I like this book. I really do. Of course Brian Bendis always turns in incredible stories. And of course Frank Cho does a fantastic job drawing all these characters. Especially the female ones. Meowww! But . . . I do have a couple complaints. First of all I think Brian does a fantastic job with the dialogue and interactions between the characters. However . . . all this inner dialogue that we get between conversations . . . it's a bit unnecessary, and a bit distracting. As we're reading it, most of the time the reader . . . especially the ones who really know these characters . . . can pretty much fill in the little quips and jabs that are left unsaid. Actually I think it's better that way. It leaves more to the imagination. Secondly . . . what's up with these time-lines? This book is seriously off track. The whole thing with the symbiote crisis was done and over before anything was even mentioned it this book. So they had to skim through it really fast last issue to show that it was part of their time-line. This issue they finally wrap up the whole Ultron thing. It was interesting. It was fun. But obviously, it dragged out for way to long. They probably could've wrapped up the whole thing in 3 issues. So now, at the end of this issue, we finally get the meeting between Spider-woman and Tony, when she brings him the Skrull corpse from their fight in Japan. What is this, like, 4 or 5 months later? Seriously, I think we need to get this book back on track. And it's not like over in the New Avengers they haven't been running filler stories to try to give this book time to catch up. Because they have. And this book hasn't even touched on the whole Initiative thing, and they're on issue #10. I really want this book to succeed, but, I think we need to get some things back on track, to give it a fighting chance. At this rate, people are going to get really frustrated, really fast. Please! Please! I'm begging! Please, get things together in our Avengers books! Please!
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