Oh look, the next issue is apparently the last!  Well then, I guess I won’t get too worked up over anything that happens in this series… particularly since it seems its sole purpose was to continue the ill-conceived storyline of confirming that Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch are not and never have been mutants, much less related to that Magneto guy!  And in this issue, yeah, the High Evolutionary basically just shrugs and says, “I took you from your parents, made my alterations, then, upon my disappointment, returned you to their care, disguised as common mutants,” and then goes on about his business with a couple more jabs about what disappointments they are.  Yup, guess it just never came up before now, during one of the dozen times they’ve all encountered each other in the past!  (Et tu, Bova?)  And did I mention their “sister,” Luminous, the High Evolutionary’s creation who’s faster than Quicksilver and more chaos-magically-adept than Scarlet Witch?  Can you not see how much this is adding to their characters?  

Otherwise, as far as the rest of the team… the first volume of Uncanny Avengers focused on a “Unity” team of both X-Men and Avengers, which I thought was a fun idea that never quite had a chance to take off.  With only a couple appearances outside their title series, they never felt like The Avengers, just… some Avengers.  And once the Apocalypse Twins showed up and plummeted the entire series into chronal dams and mutant raptures and alternate timelines and undead Horsemen and a Celestial executioner literally blowing up the planet Earth, it all just felt like so much “What If?” fodder; for the whole “Planet X” story arc, I couldn’t help but feel like nothing I was reading mattered, because sooner or later our heroes would reset reality, the characters who’d been killed would be resurrected, and we’d get back to storylines that “counted.”  (And then AXIS happened and, well… time makes fools of us all.)  Then Rogue had the brilliant idea to start a new Unity squad alongside the Scarlet Witch, conveniently forgetting that roughly one hundred percent of the threats faced by the Uncanny Avengers could be traced back to the Scarlet Witch one way or another.  So this series also features Sam Wilson as Captain America, Vision, inexplicably-resurrected Rick-Remender-pet-favorite Doctor Voodoo, and good-guy Uncle Sabretooth, who joined the Avengers between issues (and, as revealed in The Rage of Ultron, is kept locked inside a cell in Avengers Tower when not on-mission… “Can’t be too careful!” declare our heroes!).   But in this issue, even Rogue seems mildly frustrated at this series, referring to her “stopgap Unity squad.  And we’re scattered.  As usual.”  Before we even get to see this team of Avengers interact as a team — arguably the entire point of an Avengers series — they’re immediately separated across Counter Earth; some encounter worse perils than the others, as while the High Evolutionary dispassionately removes Sabretooth’s nervous system whole and intact from his living body, Rogue basically gets tied to a chair by a mad scientist straight out of Labyrinth, and Captain America… gets turned into a tree-person.  Hoo-boy.  So, yeah… maybe a five-issue run for this series isn’t something to lament.