Tuesday, August 8, 2017

Uncanny Avengers – Red Skull | Comics

Red Skull returns to torment The Avengers' Unity Squad and Avengers Mansion become a house of horrors.

To promote a cooperative relationship between Avengers, X-Men and Inhumans, Captain America originally formed the Avengers Unity Squad, which is also disbanded by him after his skirmish with Cable while the Red Skull remains at large. The remaining members of team stand back up at their feet to complete their original secret mission.

Skull still has possession of Professor Xavier's telepathic brain, which is why the team wants him neutralized. What the heroes do not know is that he invaded Quicksilver's mind earlier to spring a trap for his teammates. Years ago, when Rogue was a runaway mutant who ran into wrong crowd and fought the X-Men, it was Xavier who vouched for her.

This is one of the reason whys he feels so obligated to recover Charles' remains and then she starts having recurring nightmares of Skull consuming his brain. Nathan examines her to assure her that Johann Shmidt is exploring her psychic defenses. Meanwhile, Skull calls Pietro in to make him go against and decimate his colleagues one by one.

Doctor Voodoo is the first one to be taken and then Human Torch before moving to Synapse. When Rogue makes a call to Wasp, she was fighting a speedster and Cable hears her go down over phone, he sets a trap to slow their attacker but Deadpool got the first hit anyway. Anna Marie managed to catch him but he slipped taking Cable with him.

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Uncanny Avengers – Red Skull | Comics

Telling Wade to find Gambit and Magneto, she flies to Avengers Mansion seeking the villain and mistakenly attacked Torch seeing an illusion. When Skull reveals himself, his brains are blown out by a headshot from DP but that turned out a dupe too. Wilson was actually getting beaten down by Pietro as he was trying to call other heroes for help.

Rogue sees Xavier in front of her and he goes back to the Mansion tormenting the others. His daughter Sin wants to go after Deadpool though, which he deems unnecessary. Using his new power Shmidt almost made Emily cut her hand, had Jericho trapped into the Swamps of Ogun, showed Janet and Johnny Storm their worst nightmares.

When he decided to move to Cable, Shmidt faced heavy rebellion and Nathan stabs his head only to see him come back and realize his enemy to be too strong. So, he initiates "Lifeboat Protocol" and erased his own consciousness before being corrupted by Skull. Doctor Voodoo, Human Torch, Synapse and Wasp are assembled to attack the city next.

Wade somehow pulls him over to Sanctum Sanctorum looking for Doctor Strange but finds his assistant Wong and Spider-Man joins the party as well. Together, the form a stand against the brainwashed heroes who are wrecking havoc in the city but wanting to take the fight to next level, Wade asks Spidey to throw him to the Mansion and he complies.

He meets Sinthea Shmidt on the hallway and takes her down with a punch, while waiting for Rogue to strike. He almost got the drop on Red Skull and then she suddenly came out of nowhere, pounding him to a living pulp. She takes Wilson downstairs beating the living crap out of his body by keep pummeling and making a bloodier mess.

Though Shmidt is unable to get a read of his mind or control it because of its chaotic nature, he assures that he can prolong the pain Wade is experiencing right now. As Skull enjoys his dessert, DP slowly elaborates his plan to come here and then finally reveals his secret weapon out of a bag that scares the living sunshine out of the villain.

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Diabolic Deathtrap of Skull

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Uncanny Avengers – Red Skull

Marvel Comics brings in writer Gerry Duggan (Arkham Manor, Hawkeye Vs. Deadpool) to plot out the fourth storyline of third monthly ongoing of Uncanny Avengers titled "Red Skull", collecting issues #18-22 from the series in 2017. Following the events during Civil War II, the team was officially disbanded and resumed their original mission.

Penciller Pepe Larraz (Star Wars – Kanan – First Blood, Star Wars – Kanan – The Last Padawan) takes the lead alongside Kevin Libranda and Rodrigo Zayas for doing interior arts. Cover arts for the issues involved were provided by illustrator Steve McNiven (Civil War, Death of Wolverine), who was generous enough to lend a hand for the story.

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Dissection of Skull

The hunt for Nazi super-villain Red Skull continues for Avengers Unity Squad but with their recent encounter with The Hand during and a reformed Ultron, many of them are fractured. Still they decide to carry out their search but the villain himself unexpectedly strikes at them after being prepared for a while from under their nose.

Professor X and his early day X-Men team as well as of the Fantastic Four team members showed up only in an illusion sequence of Rogue and Johnny Storm respectively. A classic Avenger makes a spectacular return by the end of the story in a most unexpected way that will shock everyone and leave cue for the next arc "Stars and Garters".
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