This was unfortunate. Mark Waid seems like an ideal choice to tell an untold story of Cap's Kooky Quartet's first moments. Instead he delivers a mundane and disjointed story that introduces a wildly overpowered character that is the central focus and kind of connects to the author's modern Avengers run. I'm not sure of this series' point. The Cap/Hawkeye interactions were fun though. Barry Kitson's are was very good. Overall, a golden chance to tell a story in a huge moment in history is completely wasted.

Who needs a fuckin' reboot? Simply alter some baseline background details and you can spin new stories into the cracks between the old ones. More good stuff from Waid, if a little simplistically told, one can assume that's the period making itself part of the story. Any fan of this era of the Avengers, the clunky, what-do-we-do-now version before they morphed into what would become an institution, will like this story.