[thumb:27:l]“Civil War” is over and the Marvel Universe is already feeling the effect with “The Initiative” in full swing and super teams popping up all over the country in every state.

But even with all those teams there is still a need for The Avengers. Iron Man meets up with Ms. Marvel, Carol Danvers, to ask her - it’s really more like telling her - that she is gonna lead the team and they are gonna pick it.

So fourteen minutes after the team has been officially formed they are called away to stop an attack from the Mole Man on Manhattan. While all this is going on disasters continue to occur all over the planet, ranging from hurricanes to volcanic eruptions to earthquakes.

Through the scenes of fighting, illustrated masterfully by Frank Cho - And forgive me, I love the way the man draws, some people don’t, but I love his damn women: They’re tough looking and all fantastically sexy and his men look equally heroic and menacing. But yes, through the fighting we are shown how each member of the team is agreed upon by Ms. Marvel and Iron Man, like Ares the God of War filling the need for the team to have “a Wolverine and a Thor” and Ms. Marvel realizing she knows someone who is a bit of both. The Sentry, Wasp, Black Widow and Wonder Man are both also added to the team.

Although, one gripe: Lose the costume for Wonder Man. It’s hideous. Keep the shades if you wanna, but go back to his gear from his series, the black costume with the red W. It was simple and easy; the leisure suit with the gold arm bands just doesn’t cut it. And can he fly still? At times it seems obvious he can’t and other times it seems like he might be.

The story is light in tone with its characters, ’cause after all, these people are professionals and have handled much worse. But it’s still full of action and suspense from wondering what’s going to happen next, as evident from the last page, when it looks like these Mighty Avengers may already be squaring off with one of the Avengers’ more fearsome villains sooner then we could imagine.

I look forward to Bendis and Cho’s work on the series and hope to see bigger developments in issue 2, as the plot unfolds.

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