Finished reading Avengers & X-Men: Axis, spinning out of the pages of writer Rick Remender's Uncanny Avengers series as the emergence of the Red Skull becoming a version of Onslaught gains the attention of the Avengers and the X-Men. The book opens up with the Avengers in Los Angeles fighting against Plantman when each member starts to fight each other when the Red Skull starts to influence them. Meanwhile on Genosha Havok wakes up in Red Skull's concentration camp burning to the ground as a demonic Red Skull over head broadcasting a physic message of hate around the world when the Avengers and the X-Men land on the island to fight against the Red Skull when he unleashes the Stark Sentinel that he got Iron Man to build without his knowledge. After the heroes are brought to a standstill Magneto reruns to the fight with a team of villains. While dealing with the Sentinels and keeping Red Skull distracted Scarlet Witch and Doctor Doom cast an inversion spell in hoping to bring out the dormant Charles Xavier persona. However the spell backfires when it effects all of the heroes and villains on the island with some being instantly noticeable like Evan now looking exactly like Apocalypse as the two teams go their separate ways with the inverted Avengers taking the Red Skull into custody while the tension between the teams is vastly growing. Overall this was a good book as it brings the conclusion on writer Rick Remender's Uncanny Avengers series as the Avengers and X-Men deal with their biggest threat yet, twisted versions of themselves. The character interactions and development for the inverted villains are great as the book dives into their thoughts and feelings about their current heroic situation with characters like Sabretooth and Carnage getting big heroic moments to shine while the inverted heroes not getting a lot of development as their stories are mostly about going after one another. The only one who gets some development is Iron Man as he starts drinking again when he he sets up base in San Francisco. The comedic moments throughout the book are great and feel very organic from Deadpool's hilarious narration before he enters a fight to all of Spider-Man's quips and reactions to the whole inversion. The art is great as it deals with the near continuous action extremely well, while the changing art teams doesn't feel to out of place as it tends to change for a different setting and part of the book. What lets the book down is that it relies on knowing what has happened in the Uncanny Avengers series leading up to this as the last moments of that series is the main driving force for this. 7.5/10
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