Axis suena la Qué Buena...

Rick Remender reveló más detalles sobre su evento de 9 partes que inicia en Octubre, AXIS (que hará  historia por ser el primer evento sin Wolverine en décadas). Específicamente, habló sobre el segundo acto, titulado Inversion.

En él, los personajes involucrados (héroes y villanos) sufrirán un cambio en sus brújulas morales, lo cual invertirá sus roles respectivos, aunque los personajes se mantendrán esencialmente iguales (???).

"Inverting the characters shows you the antithesis of what they normally are, which shines a light on their character,"

Uno de los afectados será Iron Man, cuya inversión lo llevará a ser básicamente el Tony Stark pre-accidente/epifanía, osea, un borrachote mujeriego que sin duda enamorará al Caragrillo.

"Flipping his alignment turns him back into who he was, which shows the growth the character has had since his first appearance," said Remender, noting that the Inverted Tony will find " an interesting new use for a consumer version of Extremis, which will make Tony quite rich.

                         

El editor de la serie, Tom Brevoort, habló sobre dos de los tie-ins anunciados hasta ahora: las miniseries Hobgoblin y Carnage.

In terms of how the tie-ins will play into the "Inversion" effect, Brevoort said editor Nick Lowe had been driving himself "batty" talking about the "Carnage" and "Hobgoblin" miniseries because it features the Inverted versions of the characters. "This will be a morally upstanding Carnage and a Hobgoblin who is perhaps a good businessman rather than a bad businessman," said Brevoort. "It gives you a totally different Hobgoblin and a totally different Carnage to do a story about as part of this. This will be different than any Hobgoblin or Carnage project you've seen up until now -- for good or for ill."

Remender también dice que Apocalypse regresará dentro de la serie, siguiendo, y culminando, tramas iniciadas en Uncanny X-Force, y que continuaron en Uncanny Avengers.

"At a certain point, I didn't even know this would be an event," Remender said of "AXIS." "As it built and the X-Men had a larger role, the Apocalypse beat blossomed into something really wonderful that I think people are going to have a lot of fun with."

                          

También habló de la cosa horrenda que se ve en la parte inferior de esa portada. Dijo que es básicamente el lado aún más salvaje de Bruce Banner. Lo que pasa cuando hacen enojar a Hulk, llamado...Kluh.

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"The blackest, darkest, most evil thing, the thing that was born of the abuse of Bruce Banner as a child -- it's the Hulk's Hulk," 

Otros personajes que tendrán un papel importante en el segundo acto son Scarlet Witch, el Doctor Doom (y la relación entre ambos también será explorada), y Luke Cage. Este último formará parte de un equipo llamado Axis Of Evil, que PROBABLEMENTE será malvado.

Además, Remender promete una nueva serie suya al concluir el evento, que se encargará de resolver algunos aspectos que quedarán inconclusos. Una promesa bastante cínica, pero no sorpresiva hoy en día.

'AXIS' will lead to a whole new book that I'm writing that will have a number of characters who are very changed from the story. I don't want to give anything away, but the Inversion isn't going to be completely wrapped up. There's not going to be a perfect bow on this story by the end of things. It'll be a nice conclusion to the immediate threat, but there will be some very interesting aspects of the Inversion moving forward into new stories in the Marvel Universe in a handful of titles."

Por último, una pequeña luz de esperanza. Ahora que Wolverine al fin fue llamado a la banca por un tiempo, dejando la posición de Hombre-Animal-Antiheroico libre, ¿será que aprovecharán la tronada de reversa de Sabretooth para ocuparla? De ser así,  ¿Le kagará más, menos o exactamente igual al abueli, we?

For "Inversion," the inverted characters will still remember everything about their past -- it's just that something has flipped inside of them. "In a broad sense, if you're Sabretooth, you're no longer going to kill someone to achieve your goals, you're going to save someone to take the hit. He's still the same person, but his moral alignment is giving him different information. His character is now aligned in a different way. He's not capable of killing -- at least he's not capable of killing the way he used to. Imagine if you're an amoral sociopath and you wake up with a conscience and a moral compass."

Vía: CBR