Avengers vs. X-Men: Axis #3 Review

writer: Rick Remender / artist: Leinil Francis Yu So, Marvel’s latest big event got off to a sort of rocky start that hasn’t exactly atoned for the crimes of its predecessor, Original Sin. The pacing and dialogue seemed to be a bit too on the nose and Andy Kubert’s art was decent, but there were too many inconsistencies to ignore. Now, as we move into Book One’s (Fuck’s sake, how many installments are there going to be…?) finale, Rick Remender, now partnered with Leinil Francis Yu, cleans up a few messes while introducing a some all new ones (or old ones, depending on how you look at it. Issue #3 sees the bulk of the Avengers and X-Men defeated, facing certain destruction at the hands of the Red Onslaught and his Stark-made Sentinels (So we’re really not going to talk about Tony Stark has invented 60 percent of the horrible shit that happens to the Marvel Universe? Really? Nobody?). With the good guys on the ropes, Magneto fled the scene to outsource help from unconventional places. And by “unconventional,” what I mean is he recruited a team of just about the most treacherous, murderous, backstabbing villains he could possibly put together on such short notice. There’s a LOT of exposition in the first half of the book from Deadpool, of all people, because…well, because Deadpool’s in the book. The villains joining the fray seemed to be some of what this story needed because three issues of the same fight with the same villain stood a very real chance of getting redundant a…