The Red Onslaught is unleashed this week in Avengers and X-Men: AXIS #1. It’s what Rick Remender has been building up to since the first issue of Uncanny Avengers two years ago.
Red Skull armed with Professor Xavier’s brain is unleashing World War Hate on mutants, Inhumans and all super powered heroes. While the story is the uniting of Earth’s Mightiest Heroes and the Children of the Atom – AXIS could mark a fractured family’s bitter reunion.
Remender made Havok front and center of his epic when Captain America recruited Alex to lead the Avengers Unity Squad. The new team was Steve and Wolverine’s way to uniting the teams after the events of Avengers vs. X-Men.
Before we see Remender’s take on a major event for Havok in this week’s issue here’s a…
SPOILER ALERT!
IF YOU HAVE NOT READ AVENGERS AND X-MEN: AXIS #1 STOP READING NOW.
SERIOUSLY.
HERE IT COMES.
In Genosha (now under the Red Skull’s control) Alex was reunited with his brother. After a bitter attack Havok and Scott made a truce and decided to work together. Could this be the start of the rival X-Men camps making peace?
“For sure. A lot of the plans I put into place were to examine the idea of unity and to create a greater metaphor about man’s inability to work with one another. I wanted to show that if the left and the right and the people on the various sides can’t reach across the divide and work with each other what will end up happening is terrible catastrophe,” Remender told Comic Book Resources.
“This is my way of having the X-Men and the Avengers earn their unity instead of saying, “Hey, let’s be pals now!” But now that they’ve earned their unity, they realized they’ve done it too late. The heroes are once again being punished for their inability to cooperate and work as one, by the Red Skull having accomplished so much of his goals in the background while they’ve been dealing with other things and one another.
The Scott and the Alex of it all will end up playing a really interesting role down the road as a lot of the various things that we’re doing in this story spill out and have lasting ramifications on both the X-Men and the Avengers. We’ll being seeing a new relationship between Alex and Scott, for sure.”
As we’ve seen in previews for AXIS #4 Cyclops and Havok stand united with… Apocalypse?
Stay tuned.
By Editor