First Look: United, But Maybe Too Late In Avengers & X-Men: AXIS #2
By Nick Tylwalk
Perhaps learning the lessons that almost came the hard way in the pages of Uncanny Avengers, the Avengers and the X-Men are united, ready to storm Genosha. But have they already waited too long, and are they too late to stop the plan the Red Skull is ready to put into place?
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That’s exactly the situation Marvel’s two premier super-teams find themselves in when we arrive at Avengers & X-Men: AXIS #2. Not only does the Red Skull have access to the unmatched psychic abilities of the late Professor X, he’s got one heck of a hole card: a secret that stretched back to Civil War, one that will completely turn the life of Tony Stark, a.k.a. Iron Man, upside down.
There’s also the not so small matter of Magneto, who is poised to turn his back on the heroes and fall back into evil. With everything aligned against them, even a combined force of heroes might not be enough to stop the Red Supremacy — or at least that’s what writer Rick Remender and artist Adam Kubert want us to think.
To get everyone set for this explosive second issue, we’ve got a first look at some of the interior pages and variant covers by Kris Anka and Mahmud Asrar. There’s also a special video down at the bottom entitled “Avengers & X-Men: AXIS – The Story So Far” that sets the table for this Marvel event by showing the highlights from previous stories that brought the Marvel Universe to this point.
It’s all good prep work for Avengers & X-Men: AXIS #2, which goes on sale in stores and on digital on October 15.