Duggan, Gerry
AVERAGE REVIEW SCORE:
2 out of 5
(1 book)
The Uncanny Avengers: Unity - Lost Future
(Art by Ryan Stegman, Carlos Pacheco, Mariano Tribo, Dave Meikis and Scott Hanna)
To ease tensions following the conflicts between the X-Men and Avengers, as well as between the mutants and Inhumans, Steve Rogers puts together a special team of Avengers comprised of members from all of those groups. The team soon finds itself put to the test when facing an Inhuman who has created a plague intended to wipe humanity from the face of the Earth to save the planet's ecology.
I didn't like this book, but not because there wasn't good stuff here. The reason I didn't like it was that it actually introduces a whole bunch of really interesting ideas that hooked me in but then did precisely nothing with any of them. Among the things I liked was the idea of Deadpool trying to 'go straight' as an Avenger, the conflict within the team between its mutant and Inhuman members, Synapse's struggles to be worthy of her position on the team and the idea of Johnny Storm trying to reform his wild ways to live up to the memories of Sue and Reed. All of this is really good stuff, but none of it gets any room to develop and left me feeling just a gaping hole of disappointment by the time I finished the book. Presumably it's setting stuff up for later payoff, but that just means the author planned for this book to be just a whole bundle of unresolved and unrealised ideas.
2 out of 5