When Tony Stark a/k/a Iron Man was acting like a total dick and appointed himself king of the super heroes, Luke Cage and others that had been part of the New Avengers went underground and fought back. Now that Marvel's Civil War and the aftermath has finally ended and the so-called Heroic Age has begun, Steve Rogers wants Luke to continue leading a team of Avengers. 
 Setting up shop in a rebuilt Avengers mansions that Stark sells to them for a dollar, Luke's new team doesn't even get through their first meeting when trouble breaks out. Dr. Strange and new Sorcerer Supreme Dr. Voodoo show up possessed by demons, and some kind of powerful entity from another dimension wants the magical Eye of Agomotto and is willing to tear our universe apart to get it. 
 I had fun with this on one level because these Avengers are a lot of superheroes I like. Luke Cage, Spider-Man, Wolverine, The Thing, Iron Fist, Ms. Marvel and Mockingbird make for an interesting team dynamic, and these characters play into Brian Michael Bendis's main strength of witty dialogue. There's some great interactions like Spider-Man freaking out after Wolverine claws someone or Ben Grimm giving Ms. Marvel grief in the middle of a mass demon invasion because she's never seen Ghostbusters. 
 It's a solid line-up of cool characters with a good writer and artist, and it's got an interesting niche to fill in the Marvel Universe. 
 Unfortunately, what I don't like is that Marvel has spread some of it's most popular heroes like Wolverine and Spider-Man far too thin. Wolvie is on so many teams, I can't keep track of them all. Spider-Man is on two Avenger squads as well as multiple books. The Thing is on the Fantastic Four. This trend has been getting worse, and it's really starting to bug me because it shows a lack of faith in the fans and the creators working on the books. I would read a book about Avengers led by Luke Cage and written by Bendis with almost any line-up. 
 Instead of cramming the most popular guys into books over and over, how about developing some of the lesser known heroes? Wolverine wasn't always Wolverine. He used to just be that surly asshole on the X-Men until Chris Claremont made him into something more. No other minor characters are getting that chance anymore. 
 It undercuts the whole reason why Cage is running a separate team in the story, too. After the Civil War, he doesn't want to toe a government line or work closely with Stark so Steve arranges it so that he's operating on his own with only a loose affiliation with the other Avengers, but that doesn't really work if some of your guys are also on those other teams. 
 Plus, there's no consistent internal logic. Steve Rogers tells Luke that he can't have Iron Man or Thor because they're on another team, but doesn't care that Wolverine or Spider-Man have dual membership. Mockingbird's husband is Hawkeye who is a member of the Iron Man/Thor/Wolverine/Spider-Man Avengers, but won't join this group and leaves in the middle of this book because the other team issues a priority call, yet Wolverine and Spider-Man don't get summoned? Ben Grimm has got enough time outside the Fantastic Four to do this gig? But whenever it's brought up in any book, everyone just cracks jokes about busy schedules or having a multi-tasking superpower. Weak. 
 And yes, I'm well aware that I'm complaining about logistical issues in a comic book universe that contains superheroes, magic, aliens, mutants, time travel, alternate dimensions and a tropical zone in Antarctica where dinosaurs still exist. That's the nature of a fan boy. We'll buy the wildest stuff imaginable, if you can put a thin veneer of reality over it. Skimp on that, and we'll start pointing out every crack. 
 So the whole thing about a group of superheroes fighting a bunch of inter-dimensional magic demons with the future of the world at stake was great, but I really wish Marvel would trust it's readers and creators enough to put out some more team books without feeling the need to shoehorn their most popular and established characters into them.