Uncanny Avengers #15 (HERE BE SPOILERS!)

This issue isn't as character driven as the last one.  However, it's still exciting, since Remender lays bare the Twins' plan for the first time.

First, we discover that Eimin had foreseen Wanda's betrayal; as such, the Twins incorporated it into their plan.  When Wanda raptured Earth's mutants to the Twin's spaceship to fight them, the Twins made sure that they were actually delivered into waiting sarcophogi that'll keep them in stasis on the way to Planet X.  In other words, the Twins never needed Wanda to rapture them to Planet X; they just needed her to rapture them to the spaceship and the Twins would take them the rest of the way. Second, we learn that the Twins used Jarnbjorn to kill the Celestial in order to attract Exitar the Executioner, a Celestial executioner who decides to destroy Earth as punishment for the Celestial's murder.  With these two revelations, the Twins' plan becomes clear:  the Twins save the mutant race by taking them to Planet X and then destroy the human one for their sins against the mutant race.  (In case you missed the point, Eimin recites the Biblical story of Noah and the Ark for most of this issue.)  It also explains why Kang was forced to save the various characters from Marvel's future in last issue, since the destruction of Earth would clealry impact them negatively.

At this stage, with the totality of the Twins' plan revealed, the only real mystery is what Kang is going to do.  In previous discussions of the Celestial that Uriel killed, it was unclear if he did so as part of Kang's plan (which the Twins have somehow disrupted later) or if the murder of the Celestial was actually the thing that disrupted Kang's plan.  I'm guessing that we'll find out more in the next few issues.

In terms of character moments, as I said, this issue is light on them, but Remender did include a nice one, where Cap feels that the deaths of the Scarlet Witch and Wonder Man are on his head, since they happened since the Unity Squad was divided and that he's the reason that it was divided, because he couldn't follow Alex's leadership.  It's nice to see this moment and lays the seed of hope that the team may actually be able to continue after they (presumably) defeat the Twins.

I have to say, although I only gave this issue itself three stars, Remender is doing an amazing job telling such a tightly scripted story in a way that isn't written for the trade paperback.  I consider this story the best Avengers story since the Kang War and I can't think of higher praise than that.
*** (three of five stars)