I'm really not enjoying this series as much as I thought I would. The characters, with the possible exception of Hawkeye, are all a bit emo for my tastes, and that's weird given that the series came out long before emo was a thing. Everyone's struggling with whether or not they're suited to being Avengers, and, honestly, in issue 3, it's been a bit much.
At least we get a good, scene-chewing villain like Graviton this time around.
West Coast Avengers does something interesting in this issue, though, that's a bit of a rarity in limited series such as this one. It makes reference to events happening in the greater Marvel U in a way that involves it in the shared narrative in a way that few limited series are. I think the impetus for this isolation must be that if the series is unsuccessful, it's easier to disavow and retcon if there were no explicit links to the main continuity. But because it stars some relatively big names, and because Jim Rhodes is appearing as Iron Man in the eponymous title, it's hard to be telling a story that separates them from the rest of the Marvel Universe, especially as the Vision and Hawkeye have been setting this team up for a while now in the pages of the regular series.
Maybe it's the team itself. I'm just getting the feeling of Avengers-lite, though with Graviton leading the charge now, issue 4 promises to be a bit more...feisty. To be continued.
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