{"id":34276,"date":"2026-07-21T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/?p=34276"},"modified":"2025-06-18T23:30:22","modified_gmt":"2025-06-19T03:30:22","slug":"uncanny-x-men-513-dark-avengers-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2026\/07\/21\/uncanny-x-men-513-dark-avengers-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Uncanny X-Men 513\/Dark Avengers 7"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Let\u2019s speed this up, we\u2019re doing this 2 books at a time because none of this really matters to Spider-Man. The X-portions of this crossover are mercifully handed by Terry Dodson. As I said last time, it could\u2019ve been Greg Land. Can you imagine? A 4-issue crossover event between Greg Land and Mike Deodato, Jr.? A race to the bottom! And some very vocal fans would eat it up. I don\u2019t get it. Dodson is inked here by his wife Rachel, an arrangement I\u2019d forgotten about, as for years now, he inks himself and she colors. Justin Ponsor rounds out the art staff. As depicted on this cover, meet the Dark X-Men. Really. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Hard to imagine a way for Emma to be part of this that doesn\u2019t end her relationship with Scott, and yet, as I recall, it doesn\u2019t happen that way. Look how weird fake Xavier looks in panel 2! Osborn and Faxavier continue spouting conservative talking points over Cyclops doing his best impression of Captain America\u2019s escape in Civil War. Their speechifiying continues over us catching up with all the situations we left off with last issue, the various Dark Avengers and X-Men in conflict, ending with Colossus slapping Venom with a giant hunk of concrete before being whisked away from the scene by Iceman. I always liked Colossus. That\u2019s not relevant, he\u2019s just one of my favorite X-Men.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Well, that\u2019s the X-Men for you. They already HAVE a character called \u201cDark Beast,\u201d the surviving Beast from the Age of Apocalypse alternate reality. I am only just realizing the fact that he was a villain thee probably prompted the truly heinous choice to make the real Hank absolutely horrible in the X-Men\u2019s Krakoa era. Anyway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Her team will be former X-Villain Mimic, Cloak & Dagger for some reason,Weapon Omega, aka Michael Pointer from Bendis\u2019 Collective arc, and Daken as Dark Wolverine, rather hilariously on both an Avengers team and an X-Men team, just like his dad. And we learn Faxavier is in fact Mystique, doing her thing. Emma wants nothing to do with her, but Norman reveals she\u2019s essentially got a bomb in her forcing her to do what they say.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The gang\u2019s all here. 2 members of Norman\u2019s Cabal on a single X-Team. Emma unveils her team at a press conference, along with the promise of a curfew in the city for the foreseeable future. Meanwhile, Trask wakes up in the hospital, revealing he\u2019s some kinda Sentinel-man who can infect other people with nanomachines or some such and make them his servants, which he\u2019s doing to much of the hospital. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Cyclops tells everyone they have to wait and plan and see how things shake out. Later, at a mutant bar, Hellion, a bunch of other losers, and Sunspot are plotting to go cause trouble, anyway. Back at HAMMER, Emma is taken to see \u201cthe Omega Machine,\u201d which is how they\u2019re depowering the mutants (temporarily, I guess), and then Hellion and his hellions start blowing up Union Square Park, much to Cyclops\u2019 chagrin when he sees it on TV.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Thus, after a splash page of the Dark X-Men attacking the kids, obviously designed to sell the original for a lot of money\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Dark Avengers are ready made bad guys for a story like this. But in their own comic, they\u2019re sort of-kind of good guys. How does that work? Will Fraction given them the spotlight in their own series?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Tommy Lee Jones and a Poser model play with action figures! I had long forgotten Luke Ross drew this. Does he do both DA issues? Wait\u2019ll you see this, Luke Ross 2009 sure isn\u2019t the guy who did TAC back in the day. He\u2019s joined by inkers Rick Magyar and Mark Pennington, with Deodato\u2019s constant companion Rain Beredo hanging around to color. In the HAMMER prison, Beast seems to be devolving or dying, still not convinced he\u2019s mentally chatting with the real Professor X. Dark Beast and Norman are watching him, and Norman is not happy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Luke Ross just kind of hops on the trends. Realism is in, so he\u2019s into realism now. Norman has one of his pep talks with Sentry before we get back to last issue\u2019s riot. Comically, Ross apes Dodson when drawing that, after trying to get like Deodato for the Dark Avengers part. Just doin\u2019 whatever. The Dark X-Men handily defeat the small army of mutant jobbers (Emma having trained Hellion doesn\u2019t come up as she neutralizes him), and Emma has to stop Daken from killing Avalanche in a fit of temper. This distracts her enough to let Hellion get back up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Meanwhile, Cyclops jetpacks over to HAMMER, saying he comes in peace. As Norman tries to politic him, Cyclops interrupts him to simply say \u201cSurrender.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Seems unlikely! We check in on the Dark Avengers, theoretical stars of this book, as Bullseye whines that they should be fighting and he\u2019s bored, but no one wants to hear it. Ares is on his side, though. The the Dark X-Men return with their prisoners. Daken kicks a defenseless Hellion, and Emma is very upset. Norman tries to break up the brewing fight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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For all that Ross is copying 2 different artists and\/or pictures of Tommy Lee Jones, he couldn\u2019t get the face of the Iron Man helmet right? What is that? As soon as the grownups leave the room, the Dark Avengers and X-Men get into a huge fight. As Norman and Dark Beast give Emma the tour, they goof, because they don\u2019t know Xavier can project his thoughts, and he tells Emma what\u2019s happening to Hank. She demands to see Hank, and they lie and say they don\u2019t have him. Xavier tells her where to look.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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So, the Dark Avengers are, for the most part, unrepentant bad guys that Osborn, for reasons no one seems to care to articulate, is trying to force to be good guys. They make good villains for this story. Because they\u2019re villains. But it looks like we\u2019re working toward a \u201ccommon enemy\u201d situation. I don\u2019t recall, I only know the new X-status quo that spins out of this. Anyway, we\u2019ll see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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