incarnation of the Unity Squad for a post-Secret Wars Marvel Universe. Unfortunately, the book's core appeal hasn't weathered all these changes.
Uncanny Avengers has always been a series with a very specific purpose. It's meant to feature a roster of both X-Men and Avengers, proving to the world that the two groups can work together for the betterment of all. This series adds the Inhumans as a third faction, but the conceit is the same. The problem is that the new team doesn't click in the way Remender's previous two groups did. There's only one actual mutant in the group (Rogue), two classic Avengers (Steve Rogers and Quicksilver), and one Inhuman (new character Synapse). As a result, this team feels very random and disjointed. It's also disappointing that so few characters from past volumes have made the jump. No Scarlet Witch. No Sabretooth. No Vision. No Wasp or Havok. Even Rogue's previous status quo (with her powers raging out of control and dealing with Wonder Man being trapped in her body) is downplayed in favor of something completely different. The book doesn't feel like an extension of Remender's work in any way that really matters, and it's disappointing to think that saga may never receive a proper conclusion.
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Uncanny Avengers has always been a series with a very specific purpose. It's meant to feature a roster of both X-Men and Avengers, proving to the world that the two groups can work together for the betterment of all. This series adds the Inhumans as a third faction, but the conceit is the same. The problem is that the new team doesn't click in the way Remender's previous two groups did. There's only one actual mutant in the group (Rogue), two classic Avengers (Steve Rogers and Quicksilver), and one Inhuman (new character Synapse). As a result, this team feels very random and disjointed. It's also disappointing that so few characters from past volumes have made the jump. No Scarlet Witch. No Sabretooth. No Vision. No Wasp or Havok. Even Rogue's previous status quo (with her powers raging out of control and dealing with Wonder Man being trapped in her body) is downplayed in favor of something completely different. The book doesn't feel like an extension of Remender's work in any way that really matters, and it's disappointing to think that saga may never receive a proper conclusion.
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