New Avengers: A.I.M.: Standoff Review

Finished reading New Avengers: A.I.M.: Standoff, writer Al Ewing continues to tell the story of the Avengers team based at A.I.M. with the current head of the former criminal organisation Roberto Da Costa gets involved within Marvel's Standoff event. The book opened with the evil version of Reed Richards from Marvel's Ultimate universe visits former White Tiger, Angela Del Toro in her prison cell with a proposition to reclaim the mantle of the one true White Tiger from her successor as the Maker gives Angel his universe's Tiger Amulet. The book continues by crossing over with the events of Standoff as A.I.M. gets a message from Rick Jones who is currently on the run from S.H.I.E.L.D. asking for help. However by the time the message reaches the New Avengers and decide to help Rick they end up having to brake him out of S.H.I.E.L.D. custody which give the American army enough motivation to declare war on A.I.M. for coursing an international incident. The last story in the book catches back up with the members of the New Avengers who left during the Standoff story of the book and beginning to wrap up their story for the series. Overall this was a great book as writer Al Ewing uses a couple of plot threads form the main Standoff story to continue the series as the Standoff part of the book is very brief but leads to some large ramifications which have been hinted at since the beginning of the series. There is an amazing amount of comedic moments from how the multiple A.I.M. agents interact with the main and supporting cast, to the fight with the Plunderer at the end of the book which is incredibly hilarious. The art is great as each art style accompanies its respective story extremely well with with the situations the characters find themselves in and how the action is set out especially with the fight between a giant mech suit at A.I.M.'s disposal and the monstrous American Kaiju looks breathtaking. 8.5/10.