Mighty Avengers: Family Bonding Review

Finished reading Mighty Avengers: Family Bonding, continuing writer Al Ewing's series as the team deal with villains that are personal to a few of the members themselves. The book opens up with Luke Cage and his wife Jessica Jones moving to a new apartment to keep their daughter safe from any threat to the Mighty Avengers at the Gem Theatre with the help of some of their teammates. Meanwhile Falcon is on the pursuit of Kenny Driscoll who is working for Gideon Mace, the man who killed White Tiger's family. This leads to Ava allowing the Tiger God in her amulet to take control and hunt down Mace causing the rest of the team to try and stop White Tiger. After capturing White Tiger and taking her to Blue Marvel's fortress Blue Marvel gets an emergency call of a dimensional breach caused by his youngest son Max in hoping to bring his brother Kevin back from the Neutral Zone. The second story begins with Blade fighting a group of Were-rooster's who end up overwhelming him when Blade gets a little smug at the situation. Meanwhile Blue Marvel receives the news of the Watcher's death as he meets with Uatu's wife Ulana as he morns the loss of his friend, while the rest of the team are fighting a Mindless One in the middle of New York. Overall this was a great book as it explores the backgrounds of White Tiger and Blue Marvel and how it affects the Mighty Avengers in the present giving the characters more development. The character interactions are great especially when Blue Marvel is at the forefront with characters like Luke Cage, Ulana and his son Max as each of them bring a different aspect of his history. While the introduction of the characters brings some great comedic brakes the work well in parts of the book with the introduction of Blade in the second story using it the best. 8/10.