A typically well-written if a little underwhelming entry from Bendis. He seems real caught up on Parker Robbins (AKA The Hood). I've never been that thrilled with The Hood as a bad guy. He's got a mildly interesting backstory (a normal street criminal who was granted the massive magical power of Dormammu in Bendis's original New Avengers run), but once he was defeated at the end of that comic I was pretty happy to see him go. Well, I guess Bendis just couldn't let it end, because he brought him back, this time as a madman hell-bent on acquiring all the Infinity Gems and ruling the universe. The story itself was fine, with some pretty solid action scenes and a character-driven appearance by the Red Hulk, but the whole time I was just like "Really? The Hood AGAIN?" 
 The one thing I will say, is this is the last dangling thread from Illuminati miniseries Bendis wrote years ago. When he introduced that the Illuminati were hiding the Infinity Gems, I knew that was too big of a deal to simply let slide. I'm glad he finally tied it up here, forcing the Illuminati out of the shadows and giving Tony Stark a much-needed scolding. No matter what you say about Bendis, it's pretty rare for him to leave things unanswered. 
 The main problem with Bendis's Avengers (as opposed to New Avengers) so far is how many characters are in there. New Avengers still focuses on a pretty small team in the scheme of things, and is heavily character driven. Avengers, though, is just this massive pile-on of characters all fighting enormous battles. I think every single Avenger is in this book. There's even a scene where they put "a small team together" to go investigate something, and then in the next panel there are like 20 of them standing in a tiny cave. I laughed out loud. Let's cut a few of these guys out, please? I never once saw a need for Moon Knight to be there, for instance, but there he was. 
 In any case, Bendis rarely writes anything "bad." This is about as close as it comes. It's still a thoroughly entertaining comic, but could just use a little dose of whatever it is Bendis originally captured (and seems to continue to capture) with New Avengers.