Uncanny Avengers squad revealed

[sherkahn]

ComicBookResources has the preview of the new team.



From the article:

"As details of the sweeping "Marvel NOW" initiative begin to take shape, Entertainment Weekly has unveiled the first cover for "Uncanny Avengers," the new series by Rick Remender and John Cassaday that pits a combined team of X-Men and Avengers against a reawakened Nazi-loving, mutant-hating Red Skull.



Although Marvel already revealed the "Uncanny Avengers" team will include Captain America, Wolverine, Thor and Havok, Cassaday's art fills out the team roster with Scarlet Witch and Rogue."

So much for the story possibilities of the X-school and X-factor.

and I am really getting a "90's revenge/X-treme team vibe".

Comments

[mrstatham]

"It feels so artificial, as if there's no particular reason why these six out of all of the X-Men and Avengers should be on a team together"

Ostensibly, there's no reasons the original Avengers lineup should have been on a team together. Jack and Stan just thought it'd work good. There's no reason Bendis' first team in New Avengers should've been together, but it arguably worked.

As it is, I think part of the problem here is that Marvel are announcing this so far in advance that we really can't understand how and why this team's coming together when AVX is still going on.

[grazzt]

I suppose that last is a valid point. They do have a lot of time to bring this together.

I will dispute your counter-examples, though. I never got the appeal of the New Avengers at all. To me, it felt like Bendis' first attempt at a mainstream hero team (after a lot of work that was more noir), and it showed he was still on a learning curve. Compare and contrast the New Avengers with the Young Avengers who were coming out at the same time and had much better character interaction and plots that were a lot more epic. Seriously, the adult Avengers were fighting B-List X-Men villains like Sauron and Silver Samurai, while the kids were taking on Kang the Conqueror and getting caught in the crossfire of a war between the Kree and the Skrulls.

As for the original Avengers, they had novelty on their side, and that line-up didn't last for very long anyway before Cap's Kooky Quartet came along. By the time it was revisited, it had been so entrenched in the history of the series that any of the reasons why it shouldn't work can be ignored or fixed.