Overall and honestly, not impressed.

I even debated on  not putting a spoiler alert cover up the rest of the post, the book is so uninspiring.

One, just last week the New Avengers title was nothing but Norman Osborn putting together a new Dark Avengers team.  So why not, a week later, have the original idea of Steve Rogers putting together his team issue?!

The team is put together for no good reason and with such little story.  Its just absurd.  Steve Rogers and Tony Stark decide they need familiar faces on the team, so they go to Black Panther.  He says no.  Somehow this leads to Storm being on the team.  Storm!  Who has never been an Avenger, nor teamed with any of these people before.  Nope.  Just throw Storm on the team for the hell of it.

So its Captain America, Iron Man, Red Hulk (who has been in the Avengers books lately, so, fine) and Storm.  Add in Hawkeye.  And Spider Woman.  All alpha characters who have led teams.  Sure, all of these people could coexist on the same team!  No, no they couldn’t.  I understand wanting a lot of high profile names and conflict between team members.  But there is no way these people could all be on a team.

But that’s not the whole team!

Turns out Tony has been rebuilding the Vision off panel for awhile.  He just happened to turn on last week!  Oh the timing.  Does anyone else feel this is setting up a villain (probably Ultron) a little too simple?  Quake joins the team.  Who the hell is Quake you say?  She’s one of Nick Fury’s pet projects and has been seen in Secret War, Secret Warriors and the like.  She is reffered to as agent Daisy Johnson throughout the book and then out of no where as Quake.  I get it but the average reader should not have to struggle like this to make sense of a comic.

Who the hell is the Protector?!

Oh its Noh-Varr. Or whatever.  The current version of Captain Marvel.  I understand after Secret Invasion that the Kree would want to have a warrior on Earth to protect against their long standing nemesis, the Skrulls.  But fuckin’ A.  This guy has only been around a few years and his story is already more convoluted than Hawkman.

Norman Osborn shows up at the end of the book, and hopefully that means plenty of beat ’em ups in the next issue.  But damn this one was a drag.