The New Avengers Vol. 3

This third volume of New Avengers is best read along with Civil War because there is a lot of stuff that happens in that event that pertains to this volume.  This collection covers what happens to the New Avengers team during Civil War & the The Initiative.  This is really where Luke Cage comes into his own he is the leader & everyone else is there to follow.  Everybody in this book has sided with Captain America in Civil War.  There is some back story to Tony's motivations for his side of Civil War while he is talking to Captain America but really this is about Luke Cage's team.  This book also shows how Tony Stark becomes the Director of S.H.I.E.L.D. after Maria Hill's short reign.  I don't know how much time they are saying went past between Civil War & Avengers Disassembled but it doesn't seem all that long.  I would think that the public or at least the U.N. would be wary of Stark after he had a drunk meltdown in front of them.  It just seems out of left field that he would be given the reigns of their peace keeping force.  Back to Maria Hill she was created by Brian Michael Bendis & she has been a bad-ass every time she appears on panel I really loved how she infiltrated Avengers Tower; it really is to bad that the Marvel Cinematic Universe version of her is not this awesome.  The other thing that this volume brings to the forefront is the return of Clint Barton & how he took up the mantel of Ronin.  One thing that I have noticed is that Bendis has really been seeding the paranoia & mistrust throughout his Avengers run up to this point.  I know this preparing the way for Secret Invasion & I would recommend that if you are going to catch up on Marvel events from Avengers Disassembled forward to Avengers vs. X-Men you need to be reading Bendis's Avengers run alongside it will make so much more sense.