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AXIS Revolutions 3

Posted by John Klein III on March 26, 2015
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AXIS Revolutions 3

Nice Shot

Writer Ray Fawkes

Artists Pepe Larraz & Rodrigo Zayas

Colorist Rachelle Rosenberg

VC’s Travis Lanham

Cover by Ken Lashley & Paul Mounts, such a great cover!

The nice thing about this issue is that someone remembered that Kitty was present at the Inversion spell.

New York City.  The police are gathering outside of a bank and shooting wildly inside.  None of the bullets are landing.

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I sort of adore a cocky Shadowcat.  Look at that power control!

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She doesn’t care that anyone learns her real name, which I would like to see if there is any fallout from this issue but I doubt anything from AXIS will be referenced again except for the big bulletpoints.

The police are moving closer and some detectives are trying to get CEO Emmett out of the bank as Kitty is trying to get pass the giant lock on the bank door.

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As Shadowcat ever done this trick before?  It seems brand new, it makes sense that a corrupted Kitty would think of clever ways to apply her powers.  I’ve gone on record before about if she and Invisible Woman wanted to go on a killing spree, no one would ever stop them.  Susan would make them invisible and Kitty would phase random objects into people’s heads.  By the time the body hit the floor, they would be underground.

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I also like the idea of how easily, once you remove the back of a wall, the security boxes are easy to get to.  Grant it, the wall would be doubly enforced but if you phase it away, super easy.

She also wants to be seen.  She could have gone through the back of the bank, got into the security safes and gotten out of there without anyone noticing.

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As Shadowcat is turning around, the lady she told her name to, has picked up a gun.  For some reason, she isn’t letting the fleet of police officers do their jobs.  Kitty tells her to go ahead and shoot, and the lady does.

Kitty straight up lets this lady shoot at her so that the bullet will phase through her and hit the CEO guy, which is totally messed up.  This should also be followed up.

Shadowcat’s motivation for the bank robbery is that the CEO has been funneling billions of dollars and placing the money into anti-mutant lobbies.  So she is corrupted but her main goal of protecting mutants is still there.  That’s pretty twisted.

Kitty gives the lady a bunch of cash and tells her that the photographs will show that she was paid to do it.

But is that right?  Wouldn’t the officers just explain that the lady was ‘tricked’ into killing the CEO.  So that lady has nothing to worry about, unless she was next in line for promotions.  Though that bank will probably be experiencing some in-office promotions.  You know, when enough time has passed.
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Kitty makes her way, easily, through the police squad.  She hijacks a police cruiser.

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The police know that they are chasing the X-Men’s Shadowcat.  Apparently, they know how to take her down, with gas, as she still has to breathe.  Who provides that information?  Is that some messed up protocol that came out of the Civil War files that Tony Stark gathered?  I know he kept them all private but it is the government, they probably had back ups.

Kitty likes that she is being pursued.

The police shoot a gas canister into her car.  She swerves into a police barricade and the car explodes.

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Don’t worry, Shadowcat phased feet away and walks with the box full of jewelry.  Pretty clever.

Pretty good little story here.

There is also a Sandman story in this issue

Deadpool Volume Three Issue 38

Posted by John Klein III on March 7, 2015
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Deadpool V3 38

Writers Brian Posehn & Gerry Duggan

Penciler Mike Hawthorne

Inker Terry Pallot

Colorist Ruth Redman

Letterer VC’s Joe Sabino

Cover Artist Mark Brooks

Great Cover Homage to Uncanny X-Men 210, which I wouldn’t have bought on that alone but Kitty is in the character corner.

The reason why Kitty isn’t on the cover, is that the ones featured on the cover are in the issue as – for some reason – there are North Koreans who have been transformed into the X-Men!

With the AXIS Inversion spell, Deadpool has been balanced, he is now ZenPool.  It is a thing.  It makes sense as he tries to be good by doing bad things and he also does bad things while trying to be good, so him becoming balanced seems to be the right direction.

So Zenpool and the North Korean X-Men are fighting the proper X-Men – Colossus, Nightcrawler, Storm and Rachel Grey.  The North Korean X-Men are people who are forced to look like – Colossus, Nightcrawler and Storm, with powers and all.  It is easy to tell the pairs apart as the North Koreans look like they have skin grafted on top of them. The two groups fight and fight.

Zenpool gets them out of the Danger Room.  There is a quick fight once they are out of the Jean Grey School – not sure where the thousands of students are but it is only the X-Men who are present.

Les Metropolis Monster.  Mrs. Deadpool, Shiklah, is not happy with Zenpool.  She misses their games of grab ass.  Zenpool isn’t as passionate as Deadpool was – which makes sense.

Later, inn the Mages Guild of the Monster Metropolis.  The mages are trying to figure out a way to reverse the AXIS Inversion spell.

Apocalypse makes an announcement on live television, that Zenpool sees on his phone.  Apocalypse has given humans 24 hours to evacuate New York City.

Issue ends on the War-Torn Streets of Manhattan.  Zenpool confronts Apocalypse and gets punched through the stomach for his troubles.

The Letters Page is answered by Deadpool, which I adore.  Letters are from – AK of Norway, Ewan, Erik Tkach of San Jose, CA, Ivan Borodin of Los Angeles, CA, Scotty Joe, Megan from Canada, A person without a grasp of poetry, Auora and Marie.

AXIS 4

Posted by John Klein III on February 26, 2015
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AXIS 4

Writer Rick Remender

Penciler Leinil Francis Yu

Inkers Gerry Alanguilan and Lienil Francis Yu

Colorist Edgar Delgado

Letterer Chris Eliopoulos

Book Two : Inversion – Chapter One

Kitty made the cast list, so we know we are in for a good time!

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SHIELD Helicarrier Iliad.  Above the Atlantic.  Is it really a good idea to name the Helicarriers, with how often they crash?

FalCap and Hulk are meeting with Fury Jr. and Maria Hill.  Fury Jr. keeps saying things that implies that he’s been doing this for years or decades, instead of the year he really has been doing it.

The Stark Sentinels have been dismantled.  The Red Skull camps have been torn down.  Fury refers to the events of the previous three issues as – World War Hate.

Hill wants the Red Skull handed over to SHIELD, as they have a special containment facility built specially for him.  Which seems like a waste of expenses, as long as it is a SHIELD prison, Red Skull should be able to break out of it within a month.

FalCap is acting way crazier and more confident, just because he has the title of “Captain America” people are treating him differently and it is going to his head.  I know he is under the Inversion spell, so he has that excuse but he was acting like the top boss in the first issue and that was prior to the spell.  Honestly, just because he got a temporary promotion, I don’t get how or why the characters around him are tooting his horn so much.

Hill states that no one has seen Stark in days.

Hulk is a simpleton here, which seems odd as I know in his own title, he is suppose to be a genius, or at least, able to form proper sentences.  FalCap shuts down what he has to say and goes as far as to tell Hulk that he didn’t ask for his opinion.

As FalCap is leaving, he punches Fury Jr. to his silly face.  He calls Scarlet Witch so she can schedule an Avengers meeting but to leave Steve Rogers out of it.

Bushwick, Brooklyn.  A street level villain, the Squid, has a family hostage as outside, the police are not helping matters.  Just then, Carnage breaks through the window and subdues the criminal and his gang, the Tentacles.  Pretty clever.  Carnage leaves a note behind, calling himself Friendly Neighborhood Carnage.  Spider-Man isn’t thrilled to see that note but he is impressed that Carnage didn’t kill anyone nor take their money.

San Francisco, Giants Stadium.  Iron Man appears at a game.  Iron Man offers his Extremis App to those in attendance.  The app turns your inner beauty to your outer beauty, so you don’t have to live with any more imperfections.  He tells them that the app is free and it is already in their phones, so they only have to activate it.  Those who will use it will be more attractive and never age.  Matt Murdock is at the game.  This is essentially setting up the opening issues of Superior Iron Man, guest starring Daredevil.  Pretty cool to have two heroes calling San Francisco, their home.

This section ends with Tony drinking alcohol.

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Jean Grey School for Higher Learning.  Storm is presenting a speech.  Kitty is on the stage, second from the right.  We’ll see a better angle of her on the next page.  She is standing between Rogue and Colossus.  This wouldn’t be a bad roster – Sunspot / Jean Grey / Storm / Havok / Nightcrawler / Rogue / Shadowcat / Colossus.  It would be a pretty old school team but that’s an A-List roster!  I guess it would be Uncanny Avengers plus Excalibur with Storm and Jean thrown in there.

Storm is tired of all of the humans trying to kill them, this latest attempt will be their last.

Oya whispers that she thought Quire defeated Red Skull, as he clearly told her that.

Storm references how the humans created these camps and are responsible for other bad events that have effected mutant kind.  Xavier is gone and Wolverine is dead.  A mutant controlled by a cosmic being killed Xavier and Wolverine foolishly open up a vat of adamantium and allowed it to spill all over himself.  Sure a human pressed the button to start the adamantium pumping into the vat, but Wolverine could have diffused the situation a number of ways.

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Why are Kitty’s hands as if she is being arrested?  Colossus appears to be doing the boy version of that.

Storm is going on about no more mutant on mutant fights.  I guess the Schism is officially over now.  It only took three years.

Not only that, but Storm is talking about out right attacking the humans.

Havok, whose face is messed up (when did that happened as it appears find in issue three) takes the mic.  Xavier’s dream is no longer the X-Men philosophy.

The new philosophy?  Apocalypse’s Survival of the Fittest.  Apocalypse is the new leader of the X-Men!  He stands with Storm, Havok and Cyclops, so this is for real.

FalCap is not happy that the X-Men are forming an army.  At the Avengers meeting is – Wasp, Hulk, Scarlet Witch, Medusa, Luke Cage and Boy Thor.

Wasp doesn’t want to fight the X-Men, she still remembers the time she and Havok were married and had a daughter.  Boy Thor wants a battle and they know the X-Men are coming for Red Skull who may be a shell for Xavier.  Luke Cage also doesn’t want a fight, he wasn’t on Genosha, so he isn’t affected by the Inversion spell.  Medusa was there, so she is glad to be free of Inhumans and feeling responsible for them as their Queen.

To prevent the X-Men getting Red Skull, FalCap suggests they just kill Red Skull.  All but Hulk doesn’t want to go through with it.  Their big plan is to present Red Skull to the X-Men and kill them while they are distracted – which I bet would work.

Jarvis is the only thing standing between the Avengers and Red Skull.  Scarlet Witch hits him with a force spell, knocking him to his feet.  Hulk is concern for Jarvis and helps him back up.  Now the Hulk is blocking the Avengers from the Red Skull.  Cage punches Hulk to the ground and Boy Thor threatens that Hulk will be buried next to Red Skull, which makes Hulk sad.

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The Hulk is Bruce Banner’s Rage and Kluh is Hulk’s rage – which is a thing, apparently.  Kluh is hulK backwards, get it?  Pretty clever.

Kluh wants to fight and kill.  Kluh refers to Hulk as ‘Doc Green’ who is suppose to be a version of Hulk with Bruce’s mind.  Kluh charges out of a wall and into the general public.

Issue ends with the Avengers discovering that Red Skull has escaped.

There is an ad for Superior Iron Man, Tony gone bad.  Just like Superior Spider-Man, it is a whole new branding situation.

Other titles that came out around this time – AXIS Revolutions 2 / AXIS Hobgoblin 2 / AXIS Carnage 2 / Deadpool 37 / All New X-Factor 16 / Magneto 12 / Wolverine and the X-Men 12 / Nova 23 & 24 / Avengers World 15 / Captain America & The Mighty Avengers 1 & 2 / Superior Iron Man 1 & 2 / Loki : Agent of Asgard 8

None of which I bought.  The next issue of AXIS I own is issue seven.

 

AXIS 3

Posted by John Klein III on January 18, 2015
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AXIS 3

Writer Rick Remender

Penciler Leinil Francis Yu

Inker Gerry Alanguilan

Colorists Matt Milla, Laura Martin & Edgar Delgado

Letterer Chris Eliopoulus

Book One : Red Supremacy – Chapter Three

Okay, this one took a lot of work to figure out if I needed to keep this one.  Marvel Database stated Kitty was in this issue but comicbookdb stated she didn’t.  I looked and looked and couldn’t see her.  Then my pal, Kaiolino, pointed out where she was on the final page and now I see where she is on the page. Right between Havok and Apocalypse.

All this after I had my dear amigo, a0040pc, delete her off of the Marvel Database.  I readded her, as it was my fault and misunderstanding.  It was quite the day.

So before all of that happens, these events occurred :

So the heroes failed.  Leaving Magneto to create a new Brotherhood – Jack O’Lantern, Doctor Doom, Loki, Mystique, Deadpool, Sabretooth and Enchrantress.  Those made the cover but these folks are also in the group – Carnage, Hobgoblin and Absorbing Man.  Which is a bit awkward as Carnage and Hobgoblin got side miniseries.

Remender writes all the villains with bantering amongst each other, which I like.  I wouldn’t mind him having a go on a Super Villain Team-Up title.

The issue actually opens with Deadpool dragging Iron Man to safety.  I like Deadpool’s wartime narration, it only lasts the first page.  It reminded me of that Community episode – Pillows and Blankets.

Deadpool is explaining that he came with the villains but he is a hero.  Iron Man just wants to know where he is being dragged to.

The Hobgoblin is like the Green Goblin but more, Hob – great observation Deadpool / Remender.

Is Carnage from the South or a redneck?  I don’t believe I read him before in that voice.

Most of the villains want to go back to killing once they are done saving the world.

Enchantress makes a quip about fondue parties.  What happened to the Asgardians?  Too much time on Earth?  But that is where they are most interesting.

Off to the side, Doctor Doom and Loki watch.  Carnage ripped out one of Red Onslaught’s eyes, the left one.

Loki tells Magneto that he is a hugger now.

With Iron Man out of commission, Quentin Quire is blocking Red Onslaught’s telepathic powers.  Genesis is trying to encourage Quire.

Captain America appears and distracts Red Onslaught.  Turns out it is only Mystique in disguise.  She must be really mad  that Red Skull took half of her late husband’s brain.

Speaking of which, Quentin Quire and Genesis huddled together reminded me of when Nate Grey and Franklin Richards were inside Onslaught, in the original story.  Maybe its just me.

Enchantress makes Red Onslaught fall in love with her.  He is pure hate so now with love added to him, he’s all love now.

Meanwhile, Absorbing Man becomes adamantium (because of the Sentinels) and tears them apart.  Doing so releases Doctor Strange and Scarlet Witch.  Now they can recreate their spell to reverse who controls Red Onslaught and put Xavier back in charge.  As the last time he was in charge of an Onslaught, it worked out perfectly.  Not

For some reason, this undoes Enchantress’ spell and Red Onslaught is back to being pure rage.

Quire can’t take it anymore and passes out.  Now Red Onslaught has access to all of his powers.

Deadpool wonders, since he saved Iron Man, if he can be an Avenger.  Iron Man turns him down, which seems harsh.  He’s a very much alive Wolverine and he’s funny, why not add him?  Deadpool dragged Iron Man somewhere so he can recharge.  I like that Deadpool gets to call Iron Man a jerk.  That’s one word for him.

While Strange and Wanda are casting their Inversion spell, It leaves them defenseless but Genesis is there to protect them.  Or try too.  All of the united villains are now under Red Onslaught’s sway.  Sabretooth is about to kill Genesis when Deadpool saves him, just in time.  An awesome callback to Remender’s Uncanny X-Force arc, Final Execution.

Iron Man is now on the scene so he is able to go back to blocking Red Onslaught’s telepathic powers.

Doctor Strange gets knocked out, so it is up to Doom to assist with Wanda’s spell.  The spell is successful and minutes go by.  The villains are gone and the heroes are waking up.

Iron Man states it was five minutes of missing time.  He calls Deadpool an annoyance, even though he help save the day plus he is right behind Iron Man.  So ungrateful!

Havok is holding Red Skull’s human body.  The threat of Red Onslaught is gone.  Now the question is, is Xavier controlling the body.  The X-Men want to take him to their school.  The Avengers want to lock him up.  Havok sides with the X-Men.  Captain Falcon wants Red Skull to stand trial for his crimes, as if that has ever happened after one of these events.

Havok wants to wait until Steve Rogers shows up.  Rogers lost his Super Soldier Serum and now he is a very fit 80 year old man.  Rogers wants to take Red Skull to prison, surprising everyone that he took the Avengers’ side.  Not

Havok splits with the Avengers, Rogers can now find some other mutant figurehead.

Genesis is now Young Apocalypse.  He tells the gathered heroes that there is no sign of Xavier in the Red Skull’s body.  Somehow he knows this.  Deadpool hugs Apocalypse.  Evan tells him not to do it again.

Havok agrees to let the Avengers take Red Skull’s unconscious body.  Wasp doesn’t want Havok to leave.

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See Kitty between Havok and Apocalypse?  I didn’t at first.

Harsh of Havok speaking to Wasp like that!

Looks like the X-Men and the Avengers are back at odds, again.

Poor Wasp and Havok though but I only really know them from their flirting days of Uncanny Avengers, their marriage and child are only plots I’ve read summaries of.

Next issue has Apocalypse teaming with the X-Men and Hulk being inverted to Kulh (get it?)

I’m not set to get any of these item in titles – Magneto 11, All New X-Factor 15, Loki Agent of Asgard 7, Deadpool 36, AXIS Hobgolbin and AXIS Carnage 1.

Hopefully Kitty keeps showing up in this crossover.

AXIS 1

Posted by John Klein III on December 22, 2014
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AXIS 1

Writer Rick Remender

Artist Adam Kubert

Color Artists Laura Martin & Matt Milla

Letterer Chris Eliopoulus

Book One : Red Supremacy – Chapter One

So Glad Kitty Pryde showed up in this, felt so silly preordering these!  So rare for her to have a part in these mega crossovers.  Hopefully she keeps showing up!

I see people are referring to this as,  Avengers & X-Men : AXIS but that seems overly cumbersome and silly.

What I didn’t know that happened was that Red Skull took over Genosha, and made it a mutant concentration camp.  No one seemed to notice that the country went back to its old ways.  Magneto showed up and killed Red Skull.  Once he did that, there was an explosion of psychic energy and now we have . . . Red Onslaught.

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Feel proud that I know all of these characters, but there are also no newer characters involved.

Kitty made it to the cast page, that’s pretty cool!  She made it to the cast page of Original Sin 3 but I couldn’t make out which character she was on those two pages but if Marvel says she was there, she must have been one of those unidentifiable bodies.

Onto the issue.  Right off the bat, these first few pages’ border has the AXIS logo repeated.  What is up with that?

Los Angeles.  There is an over growth of planet life.  Apparently Black Widow watches the Real Housewives reality series.  I don’t quite believe that but she said it, so it must be true.  I do like the idea of what shows heroes make a point to watch with their busy schedules.  Like when I read that President Obama watched True Detective.  At this point, Steve Rogers is super old (he lost the super soldier serum) and now Falcon is the new Captain America.  Not sure if this is the sole reason why he is leading the team, it doesn’t seem like a good enough reason.  Vision uses the word smidgen and Tony makes fun of him for it.  But then proceeds to use the term for the rest of the issue.

Turns out, X-Men old timey villain . . . Plantman, is causing all of the plant chaos!  CapFalcon orders Thor to hit things and Thor takes offense to being given orders.  Which makes perfect sense.  Who is Falcon to be giving orders?

We start seeing that Red Onslaught is tampering with people’s minds.  Mostly, he takes the smallest negative thought and makes the person only focus on that one thought.  Even Vision is affected.  Plant Man can’t believe the heroes are fighting each other, it isn’t like the only thing they have been doing since 2006.  Iron Man isn’t affected.

Unfortunately, Hulk is and he double stomps Iron Man.  Iron Man has built a telepathic inhibitor into his helmet.  I get the impression this is suppose to be new information but I know that it was revealed in Thunderbolts 12 when Baron Zemo / Citizen V used mind control to get all of the heroes to do what he wanted.  It didn’t work on Iron Man because of the telepathic inhibitor.  Iron Man is lucky enough to be able to increase the radius of his telepathic inhibitor, so the Avengers calm down.  He is able to do this as he was able to locate the negative frequency and he just reversed it.

Avengers Mansion.  Steve Rogers is leading the superhero community.  The whole world is breaking out into hate riots.  Elsewhere, Havok wakes up.  Wasp and their daughter, Katie, are in bed with him.  He sees an image of Xavier minus the top of his head, which wakes him up.  He isn’t lucky as he is in Genosha.

We get a double page spread of Red Onslaught, who looks like Onslaught but with Red Skull’s head and tentacles.  Not sure why he has tentacles, to be more evil, I suppose?  The AXIS border stops with this sequence, as well.  Red Onslaught wants to bring about, the Reich Eternal.  Magneto is trying to fight Red Onslaught.

Scarlet Witch and Rogue are also trying to fight the giant villain.  Red Onslaught takes over Wanda’s mind, so fast!  Havok shows up and attacks Magneto as he is still upset Magneto started this mess.  Which is odd, if everyone is trying to attack one threat, why would you attack one of your fellow temporary teammates?  Makes no sense but that’s Havok for you.

Magneto is knocked into a room and sees some prisoners.  Quentin Quire, Cyclops and Genesis are the prisoners.  Magneto calls Genesis, Child Apocalypse, which I sort of like.  Poor Cyclops has to bend his knees, as the shackles are built for younger people.  The camps are actually reeducation camps, which I guess sounds better?  Havok attacks Cyclops, as he is the worst.  The two are bickering over who is following Xavier’s dream.  Genesis hits both of them, as neither is living up to Xavier’s dreams.

Ahab stabs Genesis through the chest with a harpoon, get it?

Avengers Tower.  Steve Rogers is not happy with the state of the world.  He has various heroes out there, trying to calm things down.  Iron Man reveals it will take days to create a global frequency block.  Why Rogers doesn’t tell him to get started on this task, is beyond me.  Iron Man sees Wasp is sad.  Wasp tells Tony that over in Uncanny Avengers, when they were in the future, she and Havok had a daughter.  They gave her up to save all of the children in the world.  She is sad as the heroes always have to make the great sacrifices.

Wanda starts throwing chaos magic across Genosha.  Rogue absorbs a little of Red Onslaught’s powers.  Which gives her telepathic powers.  She is able to go into Red Onslaught’s mind and we see that Mental Xavier is trying to attack from within.  Xavier also gives Rogue a pep talk.

Rogue attacks Wanda, snapping her out of it.  Ahab loves hurting Summers peeps.  He throws a harpoon at Havok and Cyclops takes it to the arm.

Rogue tries to give Wanda a pep talk.

The Avengers finally get to Genosha.  They start attacking Red Onslaught.

The Jean Grey Staff shows up and helps the Summers Bros – Storm, Colossus and Nightcrawler.  They all say some odd things.  Kurt implies that the Summers family variety show is heartwarming.  Storm goes with it, stating that Cable does a spectacular mime routine and Rachel does face painting.   Colossus adds that Corsair does a fabulous spaceman spiff dance.  Kurt tells Cyclops that they showed up as they are family.  Cyclops and Havok shake hands,

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Look, Kitty joined the fight!  That’s awesome!

Iron Man starts bragging for shutting down the negative frequency.  Red Onslaught knocks Tony off of that high chair of his.  He has been secretly manipulating him to create all types of weapons for him.  Red Onslaught was able to access Tony’s lost memories of all of the secrets he learn from Civil War.

Issue ends with Red Onslaught’s newest weapons – two adamantium Stark Sentinels.  Also, the AXIS border came back for one last moment.

I already know that Kitty nor Magik show up in issue two so maybe they will be in issue three.  Let’s hope!

AXIS 7

Posted by John Klein III on December 4, 2014
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AXIS 7

Writer Rick Remender

Artist Adam Kubert

Colorists Edgar Delgado & Jessus Aburtov

Letterer Chris Eliopoulos

New World Disorder : Chapter One

AXIS 7 Cast List

Kitty made the cast list!  So we know we are in for a good time!  Except that she only shows up on the one page, but that’s enough for us here.

So we have the fourth issue and now we jump to this seventh issue, also this is the last issue of AXIS that I own as Kitty doesn’t appear in the final two installments.

Apparently since the last issue I read, the inverted Avengers have taken regular heroes hostage.  The X-Men have decided to create a Gene Bomb.  Scarlet Witch tries to be useful by attacking Doctor Doom but her father and brother stop her.  Once again, Polaris is not involved with her silly family affairs.

The first page still has that silly AXIS banner on the top and bottom of the pages.

Apocalypse Ship.  Wasp is a prisoner of the X-Men.  Havok recalls to his better and older brother, Cyclops, the time he was married to Wasp.  Havok would like to spare her from the Gene Bomb but all humans have to die.  Nightcrawler interrupts brother time and tells them to get outside.

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So the Inverted Villains are going by, Astonishing Avengers – so add them to the long list of Avengers members.

I like Rogue wanting to beat up Avengers, good for her!  Maybe now she can appear in X-Titles again.

Shadowcat’s stomach must have been in slips, having to be held by Colossus.

Zenpool has some fun narration going on in these first few pages.  He and Evan, who is now full grown Apocalypse, have a history from Remender’s Uncanny X-Force days.  The funnest running gag is Zenpool calling Spider-Man his sidekick.  Spider-Man takes offense as his ego is the size of his decision to make a deal with the devil and rewrite time so that he was never married to his wife and so his elderly aunt can live for another 15 years, as an old woman.

Another fun aspect is that Zenpool makes comments and Apocalypse actually responds to a few of them, instead of just ignoring it.

The Zenpool / Spider-Man handicap match against Apocalypse breaks through a wall and is outside.  We see that Carnage is fighting Rogue.  Nightcrawler is fighting Kid Loki.  Nightcrawler moves on to start fighting Spider-Man.  Carnage switches opponents and starts fighting Nightcrawler, saving Spider-Man.  Spider-Man is not comfortable with Carnage’s new outlook on life.

Sabretooth, now dressed in Wolverine’s now classic brown and tan costume, is mad at Cyclops as that is simply what Wolverines do to Cyclops.  It is ridiculous.

Colossus is fighting Absorbing Man.  Shadowcat, is nowhere to be seen.

Latveria.  Doctor Doom is quasi-responsible for Scarlet Witch’s actions during House of M, including the whole genocide attempt of the mutant race.  So she is upset that Magneto and Quicksilver are preventing her from killing him.  She gets so mad that she casts a spell to bring down all of her bloodline.  Surprisingly, only Quicksilver goes down, Magneto is still standing.  So now we know that he is not the father of Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver, which we learned way back in Avengers 186 / Uncanny X-Men 125 and the twins learned in Vision and Scarlet Witch 4.  Which was in February 1983 for the twins and for us, October / September 1979.  Avengers 186 reveals their mother is Magda and in Uncanny X-Men 125, we see that Magneto fathered a daughter with Magda and possibly two more.

So this sort of blew up the Internet, as people now think the Avengers film forced Marvel to make the twins Inhumans instead of Mutants, or at least, not mutants.  Though, hasn’t there been 32 years of evidence that show that Magneto is clearly their father?

During all of this, Doctor Doom teleports away.

San Francisco.  Superior Iron Man has invited FalCap to a meeting that also has Thor, Kluh, Luke Cage and Medusa.  They want to kill both the X-Men and all of the heroes.

Apocalypse finally tires of Zenpool’s mouth and starts wailing on him.

There is an ad for Amazing Spider-Man 11 that has Amazing vs Superior, which is fun to see the logos used that way.

On the final page, Apocalypse is holding Zenpool’s head as his body lays on the ground.  He is surrounded by the X-Men, minus one.  Which, really, why even have Kitty Pryde in the issue – just to forget all about her?  But that’s Kitty’s history with these events.

Issue ends with the Gene Bomb counting down to zero.  Don’t worry, it doesn’t go off.

The other tie-ins to this issue are – Amazing X-Men 14, Avengers World 16, AXIS Revolutions 3 & 4 (we’ll be reviewing issue three in a few days), AXIS : Carnage 3, AXIS : Hobgoblin 3, Captain America & the Mighty Avengers 3, Deadpool 39, Loki : Agent of Asgard 9, Nova 25 and Superior Iron Man 3.