Secret Avengers #1-4 (2010)

I like this comic but at the same time I was kind of hoping that with the fall of Norman Osborn we could have just one Avengers team, with the heroes acting cohesively and strategically to deploy team members and keep the world safe. But we are where we are. And we kinda get part of that here. After Osborn’s Dark Reign, the President assigns former Captain America, now Captain Steve Rogers, the responsibility of forming a new covert ops team. Sort of like the Avengers version of X-Force, only without the license to kill. In these early issues, Captain Steve Rogers leads a team of Beast, Moon Knight, Valkyrie, War Machine, Beast, Ant-Man, and his own girlfriend Agent 13. They take stop Roxxon Corporation from getting its hands on a Serpent Crown variant. It’s called the “Thorned Crown,” but for simplicity’s sake I’m tagging it as Serpent Crown. There are actually a bunch of variants, all with unique names, that are being sought by Nick Fury’s “Shadow Council,” Roxxon, and The Secret Avengers. Max Fury Oh, and also Nova. In that picture, above, Moon Knight has a space suit. That’s a thing now. I do like this comic, but I really don’t like what happens to Moon Knight every time he joi...