Avengers vs X-Men #3(of 12):
Summary: We get started with Wolverine waking up after being fried by Hope last issue. Spider-Man tells Wolverine that the X-Men had surrendered peacefully to Captain America and the Avengers(?!), which Wolvie realizes doesn't sound right at all... Iron Man and Cap are trying to figure out what to do with the mutants, with Cap considering all sorts of steps that would “keep them out of the way”... Tony RIGHTLY tells Cap that he was sounding A LOT like Tony during Civil War(in an AWESOME little piece of dialogue) as Wolvie storms over yelling that Cap had been fooled... It turns out that Magik had defeated Dr. Strange in Limbo and used a spell to make the two look like one another, which allows the X-Men a head start in finding Hope. Meanwhile, Hope is running around San Francisco, acting kind of crazy. Both the X-Men and the Avengers realize the best bet at finding Hope was Cerebra, and the only active Cerebra unit was at Wolvie's school in Westchester... Cap and Wolvie contact Rachel Grey and she tells them that she was getting five different coordinates showing Hope's whereabouts. After she's done talking to Cap and Wolvie, Rachel contacts Lord Summers mentally(!!) and gives him info on where Hope may be, warning him that the Avengers were already on the trail... TRAITOR!!! Cap splits his forces into five groups and sends them to the five locations Rachel gave them(Wundagore Mountain, Tabula Rasa, Wakanda, Latveria & the Savage Land), taking himself, Sharon Carter, Hank Pym and Wolvie with him to the Savage Land. While on the plane, Cap pulls Wolvie aside and bitches him out for going lone wolf back on Crazy Mutie Island and causing Hope to run. Wolvie comes right out with it and tells Cap that he had already seen the Phoenix destroy people he loved and knew that Hope had to die, as there was nowhere Cap could take Hope that the Phoenix couldn't locate. Seeing that Wolvie wasn't going to play by his rules, Cap attacks Wolvie(!!!!) and the two brawl in the back of the plane. The fight is pretty evenly matched, but before we get a definitive winner, Pym SMASHES Wolvie in the back(!!!!), allowing Cap to down him with his shield(!). From there, Cap tells Sharon to open the hatch and Pym kicks Wolvie out of the plane(!) allowing him to plummet several thousand feet to earth. With Wolvie out of the way, Cap instructs the plane to continue onward to the Savage Land. This issue ends with Wolvie emerging from the snow stating that it(saving the world) was all up to him.
Thoughts: Well holy shit, I didn't see THAT one coming! And yes, I realize that I used A LOT of exclamation points in that review, but that Wolverine/Cap battle NEEDED them! See, I'm STILL using exclamation points! I can't stop myself!! Okay, let's start at the beginning here... This issue actually did something I didn't expect, it made Cap look... well, it made him look kind of bad... Iron Man pointing out that Cap was starting to sound like him from during Civil War was a masterstroke from Ed Brubaker(who did the scripting here), because, in a way, it was true... During Civil War, Iron Man truly felt that he was doing the right thing, and that by locking up his friends and teammates, he was saving America. In this issue, Cap wanted to save Hope and the world, even if it meant locking the X-Men and up... That was a very nice comparison. That, coupled with the Cap/Wolvie battle actually has me thinking that for once Cap may not be 100% in the right... So yeah, that Wolvie/Cap fight... I hate to say it, but Wolverine? He's the only one who seems to see the big picture here... Lord Summers is living in a fantasy world where the Phoenix Force will restore mutantkind to their proper place on the evolutionary charts, while Cap seems to think that he can hide Hope from the Phoenix... A cosmic force... Quite frankly, and as much as it's gonna rub people the wrong way? The ONLY way to prevent the Phoenix from bonding with Hope? You have to kill Hope. And only Wolvie seems to have the stomach to do that. So that leaves me in an interesting position... The first two issues I was FIRMLY in the Avengers camp. This issue? I'm kind of leaning towards Team Wolverine, which currently consists of... well, of Wolverine and nobody else. Lord Summers is crazy, Cap is naïve, but Wolvie? He's practical. To wrap this up, this issue was pretty interesting... The beginning dragged a bit for me, the X-Men didn't really do much and I was a bit annoyed by Rachel going double agent. But the fight at the end more than made up for the slower beginning and middle. So for a score, I'm gonna go with an...
Score: 8 1/2 out of 10.
Yup, this fight right here is what got this issue such a high score... Plain and simple.
Did you see the beginning page where it shows the different teams? On Team X-men they showed Sunspot, Magma, and Wolverine's students. Between that and Gambit in the next Vs. I am very curious if something does happen in Wolverine and the X-men.
ReplyDeleteOh, and as far as Cap acting out of character... I think they are moving to him stepping down from SHIELD, and I am perfectly fine with that.
ReplyDeleteYup, and if I remember correctly, I think Wolvie wasn't on EITHER team... It's almost like that page should have been in the next issue or something!
ReplyDeleteI don't know if it's that Cap was acting out of character or if he's simply being overwhelmed. Which would lead to him realizing that he needs to step away from SHIELD after this is all said and done(hopefully). There's A LOT of weight on Cap's shoulders here(the fate of the entire planet and all) and I think this issue(and Academy #29 in a way) was showing us that the pressure was possibly starting to get to Cap.
I am just not sure on this subject either! Being a huge cap fan and having loads of cap books to back it up... I just don't see cap acting like this. Being a little uptight sure, but slugging wolverine in the middle of a somewhat calm dispute between them just seemed off... I loved the fight as well though! Just seems like cap is becoming a bit of a bully.. Idk we'll see. I am expecting good things from the rest of this series and cap is clearly a focus, not just because he leads the avengers either. I do agree that wolvie is the only one that seems to know what needs to be done.. However, there is NO way that cap will ever let that happen. So after typing that I think cap knows what needs to be done but will against all odds TRY to find another way.. which in weird way makes sense that hes acting like this now. Only thing is, should have locked wolvie up instead of kicking him into the ocean. Because now they are going to have to deal with him again down the road. I just do not know what to expect from this series now. I can easily say oh thats out of character, but then (like i just did) justify it somehow! haha anyway. I concur with Venom, and im starting to realize that venom has been the best series of the year for me thus far. It is ALWAYS solid, aside from the circle of four stuff.
DeleteAlso, maybe the cap stepping away from shield is the angle they are going with. Maybe this series will see cap crazy overwhelmed by wanting to do whats right, but realizing that he can't. The civil war stuff was good too i agree there. WIth cap being a big focus of this series we may actually see the downfall of the sentinel of liberty!
ReplyDeleteSo it's not just me! Yeah, Steve's actions here seemed off, but, like I did, you kind of/sort of justified it like I did in my head, Cap! Steve attacking Wolvie and then throwing him out of the plane def did seem really strange though. It's not often you'll see Steve throw the first punch during a peaceful conversation... And tossing him out of the plane seemed like really bad strategy, something you'd never normally accuse Steve of... This event could have a huge impact on Steve, which is something I never expected going in!
ReplyDeleteBest issue of the series so far IMO ! I thought all along cap was being to gung ho. I think wolvie is waaaaaay outta line as cap said what were seeing is three views of how to respond to this IM wants a normal collected approach cap is feeling the weight of live or die choices f the SHEild leadership which he has never had to deal with .. Think about HOW bad losing Bucky bothered him cap has never recovered! Now he has the world to be responsible for and it's got him manic plain and simple . Think about when IM say to him on what to charge them with? Don't cops before they kick your door in have that already settled? Now third mind set is wolverines which is the worst its caps just a few less brain cells I think .. This is the same reason as caps mindset just worse cause it brings up jean and I think this is hurting wolvie bad emotionally . I at the end of this book got the view of a lone wolf bent on killing hope with no balanced mind set just an extreme view of where cap is. Again no one knows if this will be a bad thing or a good thing that's why ironman isn't as far into it as cap. The writers are trying to reach each of our mindsets which I think they are doing much better as this story unfolds. A passive mindset a pessimistic and a insane one all if looked at long enough with only taking in what they want to believe start to make sense .. I believe the Phoenix will take everything back to norm and undo injustices and the deaths that are gonna happen in this series yes I said it DEATHS !! Things are starting to get out of control and it would only makes sense it is gonna get worse and worse as in any story it builds and builds ... I love the cap and wolvie fight! I think cap had no chance IMO he's basically being held up by giant man shortly after the fight because or the injurys he took .. Kinda makes sense cause weapon 1 vs weapon 10 wolvies healing factor puts him in league with battling the hulk somthing cap could never ever do.
ReplyDeleteWolvie has been mentally preparing himself to kill Hope pretty much since she appeared. They all knew she could turn into the destroyer of the world (Bishop pretty much told them) and Wolvie knows he always gets stuck with the X-men's dirty work. That is why he always kept her at a distance.
DeleteI like your perspective of the three viewpoints. I can definitely see Iron man being the peacemaker of this event, and redeeming himself after the events of Civil War.
DeleteBtw! I am completely shocked by Dr. Stranges loss would've never thought he would lose to her first thing I thought of when he showed up in her realm I was like well he has traveled in the mindless ones realm can't be worse then that but guess so .....shocked still he is such a landmark char all the times he has helped in major events and leads the team defenders never would've thought!
ReplyDeleteIn fairness, Strange isn't the Sorcerer Supreme anymore, so he isn't as strong as he was in past battle.
DeleteWow i am also liking this series more and more and definaately on team Wolvie's side here ( Good bye lord Summers)!
ReplyDeleteAlso on side note I noticed you ddint like the Omega drive story line thing like I did :( but i guess its just different opinions.... actually it's just Mark Waids book that is keeping this storyline interesting...
anyways i cant wait for the next issue!!
For avx that is...
DeleteI guess that's the interesting thing about this event, Ultimatum. The characters all seem to have different ideas of what the Phoenix Force is going to do, and so do we, the fans. I personally think the Phoenix Force is going to be responsible for the deaths and that some other party(maybe Wanda, possibly God-Cable) will undo the damage. That's probably why I tend to fall more in line with Wolvie's line of thinking... The only way the Phoenix can be stopped is to take out it's host. But then, who knows. Maybe Lord Summers IS right and the Phoenix will swoop in and do great things for mutantkind. It obviously has a special bond to the Earth, so maybe it's not the destroyer that Wolvie(and myself) seem to think it is. If nothing else, it should keep all of us fans guessing until the very end.
ReplyDeleteHA! Sweet! Welcome to Team Wolvie, Average One! Population three... But we'll gather more strength as time passes... I hope! :P We're definitely a long way from the finish line, but so far AvX is giving us a damn good event... Hopefully it keeps up.
I guess the thing that bugged me the most about that Omega Effect story was the fact that nothing really happened... The end of it was really no different from the beginning, you know? It started off with everybody knowing DD had the drive. It ended the same. I do still think the Omega Drive stuff has some great potential, and I completely expect Mark Waid to continue building that story up.
To be honest, I will pretty much hate this series if it ends up that Hope can control the Phoenix. That amounts to her doing something Jean couldn't, which is blasphemy in my book. I will allow exceptions like Hope is some aspect of the Phoenix or something weird like that.
ReplyDeleteBut, Wanda still has to enter into this mess, and we know that will turn this story upside-down. I have really enjoyed this series so far and I think the ending will not be so easy to guess and catch us all off guard. In other words, I have high hopes for this series.
If I remember, Jean Grey did pretty much control the Phoenix in her later appearances? (Post-dark phoenix saga). I'm a little fuzzy on the comic book history here.
DeleteI wholeheartedly agree with that first paragraph, Jermox. I don't care who Hope is, who trained her or how tough she acts, she is NO Jean Grey! Jean was trained by the most powerful telepath on the planet for YEARS, back when Prof X could give WAY more one-on-one training since there were only 5 X-Men, Jean was a mature woman with years of experience, and Jean was flat-out more level-headed than Hope is. I can see Hope becoming a pawn of the Phoenix, but yeah, if it goes the other way, with the Phoenix as a pawn of Hope, I would almost definitely be annoyed by that... Although even THAT has some potential, depending on how evil Marvel wants Hope to become...
ReplyDeleteWanda is STILL the HUGE wild card out there for this event. I can't stress that enough. Maybe SHE ends up on Team Wolvie? Maybe, and here's a HUGE leap, she brings Jean back(it's not like bringing people back from the dead is unheard of with regards to Wanda or Jean for that matter!) and Jean bonds with/defeats the Phoenix? Back when Jean died, she was obviously getting her Phoenix powers back, so maybe Wanda would rather see Jean, with her experience, get the Phoenix? But yeah, whenever Wanda does show up? That's when you KNOW things are gonna pick up!
Personally I think Wanda will become the Phoenix, she's already pretty much in the middle of both sides anyway, why not make her the Phoenix then you have both a Mutant and an "Avenger" in that role... thats what I'm expecting anyway.
ReplyDeleteNiiiice, JT. Plus she already has UBER-level powers, so she SHOULD be able to keep it all in check since she saw what happened when she flipped out last time. That's the thing(I'm pretty sure we talked about this too), everybody seems to think the Phoenix is coming to bond with Hope... Who's to say Hope has ANYTHING to do with the Phoenix and is simply duping it's powers? It could be coming for Wanda(or hell, any number of characters!), and Hope is just absorbing it's powers as she tends to do anyway. That's yet another possibility here.
ReplyDeleteHey, I.....well hold on. It's ya boy Rad-T agreeing with young Ultimatum to quite a degree. As I was saying....I believe Ultimatum has got a point. Cap isn't 100% after the Logan attack. I know that the super soldier heals alot faster than norm, but I feel his health may be downplayed quite a bit and if Gambit may just win, especially if ole Cajun can still go dark similar to Archangel. Just saying.... And hey, by the way....it's nice to see X-75 and Ultimatum on the same page. Now boys...BEHAVE. HAHA! LOL. KISS AND MAKE UP!...or how about scratch the kiss and just make up. That would be alot better. Sorry, just couldn't resist. Don't be mad at me...I don't like getting jumped. Ha!
ReplyDeleteI'd think if Gambit could still access his Horseman powers that fight against Cap could go a totally different way... But has he been able to do that since the end of that Apocalypse storyline? I don't think he can, but I may be forgetting something. But regular Gambit vs Cap? I just can't think of a way Gambit wins. Cap can block anything thrown at him by Gambit, and he can outfight Gambit up close. It's such a strange fight because you'd think Gambit simply has no shot. Hmm, you know, I just remembered... Gambit has a new series starting up in August(I think)... And here he's fighting the top guy on the Avengers side. Maybe Marvel has some sort of big upset planned to move Gambit into his solo series. Interesting...
ReplyDeleteI'd actually love it if Wolvie finally hooked up with Jean after/during this event. That would be such a slap in Cyclops's face though! But Wolvie is single now, and with this story evolving around the Phoenix, who knows. What Wolvie really needs is to get himself a really powerful ally like Wanda. On his own, there's no way he can stand up against the X-Men AND Avengers. But with somebody who can bend reality? Totally different story. Maybe that's where Wanda comes into this event.
Yeah, the Dr. Strange thing did bug me a bit... I mean yeah, he's not Sorcerer Supreme anymore, and yeah, he was in Magik's base of power, but still, you'd think he'd have enough tricks up his sleeve to not get totally taken down by Magik like that. I was def surprised by that outcome, especially since when you think of magic in the Marvel U, you think of Dr. Strange.
I think the last time I saw Death Gambit was the lead-up to Age of X. He does hint at still having it in one of X-23's later issues.
DeleteWolvie isn't dating Melita anymore? You know I stopped reading Wolverine so this is news to me.
ReplyDeleteI thought they were still together but last I saw she wanted to join Wolvie's band of exes, so who knows. I don't think they are still together. Even if they were, if Jean came back Wolvie would drop Melita like a bad habit.
ReplyDeleteI wonder if Team Cyclops ever considered the possibility that the Phoenix could be coming for Kid Omega or Legion....more so on the latter because of his sudden prominence.
ReplyDeleteNope, Melita and Wolvie hit splitsville after Mystique slept with Wolvie in the guise of Yukio(I think) and then sent some pictures of the act to Melita. Like Jermox said, I think Melita was trying to, or did, join that weird group of Wolvie's exes. And agreed. If Jean came back, especially now that she's not with Scott anymore? Wolvie would be ALLLLLL over that!
ReplyDeleteI honestly don't think they did consider that possibility, Anon. I think Scott sees so much of Jean in Hope, as well as Hope being the... ugh, so called Mutant Messiah, that he's only considering the possibility that the Phoenix is coming for Hope. The Phoenix coming for somebody else would be a HUGE shock not just for Team Cyclops, but for Hope as well.
Okay, Captain America throwing the first punch at Wolverine was out of character and stupid, especially since he knows Wolverine will never hold back in response. But let me make a few other points:
ReplyDelete1) I was shocked Wolverine had the claws out and twice tried to flat out KILL Captain, once when he slashed his chest and again when he went for Captain's head. Even When Wolverine and Scott fought in Schism, Wolverine for the most part didn't fight to kill as was made explicit when he punched Summers in the face with his claws retracted.
2) With more exposition and dialogue, I could understand why Captain was so disgusted by Wolverine's actions. Cap is a soldier, but he's also an idealist. He doesn't believe in killing innocents, or torture or infraction of civil liberties. I believe it was very much in character for Cap to chew out Wolverine(if not the sucker punch).
3) For me, the most interesting conclusion to this crossover would be if Wolverine/Cap actually got Hope killed. How would the mutant community react to their savior being executed by the government in cold blood? How would it deepen Schism lines if Wolverine were to kill a teenager after all he said about protecting the young ones?
Especially if Hope with Phoenix force was able to fix "no more mutants" before cap/wolverine killed her, it would split the Marvel Universe almost like a crucifixion of Christ. For me that scenario is far more interesting to me than Hope's own character.
4) For all that people dislike Scott, he brought about the resolution to this bout with the Avengers in the most peaceful way possible. He wasn't interested in brawling with them, so he used Magik to escape before the fight escalated. If he was really as bloodthristy or arrogant as some people paint him, he wouldn't have taken that route of retreat.....from his own home!
And finally, let me come to my rant of the day :p :
5) Why do Wolverine and the author of this article assume that killing Hope is the only way? Isn't Phoenix blowing up planets right now without a host? So why would it necessarily be safer if Hope wasn't around? Hasn't Rachel Grey managed to exhibit some control of the Phoenix Force? (Which is possibly why she's siding with Scott). Wouldn't it be better to let the Phoenix force enter Hope, and then kill her if she can't control it, as a human host is more vulnerable than the force itself?
I realize Wolverine "does what needs to be done", but the difference in Secret Avengers and X-force is at least he's part of a group making that decision. Right now, he's thinking himself sole judge, jury and executioner and he doesn't seem to be questioning himself in the slightest.
1) The scene where Wolvie flat out punches the wall, with the claws out(with Cap narrowly ducking) shocked me the most, because that wasn't a simple injury type blow(like the slashes to Cap's wrist/chest), but that was Wolvie trying to KILL Cap! I mean there's no way around it, if that blow would have connected, that would have killed Cap, no question! Idk what Wolvie was thinking there...
ReplyDelete2) Agreed 100% about Cap chastising Wolvie here. Wolvie disobeyed a direct order and was going to murder somebody Cap simply wanted to protect. The sucker punch was odd, but everything else Cap did made perfect sense(to me at least).
3) Wolverine actually killing Hope WOULD be a huge shocker, especially in the mutant community, and could make Wolvie a pariah type of character amongst his own kind. I still think Marvel will go the likeliest route(Hope gets possessed by the Phoenix, goes crazy and is stopped, probably by Cable/Wolvie/Cyclops), but I'd love to see the scenario you described(with Wolvie killing Hope BEFORE she actually did anything that bad) or a twist with the Phoenix coming to Earth for a host other than Hope.
4) I can't really disagree with that. Although it could be said he realized that fighting the Avengers wasn't in his best interest and/or that getting to Hope first was way more important than a mindless brawl/possible incarceration.
5) The "why kill Hope now?" point is an interesting one, because as you said, AA, the Phoenix is already on a cosmic rampage WITHOUT a host. The thing is we don't know why the Phoenix is coming to Earth... Why now? Hope's arrival COULD be the reason, and therefore killing Hope would put the Phoenix back into whatever bottle it came out of... Maybe... As for letting Hope gain possession of the Phoenix and then kill her if she can't control it, Wolvie probably figures if that scenario came to pass there would be no way to kill Hope. I mean now, without the full power of the Phoenix, she torched Wolvie, imagine if her powers were amplified a thousandfold!
As for Wolvie's singlemindedness here, it probably has to do with the spectre of Jean hanging over everything. For Wolvie, he's already been in a similar situation before, and saw that it only ended when "Jean"(or the clone of Jean, or whatever...) killed herself out of a sense of responsibility. Maybe Wolvie feels Hope wouldn't have that same sense of responsibility Jean had and as such feels the need to take her out before she gets super-charged? At least that's my take on Wolvie's actions here... I could def be ALL wrong!
I'm so happy to come here and see that everyone had the same reaction to this issue as I did!
ReplyDeleteI thought Brubaker did an amazing job carrying on the work that he's done with Cap in his own title. I mean, we see Cap really teetering on the brink in "Captain America" #11 where he's lamenting the state of the media and screaming at Sharon for freeing Machinesmith. Brubaker has been portraying him for a while now as a guy starting to crack under the pressure of being the nation's top cop, to the point where I actually wondered if we weren't seeing the possibility of him becoming Nomad or the Captain again. So, seeing Brubker carry over those tensions in this issue and then using Tony to call attention to them was brilliant in my book.
I agree with everyone that the idealist in Cap is going to make him unable to take Logan's side, leaving us with basically two leaders, Cyke and Cap, not fully considering all the options that they have on the table. Moving Cap further along the crazy spectrum really upped the ante for me, because, seriously, who knows where this story is going now? When it started, it was all about Cap trying to reason with Cyke, but, now that we've got Cap himself buckling under the pressure, who knows what he's going to do? As we see in "X-Men Legacy," the Avengers are starting to get more aggressive, which doesn't seem to bode well, since, to me, it means that Cap is starting to look at everything from a more emotional (short-term) persepctive. I mean, sure, Wolverine disobeyed an order, but does Cap really think that he's not going to need Logan when everything comes to a head? He just hurls him from a plane, as if being stranded in Antarctica is going to stop him? Again, I think he's starting to act just as emotionally as Cyclops, which should make everything a lot more interesting.
I think the most interesting thing about this event so far is that no one, other than Logan, has proposed a solution. Cyclops hasn't show a way that he plans on helping Hope control the Phoenix Force and Cap hasn't shown a way that he thinks would actually protect her from it. I feel like it's why we're all left taking Logan's side if you don't take one of their sides, since he's the only one with a plan. I'm not sure it's the best plan (I'm not totally sold on her having to die), but it's really the only plan that's been presented. My guess is that it's goign to be Wanda who brings some sort of non-lethal plan to the table.
It was so good to see those comments from you today, JW. That made getting home from a long night at work all the better! Now, with Cap, you can see that he's not really able to cope with the role he's been given, which makes a lot of sense. At his heart he's a soldier. He's a leader of men, and is well respected by pretty much everybody. But he IS a soldier, and dealing with a cosmic fire bird that may destroy the Earth is probably a bit out of Cap's depth. In this event, Cap is THE man. He's making all the decisions for his side, and in this issue you can see the cracks from all of that pressure starting to show. Like you said, what does tossing Wolvie out of the plane accomplish? A few days without Wolvie, before he calls one of his friends and/or angrily walks back to civilization? Strategically it didn't make a lot of sense, which is something you don't usually see from Cap.
ReplyDeleteI like that you brought up the three sides that were put forward in this issue. Really, only Wolvie's "side"(if one man can be an entire side) has a definitive ending... Hope dies. The end. Cap wants to move her away from Earth or hide her or something... If that works, and he puts her in, let's say th Negative Zone and the Phoenix passes Earth by, then what? She stays there for ever? Cap lets the Phoenix destroy other worlds as long as it's not Earth? As for Scott, it's the same thing. Hope takes the Phoenix power in and does what exactly? Magically returns mutantkind to it's former glory? Has the Phoenix shown the ability to change people down to their DNA before? And what if it goes bad like with Jean and you have Dark Hope there? Then what? For two master strategists, Cap and Scott sure didn't think their respective plans through, did they?
As for Wanda, I'm still anxiously waiting to see what role she's going to have in all of this...
Glad to help!
ReplyDeleteTotally agree on Cap. I'm glad, as a fellow Cap fan, you're in the same place I am. Without the stuff Brubaker has been doing in "Captain America," I would've totally questioned the premise that Cap would be making these sorts of short-sighted decisions. But, because of where Brubaker has taken Cap over the last few months, I totally buy it.
I don't think I had fully realized the extent to which neither Cap nor Cyclops had a plan until this issue. Suddenly, when compared to Logan's pretty clear plan, you just had to wonder what exactly they plan on doing. Asking Phoenix really nicely not to eat Earth?
Yeah, Cap really has had it tough lately, and I'm sure the Scourge issues aren't going to help him either, espacially after issue #12(I won't say anything else since I haven't seen a review on your blog for that one yet). When this event ends, Cap's standing in the Marvel U should be very interesting...
ReplyDeleteWell, in all fairness, Scott would definitely ask the Phoenix to restore mutantkind before asking it not to eat the Earth I'd wager. :D