Jason Aaron actually wraps up a couple of storylines with the Winter Guard and Defenders of the Deep in his run-up to his 50th issue of the latest Avengers series. But don't worry, the Squadron Supreme and vampires are still running around and a new group of super villains is introduced, ready to cause trouble for the foreseeable future -- or should that be "past" due to all the time travel going on?

If Toys 'R Us were still around, they'd be happy with all the variant action figures they could sell thanks to Aaron constantly throwing out new versions of Ghost Rider, Iron Fist, Green Goblin, Winter Soldier, Black Widow, etc. with silly little tweaks to their code names.

Oh, it seems I missed a Heroes Reborn crossover event between last volume and this, but it didn't seem to effect much or cause me any confusion when I just went ahead and read this without reading that. But I will look around for it soon. I think I saw it on Hoopla. ( )