the New Avengers #55 - Marvel

After reading this book . . I'm really not sure how it's left me feeling. We start out with an ambush by the Hood's gang, at the Hellfire Club, on the New Avengers. Carol ends up having to get a boost from Jessica's powers so that they can get out of this mess. But the Hood's gang ends up with a piece of Stark tech. My question is, what was it even doing there in the first place? Anyways, the guy who finds it, Dr Carr, ends up taking it to Dr Jonah Harrow. He's hoping that together they can reverse engineer it and figure out just what it is. As it turns out it's a power drainer . . a genetic disruptor . . it drains the power from any genetically enhanced people in it's vicinity. Through the process of all of this, the Hood's gang has become very dissatisfied with his leadership. The 2 doctors figure that with this device, they can interest Norman Osborn into buying it, and completely by-pass Parker Robbins' attention. Meanwhile, on the Avengers side of the story, there's several interesting things going on. First of all I think Cap/Bucky is getting pretty fed up with the current living conditions and the effects this group of people is having on his home life. Also Peter seems to be getting really paranoid about people knowing his real name. He doesn't like it being brandied about like they're all best friends or something. Also he and Ronin/Hawkeye are having issues about how Clint is dealing with the whole Norman issue. Clint just wants to kill him, and also blames Peter for not having taken him down any of the times that they faced off . . back when he was the Green Goblin. "If you would have taken care of Osborn when he was the Green Goblin . . we wouldn't even be in this situation." Anyways, it all lead to them facing off with Dr Carr when he takes the device out to test it. He's in Times Square firing randomly and they come to stop him. However, when they come swooping down on him from the rooftops, they all lose their powers and come crashing to the ground. "How about that? It worked." Luckily, other than Dr Harrow I don't think anybody else knows about this test. But . . why did these guys have to be the ones to come running to the rescue? They had to have known it was a trap. I don't know. Like I said . . the whole thing just kind of felt off to me. I can't really explain why . . it just felt, muddled. Brian Bendis wrote it, and Stuart Immonen does the art. I'm not sure if either one of them are to blame. It just didn't seem like things clicked this issue. Or . . maybe it was just me. I guess we'll see what happens next issue.