Avengers and X-Men: Axis #7 Review

writer: Rick Remender / artist: Andy Kubert Well, it’s a few months later and yeah, Axis is still here. If that opening sentence sounded like a complete drag, that’s because it was meant to. It may not be the kind of sentiment this review needs but it’s the one this book deserves. At first, this book was so “meh”, I couldn’t decide whether or not it was actually bad. Then, the plot just devolved into something that I imagine kindergarten children would make up on the fly in some kind of round robin storytelling game. Well, the war between the inverted heroes has gotten as nonsensical as humanly possible. When we left off, the inverted X-Men had grown so tired of the inverted Avengers, they decided to cut out the middleman and create a gene bomb that will wipe out all non mutant life on Earth. In other words, the evil X-Men are so out of ideas, they’ve resorted to rehashing the plot from X-Men 2. So, now humanity’s only hope is Spider-Man and a crew of inverted villains swooping into put an end to this fighting and stopping the bomb. In fairness, this issue isn’t as bad as its predecessors have been. The big upside here is that there’s a lot of cool fighting to distract from Rick Remender’s ridiculous plot. Yes, you heard me. The mastermind behind Black Science and Low brought us this jalopy of a crossover event. Let that sink in. Also, there’s a lot of Deadpool talking. A LOT.

I realize that talking and annoying the other characters to death is his whole thing….but for fu…