“Uncanny Avengers” began in 2012 by writer Rick Remender. The premise was that the X-Men and Avengers, who’ve often had an uneasy relationship, pooled their members onto a new team: “The Avengers Unity Squad.” Making mutants into Avengers would hopefully help win them public support. Rogue was part of the team from the beginning and became more or less co-leader with Captain America.

Since 2012, “Uncanny Avengers” has been relaunched (with a reset back to issue #1) three times since. The third iteration (begun in 2015) was when Duggan took over. He’d previously written the solo “Deadpool” series, so he added Deadpool to the team line-up. The in-universe explanation was not far off from the likely editorial one; Captain America recruited Deadpool to help boost Unity Squad’s publicity (and fundraising — Deadpool merch sells like hotcakes!)

Duggan’s “Uncanny Avengers” is not a great comic; it’s primarily a showcase for the artistic talents of the then-rising stars Larraz and Stegman. Both artists excel at big, dynamic superhero action, so a team book was a good fit for them to refine their craft.

It was also published at the apex of Marvel Comics’ most baffling decisions; undermining the X-Men in favor of the Inhumans, the undercooked rehash “Civil War II,” and turning Captain America into a HYDRA sleeper agent. All of these ideas affect “Uncanny Avengers” and reading it now makes bad memories surface.

However, despite how random the Rogue/Deadpool pairing might seem, it’s actually one of the book’s strengths.