By Mark Rodriguez
The Marvel universe has gone crazy due to an epic battle against the Red Skull that had taken the form of Onslaught. Most of the heroes and villains involved during this battle had their personalities and alignments switched. Villains like Carnage and Hobgoblin are now heroes, the Avengers want to rule the world and the X-Men want to eradicate the humans to make room for the mutants. Several heroes like Spider-Man and Steve Rogers have gathered together with the reformed villains, and Sabertooth tells the group that the X-Men are developing an Gene bomb that will wipe out humanity if they don't stop it. What's gonna happen?
The issue opens with the Summers brothers watching the Wasp, locked up in a cell. Havok talks about how much he loves her and asks Cyclops if the X-Gene bomb could spare at least one human, and Cyclops says 'it doesn't work that way'. Havok asks if he would allow his wife to die and Cyclops said he would if it meant for his people to live. Nightcrawler warps into the scene and tells the brothers that Steve Rogers has assembled an army. This army turns out to be the reformed villains, calling themselves Avengers now... and the X-Men are more than eager to take them down.
Meanwhile, Spider-Man and Deadpool are staking out Apocalypse, and rather than being stealthy, the Merc with the Mouth decides take him head on. Spider-Man tries to defuse the Gene Bomb while Deadpool distracts Apocalypse, but he is quickly taken down. Now the villain focuses his attention on the web-slinger as Deadpool tries to hold the huge mutant back. He punches Spidey through the wall and leaps after him with Deadpool still clinging onto him as they join the rest of the fighting outside.
Nightcrawler warps into the scene and flings Spider-Man into a wall with his tail. Before he can stab him with his sword, Carnage swoops him and kicks Nightcrawler off him. Sabertooth leaps at Havok and slashes his face saying that Wolverine was right about the Summers always screwing things up for the rest of the mutants. Storm blasts him back with lightning and says the time for them giving mercy on their enemies is over. As the fights continue, Deadpool keeps singing about love and peace. Apocalypse punches him into the ground.
Meanwhile in Latveria, the Scarlet Witch continues her attack against Dr. Doom, Magneto and Quicksilver. Pietro tries to reason with her but Wanda wants to use her powers to end her bloodline. Her attack completely drops Quicksilver... but Magneto is unaffected. Wanda is surprised and realized that this proves that there was no real blood relation between Magneto and the Maximoffs. Magneto asks about attacking her own brother Pietro, and she comments this was all his doing for getting him involved in the Brotherhood and trying to set him into the same dark path he was in. Dr. Doom escapes and Wanda says she will destroy Latveria in his absence.
Iron Man calls Captain Falcon America to San Francisco and updates him on the current fight between the X-Men and the super villains. Kluh is now with them and they all agree that they're better off with the X-Men dead.
Back to the battle, Deadpool is trying to snap Genesis out of his Apocalypse form. Deadpool tells him that Evan gave them hope and as Genesis, he thought he was better than this. Apocalypse beats Deadpool bloody and yanks his head off declaring that he is better than humans and soon their time will end as the bomb starts counting down to one second.
My opinions
The story starts heating up as now we have the X-Men preparing to nuke non-mutantkind with their X-Gene Bomb.... which is ..... the kind of thing they're usually fighting against from other super villains. Geez. The Avengers have become tyrants, but the X-Men have become downright genocidal.
Guess we needed to buy that Nova comic to see his battle against Kluh. No thanks. But Kluh must have won since he's right back with the Avengers without a scratch on him.
A new plot thread opens up as now we have the possibility of Magneto NOT being Pietro and Wanda's father. Oh come on now you guys. If anything combines the X-Men and the Avengers into the same universe, is the fact that two Avengers, the Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver, are actually the children of the Master of Magnetism, greatest enemy of the X-Men. It's the main reason the Maximoffs keep bouncing back and forth between joining the Avengers, the Brotherhood and the X-Men, mostly due to the Scarlet Witch always freaking out and going insane.
While it does raise interesting questions, mostly why Magneto adopted these kids if they aren't indeed his kids, or why he was the impression that they were his kids or whatever, it just feels way too late in the game to suddenly declare Magneto isn't their father, especially with all they've done throughout the years. I assume you have to get Magneto's new series to see how all of this is going to go down.
The Marvel universe has gone crazy due to an epic battle against the Red Skull that had taken the form of Onslaught. Most of the heroes and villains involved during this battle had their personalities and alignments switched. Villains like Carnage and Hobgoblin are now heroes, the Avengers want to rule the world and the X-Men want to eradicate the humans to make room for the mutants. Several heroes like Spider-Man and Steve Rogers have gathered together with the reformed villains, and Sabertooth tells the group that the X-Men are developing an Gene bomb that will wipe out humanity if they don't stop it. What's gonna happen?
The issue opens with the Summers brothers watching the Wasp, locked up in a cell. Havok talks about how much he loves her and asks Cyclops if the X-Gene bomb could spare at least one human, and Cyclops says 'it doesn't work that way'. Havok asks if he would allow his wife to die and Cyclops said he would if it meant for his people to live. Nightcrawler warps into the scene and tells the brothers that Steve Rogers has assembled an army. This army turns out to be the reformed villains, calling themselves Avengers now... and the X-Men are more than eager to take them down.
Meanwhile, Spider-Man and Deadpool are staking out Apocalypse, and rather than being stealthy, the Merc with the Mouth decides take him head on. Spider-Man tries to defuse the Gene Bomb while Deadpool distracts Apocalypse, but he is quickly taken down. Now the villain focuses his attention on the web-slinger as Deadpool tries to hold the huge mutant back. He punches Spidey through the wall and leaps after him with Deadpool still clinging onto him as they join the rest of the fighting outside.
Nightcrawler warps into the scene and flings Spider-Man into a wall with his tail. Before he can stab him with his sword, Carnage swoops him and kicks Nightcrawler off him. Sabertooth leaps at Havok and slashes his face saying that Wolverine was right about the Summers always screwing things up for the rest of the mutants. Storm blasts him back with lightning and says the time for them giving mercy on their enemies is over. As the fights continue, Deadpool keeps singing about love and peace. Apocalypse punches him into the ground.
Meanwhile in Latveria, the Scarlet Witch continues her attack against Dr. Doom, Magneto and Quicksilver. Pietro tries to reason with her but Wanda wants to use her powers to end her bloodline. Her attack completely drops Quicksilver... but Magneto is unaffected. Wanda is surprised and realized that this proves that there was no real blood relation between Magneto and the Maximoffs. Magneto asks about attacking her own brother Pietro, and she comments this was all his doing for getting him involved in the Brotherhood and trying to set him into the same dark path he was in. Dr. Doom escapes and Wanda says she will destroy Latveria in his absence.
Iron Man calls Captain Falcon America to San Francisco and updates him on the current fight between the X-Men and the super villains. Kluh is now with them and they all agree that they're better off with the X-Men dead.
Back to the battle, Deadpool is trying to snap Genesis out of his Apocalypse form. Deadpool tells him that Evan gave them hope and as Genesis, he thought he was better than this. Apocalypse beats Deadpool bloody and yanks his head off declaring that he is better than humans and soon their time will end as the bomb starts counting down to one second.
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The story starts heating up as now we have the X-Men preparing to nuke non-mutantkind with their X-Gene Bomb.... which is ..... the kind of thing they're usually fighting against from other super villains. Geez. The Avengers have become tyrants, but the X-Men have become downright genocidal.
Guess we needed to buy that Nova comic to see his battle against Kluh. No thanks. But Kluh must have won since he's right back with the Avengers without a scratch on him.
A new plot thread opens up as now we have the possibility of Magneto NOT being Pietro and Wanda's father. Oh come on now you guys. If anything combines the X-Men and the Avengers into the same universe, is the fact that two Avengers, the Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver, are actually the children of the Master of Magnetism, greatest enemy of the X-Men. It's the main reason the Maximoffs keep bouncing back and forth between joining the Avengers, the Brotherhood and the X-Men, mostly due to the Scarlet Witch always freaking out and going insane.
While it does raise interesting questions, mostly why Magneto adopted these kids if they aren't indeed his kids, or why he was the impression that they were his kids or whatever, it just feels way too late in the game to suddenly declare Magneto isn't their father, especially with all they've done throughout the years. I assume you have to get Magneto's new series to see how all of this is going to go down.
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