Avengers the Initiative Vol. 1: Basic Training

Before Dan Slott joined the Spider-Man collective that retooled Amazing Spider-Man after the One More Day story-arc he also joined Bendis in telling a new tale set in the Avengers stable.  Set after the events of Civil War & tying into World War Hulk, Tony Stark as Director of S.H.I.E.L.D. has instituted a 50 state initiative to train heroes for every state.  Some of the heroes picked or created for this series have very little depth.  Cloud 9 is by far the most interesting of these characters while The Gauntlet is just a painful character to read.  I like all of the posturing & references to the survival of the New Warriors which had a short lived series that started up around this time.  The Initiative has some great instructors in Yellow Jacket, War Machine & Justice.  However there is one major character who feels really out of place in this series & that is Peter Henry Gyrich.  As a fan of the 90s X-Men cartoon I thought he was primarily an X-Men villain.  I really want to know more about M.V.P. it looked like he died but there is clearly more than meets the eye to his character.  Out of the three of Avengers titles on the shelves at this time this is clearly the least interesting.