Onto the issue at hand: No Skrulls revealed in this issue. A lot of thought bubbles come out (seemingly as Bendis is trying to hide who may or may not be a Skrull by the massive amounts of thought bubbles). Instead of the lengthy monologue detailing what he plans to do the team, Doom only thinks it while throwing insults at Ms. Marvel (COW!) and the rest of these Mighty Avengers.

Is it just me, or do these Avengers not seem so Mighty? Someone is always getting captured or beaten down (especially Iron Man) and if it wasn't for Ares and Sentry, this team would be a joke. Iron Man is yet again stranded in time and almost blown up, losing all power to his costume. If not for Sentry using his POWER OF A MILLION EXPLODING SUNS to revive Iron Man, he would have died. Again.

If not for Ares breaking free of the chains he was bound by and attacking Doom's goons, the entire team would have been felled by the more powerful Doom (don't forget possible Skrull Spider-Woman using a massive amount of energy she's never had before. Is she a skrull? Is Wasp a skrull? Who? Who?). Then, once more, if not for the Sentry nearly ripping Doom to pieces, he would time platform jumped out of there again, making this a never-ending struggle.

There are a lot of holes in the storytelling of this issue. Bendis has made Iron Man mightily stupid over the last 11 issues of this book. It's like Warren Ellis made him this futurist super-genius and the rest of the Marvel writing staff has been kicking him in the nuts since that happened and putting the dunce cap on his head. I can only hope Fraction makes the Invincible Iron Man a super-genius again, someone to be reckoned with (unless he's a Skrull, then the stupidity might work, but the actions he's taken throughout the last few storylines would leave a more bitter taste in my mouth as they would be completely retconned). Other than that, Sentry is being used as a Macguffin, a Deus Ex Machina every time he appears. And the character was created for something more than that (I am probably the biggest Sentry fan you may ever find). He was created as a Superman archetype that was broken. Confused. A Superman with feet of clay, just like all the best Marvel characters. And Bendis is just using the character to stop every international threat thrown at these Mighty Avengers. Why not just make the book only about the Sentry and send him off on missions to find these evils?

Last but not least: what happened to the Atlanteans who took up with Doom at the end of Sub-Mariner's mini-series Revolution that just recently ended? They are nowhere to be seen, and you'd think a universal power player like Namor would be heard from if an international incident were occurring over his head. Right? Unless he's a skrull.

Overall, this book seemed to lose its steam once the Symbiote storyline began. I can only hope that the Skrullmania doesn't ruin the rest of what could be an awesome series, once the kinks are fixed.