Immediately after finishing Civil War, I started with Mighty Avengers V1 in which Iron Man and Ms. Marvel put together a new team. I continued on to this volume before starting the next Crossover event, Secret Invasion. This book might as well have been subtitled “The Return of Nick Fury” as he, and the creation of the Secret Warriors, takes up the majority of the pages. Fury has been MIA since Secret War but here he comes back with a vengeance.

The book opens with a two page scene from Secret War to catch readers up on why Fury disappeared. Then the story jumps from his present location where he’s fully aware of the Skrull invasion and begins to put together a new team composed of very young heroes that no one but he knows about. These sections were so well done that I plan to read the Secret Warriors omnibus as soon as I finish Secret Invasion! Amidst Fury’s work, the book also has several sections showing how and when the Skrulls replaced various superheroes and their plans for dealing with those they can't replace, like Sentry. Some of this can be challenging to follow, but is worth reading before the main event with the exception of the last small section - it has major spoilers for the event.

My only major disappointment throughout the Mighty Avengers volumes is the Sentry. I've never liked the character anyway, as he seems a wannabe substitute for Thor. And, he’s also so powerful that the only way to take him out of a battle (or prevent him from single-handedly ending the Invasion all by himself) is for him to go a little nuts and run away – which got real old real fast. He spends most of the Invasion crying & whining in space somewhere.

Overall, even though very little of this volume was actually of the Mighty Avengers, it was an excellent tie-in to Secret Invasion. Highly recommended. ( )