Brian Michael Bendis seemingly ended the Avengers as a super team back in 2004 with his Avengers: Disassembled storyline which promptly led to about 73 different titles starting up in place of the old one. Somewhere after Young Avengers, New Avengers, The Mighty Avengers and Dark Avengers I started losing count and worried that it was a matter of days before we got Geriatric Avengers and The Avengers: Iceland. So it's kind of fitting that Bendis is the one bringing back a version somewhat close to the classic Avengers line-up.* 
 *And I'm sure that big budget movie coming out in 2012 with Iron Man, Captain America, Thor etc. had absolutely nothing to do with it. 
 Steve Rogers is running superhero related matters these days, and he's been forming Avengers team to help him manage things. This one is the closest thing to a classic Avengers line-up that we've seen in a while with Iron Man, Thor, Hawkeye and the replacement Captain America on the team. Plus they threw in Spider-Man and Wolverine for sales purposes and Spider-Woman because.... Well, I'm not really sure about that one. Maybe because Wasp is dead and Black Widow is already on the Secret Avengers and they needed a woman who looks good when drawn in skintight outfits? That's my best guess. 
 No sooner is the team formed than they get a visit from old Avenger's enemy and evil time traveler Kang. But Kang isn't on the attack. Instead he pulls a Doc Brown and warns the Avengers that their kids are ruining the future. Soon enough time itself seems to be breaking down and while some of the team stay behind to try and deal with the chaos, some of the others go to the future and learn some disturbing things about their fates. 
 There's a lot of fun stuff in including some good banter and crazy action. I also liked that there's still a lot of tension brewing between Steve Rogers and Tony Stark over that little civil war they had that led to Steve getting killed for a while. The overall time travel story was kind of a rehashed version of the X-Men classic Days of Future Past and a lot of it seemed more like set-up for a future event than a story concerned with relaunching the title. (Beware the upcoming crossover!). Plus, I am not a fan of John Romitia Jr.'s art. All of his characters are so blocky that they always remind me of Legos. 
 Still it was good having a version of the Avengers close to the one I grew up with back in action, and I'll check out more of the title.