New 45 did nothing. Absolutely nothing. It furthered no storylines. It did nothing but touch on what the Skrull Pym and the Skrullder-Woman did during House of M. A big bunch of nothing. Sure they were sad when Skrullder-Woman didn't kill Scarlet Witch, but she did everything for them anyways. It was dumb. Cheung's artwork was good. Even though everyone's faces are the same.

Initiative still is advancing their storylines along. Ant-Man was kind of heroic by placing bombs to allow the Black Ops team to kick some ass, and being around and hanging out under Skrullder-Woman's ample bosom, but having the Shadow Initiative and the Skrull Kill Krew be the emphasis of this book works really well.

I still really want to know who Mutant Zero is (all signs point to Jean Grey, but could it really be that easy, I mean, where's Firestar these
days). I now really want to know which blonde girl in the Initiative is a Skrull (Thor-Girl, Cloud9, and Ultra-Girl are all suspects). It's tense.

And Tolibao came out strong. His artwork isn't perfect, but the whole Philip Tan/Leinil Yu vibe he's got going works. He made the Shadow
Initiative look awesome, and when characters like Trauma (Emo-Boy) and Constrictor are part of that team, it's not the easiest task.

Oh yeah, and Jocasta assisting the SKK as well as Devil-Slayer, I am totally in for next issue. This book gets better and better each time, and I have no clue how this will end. But I'll keep buying. It's the best Avengers book out there. No comment need be made about Ultimates. None at all.