Steve has the $$ of Shield & the govt behind him guys, that's how the mansion got rebuilt. Come on. Also, it's been pointed out again and again that Steve tends to prefer a human touch over technology given that he's a man of the past, so a note to Luke Cage is well within character for him instead of calling him on a cell phone. That would have gone better for Ms. Hand obviously, but I think it makes perfect sense for him to write a note. Also, since way back the Avengers have had government agents monitoring them, & it could be argued that maybe if they had one in recent years some of the awful crap that went down could have been prevented. This again is nothing new & requires just a Tiny bit of knowledge regarding the Avengers tradition.
Obviously there are some plenty clunky things in this issue & its got its problems (the biggest one CLEARLY being the shared members from the main team, which just feels cheap), but the things being picked out in this review just confuse me, & i have to wonder how many Avengers books the reviewers have read, & how closely they read this one.
Also, Victoria Hand was never "evil" & I feel like Bendis went a long way in Dark Avengers to point that out & reiterates it here again. She was like a battered spouse who thought there was a lot of good in her man. She was a Shield agent who's main plus was also her main weakness: her ambition, & she thought that if she could be around in Osborn's reign that she could keep it above board. Now she has realized how badly she compromised who she is & what she fought for & so has Steve, thus her second chance.
& as for Parker not having the swine flu...really? Remember when Spider-Man had four books & would be bleeding to death in Spectacular & out dancing with Mary Jane in Amazing? Comics always have characters in multiple places at the same time & it's sort of part of the agreement that we understand these happen at different times. Come on. That's like Comics 101, right? I hope for one that this team is just around for the first arc or so because they happen to be there for this Eye of Agamotto thing, & at the end Ben/Clint/Peter/Logan go back to their other teams & Luke puts together his peeps. Bendis loves Cage & I'd like to see him continue to write him front and center of the Avengers U. I'd give this one a 3.5 just on the sloppy-seconds members issue, but think the magical possession storyline is very cool & has much promise. I suppose we'll see.
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