Officially, Uncanny Avengers qualifies as an Avengers book. It features a new team sanctioned and spearheaded by Captain America and a familiar Avengers foe lurking in the shadows. But in practice, the new series reads much more like an X-Men book. The conflict is squarely centered on the resurgent mutant hysteria, and the characters who feel most vital to the book are all mutants. So while Uncanny Avengers might not be the place to turn to read about the latest and greatest conflicts facing Earth's Mightiest Heroes, it offers an intense, character-focused look at the mutant community in turmoil.
Issue #2 picks up right where the first left off. A reborn Red Skull is now in possession of the late Charles Xavier's brain, and he's wasting no time in using it to create all sorts of mischief. Much of the early pages focus on Skull and his minions as they fuel the fires of anti-mutant panic and add to the body count begun last month. There's nothing terribly new about reading an X-Men book full of ordinary humans panicking and lashing out against mutants, other than the fact that this hasn't been the general state of things for the past decade.
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