Should the "Uncanny Avengers" idea be given another shot?

[LordUltimus]

So the Uncanny Avengers book was marketed as X-Men and Avengers on a single team working together. The execution of that idea was... debatable. But is that idea of a fused X-Men/Avengers team still viable? How would you execute it?

[Tony Stark]

I think it should be tried again. It was for a great cause and shouldn’t be given up on after one try.

[cc008]

Duggan's volume really showed the title can flourish. Remender's seemed more like an editorial mandate because of AvX.

[JudicatorPrime]

Yes and no. I like the idea of an X-team that has non-mutants on the roster. But there's really no need for an Uncanny Avengers. There's nothing stopping any of the Avengers teams from having mutants, or being comprised entirely of mutants.

[PCN24454]

Yes and no. I like the idea of an X-team that has non-mutants on the roster. But there's really no need for an Uncanny Avengers. There's nothing stopping any of the Avengers teams from having mutants, or being comprised entirely of mutants.

I second this.

[Frontier]

How would you even justify it now? A Krakoan outreach program involving The Avengers? The X-Men don't really care much about PR right now.

[gurkle]

It would need to be a true joint venture of the two teams, like Charles Xavier and Tony Stark bankrolling it together and Scott Summers and Janet Van Dyne as co-leaders. The big conceptual problem with the original team is it was just an Avengers team with some extra mutants on it, that's all. It operated out of the Avengers mansion, was edited out of the Avengers office, had nothing to do with the X-Men except for involving some leftover stories from "Uncanny X-Force." The reason for doing a book like this should be that the X-Men and the Avengers are working together and you can't say definitively which is the star of the book.

It would need to bring back the idea that Remender raised and then dropped that this type of team is partly a PR venture: the X-Men would be in it to get a better reputation for mutants after the way they've been acting, and the Avengers would be in it to overcome their terrible image among mutants. In other words, both teams need a group like this to rehabilitate their images.

Behind the scenes it would need to be either jointly controlled by the Avengers and X-Men editors or, more realistically, have an editor who isn't involved with either office.