U.S.Avengers: Cannonball Run Review

Finished reading U.S.Avengers: Cannonball Run, writer Al Ewing brings an end to the series as the team find themselves dealing with the events of Secret Empire with them being scattered across the world. The book opens with the U.S.Avengers in Washington DC fighting the oncoming Hydra forces which includes the teams own Red Hulk as Maverick is being controlled by Hydra thanks to them injecting him with nanites. With the battle lost Toni Ho decides to hack into Enigma's suit to teleport her and Squirrel Girl away from being captured by Hydra which leads the two finding themselves in France where they meet a group of heroes based in Europe who are trying stop stop the Hydra forces in Paris. Meanwhile Toni finds herself as a prisoner of Hydra as she soon discovers that her cell mate is a severely wounded Roberto Da Costa. The next part of the book sees the team dealing with the aftermath of Secret Empire as Roberto meets with Senator Kevin Krask about the current state of the world since the Hydra takeover of America and the Senator trying to get A.I.M. to work for the American government. With this being against Roberto's original deal with general Maverick, he quits as the leader of A.I.M. leading to Krask to lose his temper before Smasher comes to Roberto asking for his help in finding her boyfriend Cannonball who has been taking to a planet of Glenbrook that looks like a classic American town, this leads to Roberto calling the U.S.Avengers together to find their lost teammate. Overall this was a good book as it sends the U.S.Avengers in the middle of the Secret Empire event as by show a different aspect to the event with how Hydra is trying to expand across the world along with a look as how they treat their prisoners who oppose them. The book does a good jobs in giving a nice amount of character intrigue within the European heroes and the world of Glenbrook, while the book also gives Toni a great amount of development thanks to the what that the situation she finds herself in with Roberto parallels that of her father's and Tony Stark's when they first met. The art throughout is great as the art team is able to bring each of the character interactions to life extremely well by the way the characters able emote along with the different character and location designs that works with the books story. 7/10.