And with this issue . . we have the trifecta of Avengers books. All I'm missing in this run is the Dark Avengers. I really enjoy the work that Christos Gage is doing on this book. With such a large cast of characters, he somehow manages to fit them all into each and every issue. And it's great to see the New Warriors back together again. It was only a matter of time. With everything that's been going on in the Marvel Universe . . sooner or later these kids were bound to reach out for each other again. Gauntlet gathers up all the heavy hitters this issue to strike against Ragnarok. And we even see the Shadow Initiative over in Madripoor. They're getting ready to fight HYDRA, and Roger. But to me what really made this book special was Humberto Ramos' pencils. This guy is incredible. But he really hasn't done that much work of late. With all these characters, and all of this action . . I really feel like he's back in his glory here. He's got some really great pages in this book. Anyways, we find out that the New Warriors didn't really show up to help against Ragnarok. They came for a completely different reason. But, with all that was going down when they did show up . . of course they had to help. They can't just stand by and watch this android wipe out all of their one-time friends. But the real reason they came to Camp Hammond? They came to retrieve the body of Michael Van Patrick, MVP. They decided it's time to take him home and let him rest in peace. We've only got a couple of issues left on this series. That's sad. But, I'm thinking that there may be some new teams forming out of all of this. Maybe we'll get some new series, or at least some minis. I definitely think we're going to see the Shadow Initiative someplace. Although I'm sure they'll have a different name. Maybe Gauntlet will start up his own version of the Avengers. Why not? Everybody else has. But they have to do something with this great cast of characters that they've created here. There's a whole lot of potential here. It'd be a shame for it all to go to waste.
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