Dropped Mighty Avengers, as soon as it changed writers. I hadn't been enjoying it for a year anyway. Of the 20-odd that Bendis did, I'd say only the first 6 or 7 issues were really effective, and now who knows what that book's even for.

Picked up Dark Avengers, not sure if I'll keep it. Watching these things get set up is interesting and there's also some value in having a book that is about little more than dishin' teh smack, but it's not the main book, and times are tight.

I will, however, give Dark Avengers credit for presenting, legitimately, the first superhero pin-up I would actually pin up. Yow.

The only thing that would have improved New Avengers #50 is a burrito to go along with it (I read it on the train this morning instead). I called it the "main book," and it is one HELL of a main book. The advertised NA vs. DA smackdown was a fake-out, and the issue tended towards the (in?)advertently porny on more than one occasion (anybody who mods comic images to go with their pegging slash fiction is gonna have a field day with the image at right), but it's still a nice big double-sized superhero team story that works like a Swiss watch, even before the guest artists get brought out for six pages of what-is-my-character-thinking. I sorta wish Bendis would crank out a Powers sooner than later, but if we gotta take some mainstream in the meantime and this is that mainstream, I got no problems. I love stories.

Bendis/Maleev Spider-Woman solo comic cannot come soon enough.