By Mark Rodriguez
The Red Skull used Xavier's mind to spread hate across the world. Magneto saw it fit to kill him, but instead of dying he was turned into Onslaught. In the epic battle to take him down, Rogue discovered that Xavier still existed within Red Skull's mind. While trying to make Xavier's personality dominate Red Skull's mind, everyone involved got their basic alignments switched. Now evil, Captain Falcon America is paranoid that someone helped the Red Skull escaped their clutches, and he captured all the Avengers, except Spider-Man and Nova that escaped. Magneto and Steve Rogers tell them that the X-Men are also evil, now bent on wiping out humanity with Apocalypse leading the charge. Meanwhile Kluh, the evil version of the Hulk, is calling out the heroes, and Nova took his challenge. Let's see what happens next.
The issue begins with Apocalypse spreading his message, warning humans to leave Manhattan for the mutants or they will be slaughtered. Apocalypse also reveals that the X-Men are working on a massive Gene Bomb. Jean arrives and tells them that Mystique wants to reason with them. They decide to send Nightcrawler and Rogue to deal with her.
Mystique tells her 'children' that what they're doing will ruin the peace that Xavier once wanted. Nightcrawler slices her across the cheek and Rogue grabs her and flies off with her saying they are done with peace. Rogue says that they will deal with humans the same way humans have dealt with them, and then she drops her adopted mother.
Suddenly Sabertooth of all people arrives to catch Mystique. They avoid Rogue as she swoops in to attack. Nightcrawler warps in to attack, but Creed kicks him into Rogue. Sabertooth and Mystique escape in the sewers which lead to the Morlock tunnels.
Tony Stark is throwing a party and is happy to see that everyone is paying the hundred-dollar-a-day price tag for their Extremis App to keep them looking perfect and beautiful. Some people even set their payments to automatic. This is straight out of the Superior Iron Man comics, but yeah, the basic idea was that Tony's app to make you look perfect only lasted a week for free and now people have to pay a 99.99 a DAY to keep using it. Daredevil arrives and tells Tony that he's been busy fighting off the crimewave caused by people doing anything just to get their hands on the app (remember, not everyone can afford an iPhone or a Droid).
Tony says great products become so popular that lesser people resort to crime to get it, like anyone would for a nice car or plasma tv. Daredevil attacks him, but he sends his Superior Iron Man suit after him. As Daredevil dodges the armor and attacks it, Tony runs up to him, now faster and stronger, and tosses him off the top of his skyscraper.
Dr. Doom is addressing his nation of Latveria, stopping his dictatorial ways and ready to run it like a democracy. Scarlet Witch appears to take him and his country down, wanting revenge for being manipulated by him. Doom actually jumps in the way to protect his people from her attacks and is taken down. Before Wanda can finish him off, he vanishes in a blur. Quicksilver takes Doom over to Magneto. Magneto says if she had killed him, she would never recover. Just then Wanda arrives and uses her powers on all three.
Thor is drinking and gambling at a Vegas casino and Loki arrives to taunt him. He says the people are letting him win due to his huge axe lying on the table. Loki asks where he got the money for such heavy gambling and Thor points out that he stole it from the casino safe. Loki mentions Mjolnir and he says he left it on the moon and is glad to be unworthy of it. Loki tries to take him home, but Thor punches him away. Thor grabs his axe and Loki tells him he's trying to help steer him to the right side, like he has always tried to do for him. Thor tackles him, as both go flying out of the casino. Thor smacks him around but Loki said he won't fight him.
Spider-Man webs Loki and pulls him out of harm's way as they fly off in a plane. Thor just turns and heads back into the casino. Back to the Avengers Mansion, Loki demands to know what's going on. Spider-Man explains recent events and Loki asks if they're the only ones left to take on the Avengers AND the X-Men. Steve Rogers tells him that they've gathered all the villains that helped fight on Genosha (Enchantress, Carnage, Absorbing Man and others) to help them win the fight. Sabertooth tells the gang that he infiltrated the X-Men base and discovered the Gene Bomb that will wipe out anyone that doesn't have an X gene... and they have an hour to stop it.
My Opinions-
The story continues to get more and more complicated as the X-Men now plan to flat out wipe out humanity. I do have to say, the Avengers does have some pretty notable heroes, but it seems the X-Men are the ones with the real intense super powers that cause the most destruction. It was cool to see more of the Superior Iron Man and the scene between Thor and Loki was a real role reversal. Thor mentions he left his hammer behind on the moon, which is where the new female Thor found it.
The jump from free Extremis App to now it costing 100 bucks a day, as well as Daredevil stopping the wave of madness this caused.... it is kinda jarring if you haven't read Superior Iron Man # 1. I was interested in it so I did buy it, but it sucks for those that didn't. And what about the fight between Kluh and Nova? It wasn't even mentioned in this issue. Please don't tell me I have to buy either Hulk's series or Nova's series.... or even both just to see how that went down.
I do have to say, between Rogue trying to drop Mystique to her death. Scarlet Witch trying to kill Doom, Magneto and Quicksilver, and Tony tossing Daredevil off a building, these heroes sure have become so damned murderous. I'm at least glad the bad guys (even though they're good now) are still involved cause hey, they don't just vanish the moment the heroes start fighting each other. We'll have to see how all of this goes down.
The Red Skull used Xavier's mind to spread hate across the world. Magneto saw it fit to kill him, but instead of dying he was turned into Onslaught. In the epic battle to take him down, Rogue discovered that Xavier still existed within Red Skull's mind. While trying to make Xavier's personality dominate Red Skull's mind, everyone involved got their basic alignments switched. Now evil, Captain Falcon America is paranoid that someone helped the Red Skull escaped their clutches, and he captured all the Avengers, except Spider-Man and Nova that escaped. Magneto and Steve Rogers tell them that the X-Men are also evil, now bent on wiping out humanity with Apocalypse leading the charge. Meanwhile Kluh, the evil version of the Hulk, is calling out the heroes, and Nova took his challenge. Let's see what happens next.
The issue begins with Apocalypse spreading his message, warning humans to leave Manhattan for the mutants or they will be slaughtered. Apocalypse also reveals that the X-Men are working on a massive Gene Bomb. Jean arrives and tells them that Mystique wants to reason with them. They decide to send Nightcrawler and Rogue to deal with her.
Mystique tells her 'children' that what they're doing will ruin the peace that Xavier once wanted. Nightcrawler slices her across the cheek and Rogue grabs her and flies off with her saying they are done with peace. Rogue says that they will deal with humans the same way humans have dealt with them, and then she drops her adopted mother.
Suddenly Sabertooth of all people arrives to catch Mystique. They avoid Rogue as she swoops in to attack. Nightcrawler warps in to attack, but Creed kicks him into Rogue. Sabertooth and Mystique escape in the sewers which lead to the Morlock tunnels.
Tony Stark is throwing a party and is happy to see that everyone is paying the hundred-dollar-a-day price tag for their Extremis App to keep them looking perfect and beautiful. Some people even set their payments to automatic. This is straight out of the Superior Iron Man comics, but yeah, the basic idea was that Tony's app to make you look perfect only lasted a week for free and now people have to pay a 99.99 a DAY to keep using it. Daredevil arrives and tells Tony that he's been busy fighting off the crimewave caused by people doing anything just to get their hands on the app (remember, not everyone can afford an iPhone or a Droid).
Tony says great products become so popular that lesser people resort to crime to get it, like anyone would for a nice car or plasma tv. Daredevil attacks him, but he sends his Superior Iron Man suit after him. As Daredevil dodges the armor and attacks it, Tony runs up to him, now faster and stronger, and tosses him off the top of his skyscraper.
Dr. Doom is addressing his nation of Latveria, stopping his dictatorial ways and ready to run it like a democracy. Scarlet Witch appears to take him and his country down, wanting revenge for being manipulated by him. Doom actually jumps in the way to protect his people from her attacks and is taken down. Before Wanda can finish him off, he vanishes in a blur. Quicksilver takes Doom over to Magneto. Magneto says if she had killed him, she would never recover. Just then Wanda arrives and uses her powers on all three.
Thor is drinking and gambling at a Vegas casino and Loki arrives to taunt him. He says the people are letting him win due to his huge axe lying on the table. Loki asks where he got the money for such heavy gambling and Thor points out that he stole it from the casino safe. Loki mentions Mjolnir and he says he left it on the moon and is glad to be unworthy of it. Loki tries to take him home, but Thor punches him away. Thor grabs his axe and Loki tells him he's trying to help steer him to the right side, like he has always tried to do for him. Thor tackles him, as both go flying out of the casino. Thor smacks him around but Loki said he won't fight him.
Spider-Man webs Loki and pulls him out of harm's way as they fly off in a plane. Thor just turns and heads back into the casino. Back to the Avengers Mansion, Loki demands to know what's going on. Spider-Man explains recent events and Loki asks if they're the only ones left to take on the Avengers AND the X-Men. Steve Rogers tells him that they've gathered all the villains that helped fight on Genosha (Enchantress, Carnage, Absorbing Man and others) to help them win the fight. Sabertooth tells the gang that he infiltrated the X-Men base and discovered the Gene Bomb that will wipe out anyone that doesn't have an X gene... and they have an hour to stop it.
My Opinions-
The story continues to get more and more complicated as the X-Men now plan to flat out wipe out humanity. I do have to say, the Avengers does have some pretty notable heroes, but it seems the X-Men are the ones with the real intense super powers that cause the most destruction. It was cool to see more of the Superior Iron Man and the scene between Thor and Loki was a real role reversal. Thor mentions he left his hammer behind on the moon, which is where the new female Thor found it.
The jump from free Extremis App to now it costing 100 bucks a day, as well as Daredevil stopping the wave of madness this caused.... it is kinda jarring if you haven't read Superior Iron Man # 1. I was interested in it so I did buy it, but it sucks for those that didn't. And what about the fight between Kluh and Nova? It wasn't even mentioned in this issue. Please don't tell me I have to buy either Hulk's series or Nova's series.... or even both just to see how that went down.
I do have to say, between Rogue trying to drop Mystique to her death. Scarlet Witch trying to kill Doom, Magneto and Quicksilver, and Tony tossing Daredevil off a building, these heroes sure have become so damned murderous. I'm at least glad the bad guys (even though they're good now) are still involved cause hey, they don't just vanish the moment the heroes start fighting each other. We'll have to see how all of this goes down.
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