All New All Different Avengers #7

Written by Mark Waid

Pencils by Adam Kubert

Cover by Alex Ross

Published Mar 23, 2016

   The story opens with Sam Wilson, aka Falcon, aka Captain America talking with Jane/Thor about her cancer diagnosis and how he will keep her treatments of it a secret. It then cuts away to reveal Vision apologizing to Kamala, aka Ms Marvel, for his recent behavior to her - and offering a viewer to watch all the Avengers' legendary adventures as a makeup present which she gladly accepts. We're then pulled away to witness a fight the Avengers are in with an old foe - Night Phantom, who asks repeatedly why he was in Pleasant Hill. This prompts SHIELD director Maria Hill to tell the Avengers it is none of their concern, which is of course something they won't accept. Through much discovery, it 's revealed that the Avengers need to get to Pleasant Hill, Connecticut to get to the bottom of it.

   As their flying in the SHIELD quinjet, they arrive and see the Avengers Unity Team with ANOTHER Maria Hill, whom the Maria Hill flying the aircraft tries to subsequently blow away. After a brief dustup, the 2 Avengers teams realize it's suddenly snowing as well as a glass wall trapping them, and they use all of the powers at their disposal to attempt to break out of. As the panels zoom out however, it reveals them to be fighting in a miniaturized snow globe, being held by a child.  

   The epilogue shows a different reality with Tony Stark working in a garage with his apprentice Miles Morales, whom feigns a headache as his spider sense presumably goes off...

   One of the things I love about a crossover is when the book only relies on the minimal amount of issues of other titles to work a story. This particular segment of the Avengers Standoff Storyline involves one other book which is turning out to be pretty good, Uncanny Avengers. And I really enjoy what writer Mark Waid is doing here. Maybe not enough to go read the actual Standoff books itself, but I'll entertain a crossover in a book or two. I give it an 8/10.

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