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Uncanny Avengers #3

Review: Uncanny Avengers #3

My first thoughts upon finishing Uncanny Avengers #3 was: “What the frack was that?”

Seriously? What happened? It started off pretty decent, a nice not-too-subtle-but-workable social commentary, Red Skull using his new powers to cause mischief… then it all goes down hill very quickly.

Red Skull uses his new telepathy (which he shouldn’t be that well trained in) to literally cause average New Yorker’s to kick the living crap out of everyone they believe to be a mutant. Not a single bit of remorse in any of them, no one tries to resist as if they had only been waiting for an excuse to break into a riot (which, if I was a New Yorker, I’d be really angry about, I’m insulted and I’m a Southerner!). Only Captain America can resist and even that is suspect. Wolvie and Havok resist easy enough though.

However, the girls apparently don’t have enough willpower, they have to wait for Red Skull to get temporarily depowered before they can break free. And once they are free they stand around and do almost nothing while the boys fight and play hero. Why isn’t Rogue trying to absorb these bad mutants, or Red Skull himself? And why isn’t Wanda using her magical power to try to counter-act the spell Red Skull cast?

And again, I mention the massively violent level of the mob and the great lengths the writer goes to explain just how violent it is… and is apathetic about it at the same time. “Oh, this person was just having a day, suddenly they’re dead, huh, sucks for them.” So many thought bubbles go into describing the mob/riot as this amoralistic rampage of mindless killing machines, an instant post-apocalyptic dystopia where the blood runs red… it’s almost like the writer himself is getting off on it which is creepy.

If it wasn’t for the fact that Rogue is in this title, I’d be very seriously considering cancelling it already…