Following the conclusion of last issue, Magneto and his villains
take on the Red Onslaught in Avengers
& X-Men: Axis #3. Deadpool manages to recharge Iron Man as the Scarlet
Witch uses her powers of Chaos as Doctor Doom casts his powers of order. The
aftermath sees the Avengers rescued and the Red Onslaught is defeated. The
Avengers and X-Men fight over the body of the Red Skull which could hold the
essence of Charles Xavier. Steve Rogers refuses to release the body of the Red
Skull to the X-Men which results with Havok breaking up the current version of
the Uncanny Avengers.
The first half of Amazing
Spider-Man #8 sees Spider-Man and Ms. Marvel deal with an alien threat. The
surprise comes when one of the henchmen is really Clayton Cole from Learning to Crawl series early this
year. Peter offers him a job at his company Parker Industries. The second half
of the book deals with Spider-Girl surviving against an attack as she loses
both her parents. She rescues her little brother Ben Parker as the Spider-Men
arrive to save her. She vows to kill and avenge her family. Her story will
continue is November’s Spider-Verse
event. The back of the book has a checklist of Spider-Verse and its tie-ins
making it 20 books in all.
