Uncanny Avengers #21 Review – Reason No. 479 Why You Never Monologue
Things are not looking good for the Unity team. Wong and Spider-Man are doing their best to fend off Synpase, Human Torch, Doctor Voodoo, Wasp, and Quicksilver without hurting them. Cable’s mind has been completely wiped. And Rogue is literally beating Deadpool to death. This is all going on right in front of Red Skull, who is delicately eating his dinner within Avengers Mansion. He’s boasting to Deadpool how this is all about to be over, and he’s won. He’s so confident, he asks Sin to bring him his dessert.
But then he makes a serious mistake. He lets Deadpool speak. Since he monologued most of last issue, he’s going to let Deadpool do the same. Will villains ever learn that monologuing is bad? Then again, if they did, we wouldn’t have very many wins for the side of good.
Deadpool taunts that the Red Skull doesn’t know everything about their current situation, a fact that the red guy finds hilarious. As such, he lets Deadpool continue while he’s pouring chocolate sauce on his ice cream. Thus, Deadpool tells him a story of how he and Rogue planned to take Red Skull down. He goes into Rogue telling him to find her ex-boyfriends, but he couldn’t and so he visited the Jean Grey School to get help. The mansion was in Limbo, but Deadpool decided to explore the hole left behind anyway. As he says, the X-Men are sentimental creatures and they keep lots of trinkets. One happens to be Magneto’s helmet, which he slams down upon Rogue’s head, thus severing her link with the Skull.
What Rogue has done to Deadpool is horrifying to look at, even in comic book form. The look on her face when she realizes what she’s done is even more horrifying. She stops to try to help Deadpool, but he urges her onward to stop the Red Skull. It doesn’t take long for Rogue to catch up with him, but she doesn’t kill him. She only chokes him to unconsciousness and then flies away with him. The now-sane Avengers wonder where she is going with him, asking why she doesn’t kill him. As Deadpool is carted off on a stretcher, he says that killing him was never part of the plan.
Apparently the plan is to excise Charles’ brain from Red Skull’s head, something Beast never agreed to do but evidently will.
The next issue will end Red Skull’s mental tyranny that he’s been exercising since 2012 with the original Uncanny Avengers. I’ll have to wait until next week to see what happens with the rest of the crew and where they will end up. But that’s not really the biggest takeaway from the Red Skull finally losing Xavier’s brain. Red Skull losing his mental hold on the world is going to have immense repercussions, starting with Kobik. Then there’s the question of Steve Rogers and what he’s doing in Hydra, not to mention all of the Hydra agents Skull has been manipulating since 2012.
I’m guessing that after next week, we’ll start to see the downward spiral in the Marvel Universe with Steve Rogers, Sam Wilson, the Avengers, everyone. Guess I better buckle up for a bumpy ride.
Our Rating: Yep
Author: Gerry Duggan
Artists: Kevin Libranda, Dono Sanchez Almara, and Protobunker
Publisher: Marvel Comics
Publish Date: March 15, 2017
Acquired via Purchase
