New Avengers Vol. 2

Again Brian Michael Bendis has established to very completely different Avengers books; New Avengers is definitely the more interesting read of the two.  This story sees Luke Cage & company settling into being Avengers while living in Avengers Mansion.  Luke Cage & Jessica Jones hire a nanny for their baby & after interviewing several potential candidates settle on Squirrel Girl who apparently has some type of backstory with Logan that is both interesting & creepy.  Finally the New Avengers set out on their first mission seeking out the remaining members of H.A.M.M.E.R. before they can set up shop again.  The resulting chaos leads to the mortal wounding of Mockingbird & the double agent reveal of Victoria Hand.  The main villain in this is a D-List character named Superia that is so obscure that Ms. Marvel even states that she has never heard of her.  There is another story that weaves in an out of this one that shows the first team of Avengers a secret team before the classic Iron Man, Thor & Captain America pairing to stop Loki.  This team was put in motion during the late 1950's & consist of Silver Sable, Ulysses Bloodstone, Sabretooth, Kraven the Hunter, Namora, Dominic Fortune, Dum Dum Dugan, & Nick Fury.  Its a cross between the Howling Commandos & the Avengers they are teaming up to take one someone claiming to be the Red Skull who has set up shop in Sweden.  This team of Avengers storms the castle to take down the Nazis who are calling themselves the Fourth Reich.  They come across an abomination that these Nazis have created their own Captain America in mixing the Super Soldier Serum with the Infinity Formula.  Sabretooth beheads the Red Skull at the end of the the mission so it is pretty evident that this was not the real Red Skull.  Nick Fury shows up in the present once the Avengers take down Superia to retrieve this formula.  Fury reveals that the Infinity Formula is what has been keeping him alive all of these years.  It turns out that the only way to save Mockingbird is to inject her with this hybrid formula that the Nazi Captain America was created with.  The big reveal at the end is that as soon as Superia is put in jail a card is slipped under her door a stylized goblin head, leaving the question who is Victoria Hand really working for?  Next up for the Avengers & the Marvel Universe as a whole is the Fear Itself event.  During that event many of the Marvel heroes go through their own mini-events Spider-Man will have to deal with Spider-Island.  While the X-Men will have to deal with Schism all in all changes are coming to the Marvel Universe.