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Your Early Signs Of Axis, In Yesterday's Marvel Comics (UPDATE)

Updated with an Axis promo image just sent out by Marvel…

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Spoilers for Uncanny Avengers and Adjectiveless Avengers ahead…

So we are looking for telltale signs of the upcoming Axis event to come in yesterday's comic books. And these two titles seem to have some. First, we have comment upon the disfigurement of Havok in Uncanny Avengers.

It's worth remembering that, only recently, it was standard to make sure that the bad guys were disfigured in some way. With Axis flipping the morality of certain characters, could this me an early reference to that kind of treatment?

Not obvious enough?

Well, we see the Red Skull looking at the some of the Axis line-up with clear intent…

And over at Avengers, which is probably over half way through my favourite run on the book to date, courtesy of Mister Hickman… the last page sets out how we are to perceive the Illuminati from this point.

Which looks like that's the flipping of morality in one handy package.

And next month, as DC goes Five Years Later, Marvel just skips forward Eight Months…

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