Events are always heavy on action but AXIS is testing new limits with three straight issues of the battle against Red Onslaught and his sentinels on Genosha. The good news is that Remender has a blast this issue writing some of Marvel’s zaniest villains such as Carnage and Hobgoblin as well as tossing around witty banter between the likes of Mystique, Enchantress, and Loki. Despite not being a villain, Deadpool also manages to grab the spotlight and Remender embraces the chance to return to the character he wrote so well in Uncanny X-Force.
The bad news about the issue is that when the dust from the battle settles, the glaring problems about the event as a whole come and hit you upside the head. The last few pages lack so little emotional depth that you easily forget that this whole story started in mutant concentration camps. In fact, it seems the X-Men and Avengers forgot about them too considering the way they hastily take off from Genosha on the final page.
The inspired battle between some classic Marvel villains and giant sentinels serves as a brilliant distraction to the many flaws of Remender’s unambitious story. But this being only the end of chapter one and with the event just getting started, we have a long way to go before this story can be deemed a true failure.
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