Uncanny Avengers have faced Red Skull, Apocalypse, Kang and the Apocalypse Twins but the Unity team’s ultimate destruction could be from each other.
Artist Steve McNiven (Civil War) joins Rick Remender with Uncanny Avengers #14 for the finale of what’s been building since the team formed in the aftermath of Avengers vs. X-Men. Wolverine’s actions in Uncanny X-Force by Remender are back to haunt him and his friendship with Captain America.
“They’ve allowed personal differences and petty rivalries, all of the things we humans allow to create conflict amongst us, to fester,” Remender tells Marvel.com about the next act.
“If I’m in that world, watching these people who are bestowed all of these wonderful powers, these gods and mutants and spider-men and Inhumans and all of this wonderful craziness, why can’t they get along? Why are they fighting again? Especially when there are such stakes. That’s what humans do, though. We butt heads.”
Steve and Logan are at odds over Wolverine’s past with X-Force. Rogue is still angry with Scarlet Witch over her actions in M-Day.
“One of the things I’ve worked towards here is to give everyone on the team a unique perspective,” he says. “It’s all nuanced. We as human beings want to categorize things as black and white, good and bad, hero and villain, but it’s never really that way. The examination of these characters and their disagreements in these first 10 issues is an attempt to spotlight that. I could argue the Wolverine point of view. I could argue the Cap point of view. I have to, if I’m going to write them correctly. Who’s right and who’s wrong? I have opinions. Ultimately it comes down to context.
“Wolverine maybe shouldn’t be an Avenger. Wolverine is a murderer, which goes against what the Avengers are all about in Cap and Wasp and Wonder Man’s minds. On the other hand, maybe Wolverine is the person, because he’s got this blackened soul and is willing to take a life when it’s necessary, maybe he’s done the hard thing and saved the Earth.”
Uncanny Avengers was a bold experiment by Cap and Logan but it appears it won’t work. What will it mean for the future of Marvel Now?
“‘Ragnarok Now!’ is what happens because they can’t get it together, can’t unify, can’t make good on the promise of the Unity Squad to live up to the ideals of Charles Xavier. I’m excited to get to this point to punish them all for their bad behavior.”
For more of the interview here’s the Marvel.com link.
The NEW Four Horsemen of Apocalypse appear in Uncanny Avengers #10 this week.
By Editor