Dark Avengers Vol. 1: Assemble

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Collects Wolverine #104-105; Cable #32-36; Uncanny X-Men #333-337; X-Force #55, #57-58; X-Man #15-19; X-Men (vol. 2) #53-57, Annual ’96; X-Men Unlimited #11; Onslaught: X-Men, Marvel Universe, Epilogue; Avengers #401-402; Fantastic Four #415; Incredible Hulk #444-445; X-Factor #125-126; Amazing Spider-Man #415; Green Goblin #12; Spider-Man #72; Iron Man #332; Punisher #11; Thor #502; X-Men: Road to Onslaught #1; material from Excalibur #100, Fantastic Four #416.

However, there are other heroes too, like Ares, Sentinel, Marvel Boy, and Daken (making his first appearance in the larger Marvel Universe). Sentinel probably gets the best attention of these, but then he was a character heavily used by Bendis before, being viewed now through a very different lens. Daken seems to be the one character who really gets short shrift: he's barely here, and you wonder why Bendis included him on the team. Collects Avengers Standoff: Welcome to Pleasant Hill #1, Avengers Standoff: Assault on Pleasant Hill Alpha #1, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (2016) #3-4, Uncanny Avengers (2015) #7-8, All-New, All-Different Avengers #7-8, New Avengers (2015) #8-10, Captain America: Sam Wilson #7-8, Illuminati (2015) #6, Howling Commandos of S.H.I.E.L.D. (2015) #6, Avengers Standoff: Assault on Pleasant Hill Omega #1. Collects Heroes Reborn: The Return #1-4; Heroes Reborn: Doomsday, Ashema, Masters Of Evil, Rebel, Remnants, Young Allies And Doom. Collects West Coast Avengers (2018) #1-4, Young Avengers Presents #6, and Gwenpool The Unbelievable #1.On a side note, Dark Avengers was published before the Marvel Cinematic Universe properly took off: it'd be interesting to see how much those movies have changed the idea of the default Avengers line-up. The Sentry in particular now feels like an artefact of the time.) Following the events of Secret Invasion, Norman Osborn is given control of SHIELD...including Avengers tower and everything in it. His first decision is to make a new organization HAMMER and he follows it up by creating his own Avengers. Only two of the current Avengers wish to join Osborn, so he gets creative when filling his ranks.

After eight years, Brian Michael Bendis ended his run on Avengers and New Avengers in 2012 with the “ End Times” arc. He wrote multiple series, miniseries, and events to create one big superhero story. After Secret Wars, the Marvel Universe was rebooted, a combination of the 616 Universe and 1610 Ultimate Universe. A new Avengers title (vol. 6) – aka All-New, All-Different Avengers– was launched in 2015. It was written by Mark Waid, with artwork by Mahmud Asrar and Adam Kubert. This time, Iron Man forms a new team of Avengers with the Vision, Nova (Sam Alexander), Ms. Marvel, Spider-Man (Miles Morales), Captain America (Sam Wilson), and Thor (Jane Foster). Also, Al Ewing started to write New Avengers. Once Civil War concluded, the Avengers were not the same. In fact, there were two Avenger teams: government-sanctioned Avengers (aka The Mighty Avengers) and the rebel Avengers (aka New Avengers).

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Creative Teams Probably Need Be Rotated Every 70-80 issues: that's how long Gaiman ran on Sandman, Robinson ran on Starman, it's when Clairmont lost control of his previously tightly plotted X-Men, longer than Simonson's run on Thor... There's a point at which the writer has to being things to a close, and let there be some distance between their work and the next creative teams spin. With the 55 issues on the main book, 12 issues of Forever and 3 of Avengers Two and Busiak's at 70 issues and has said all he has to say.