By: Brian Michael Bendis (writer), Walter Simonson (pencils), Scott Hanna (inks), Jason Keith (colors), and Cory Petit (letters)
The Story: The Avengers hunt down Rachel Summers in an attempt to neutralize the X-Men’s telepathic advantage.
The Review: The main Avengers title has been frustrating me for a while now. Despite being what should be Marvel’s flagship book and being helmed by a fantastic, generations-spanning creative team, the book has been flailing, seemingly without any meaningful direction. This led to a frustrating arc where Bendis and Simonson did an inexplicable re-tread of a story that was already being told in Secret Avengers. Sadly, this month continues that trend, this time with Jason Aaron’s Wolverine and the X-Men in its sights. For reasons unknown, Marvel decided that it would be a good idea to have Bendis retcon a random issue of Wolverine and the X-Men, and not even particularly good one at that, that came out June.
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