Quicksilver seeks help from the Avengers after an other-dimensional warlord named Arkon kidnaps Scarlet Witch. There's some sort of plot about nuclear weapons and some bad poetry, and then it all kind of goes away. Then a guy named Cornelius Van Lunt hatches a plan to bankrupt Tony Stark that involves the Avengers doing construction work. It's all very silly.

Rick Jones returns to help the team capture Scorpio, who is actually Nick Fury, and who actually doesn't need capturing. Then Black Panther gets wrapped up in some racist shtick from the Sons of the Serpent that includes a white Black Panther and a submarine shaped like a slithering snake. Yikes.

This is our special blizzard-delayed episode where Jason & John recap all the wackiness of the first 71 issues (plus 2 annuals) of The Avengers. The good (a little), the bad (most of it), and the hilarious (that's debatable). John talks a lot about the characters and the creators and the plots, while Jason cracks jokes that mostly fall flat because he forgot to take notes. It's AMAZING!

Kang kidnaps the team in order to ask them for help. See, this dude called the Grandmaster has challenged him to a cosmic game and he needs our heroes to be his pawns. So they help the guy, face off against the Squadron Sinister and the 1940's Invaders, then when all is said and done, Kang tries to kill them. Typical Kang.

SHIELD invents Adamantium and Vision promptly steals it so he can rebuild Ultron. That big, bad robot still has some influence over the synthezoid he created...and we get to hear about it for three whole issues. Lucky us.

The Avengers find out that Egghead has a laser-shooting satellite that can destroy entire cities, and also that Hawkeye...er...Goliath has a brother AND A NAME! Oh, and Swordsman comes back just so he can get beat up again.

Dr. Strange shows up and uses the team as a distraction to save the world, but leaves them stranded in Africa, so Black Panther takes them to his place where he faces off against the Man-Ape, and then they finally make it home only to see Hawkeye ditch his bow and arrows to become the new Goliath. That's a whole bunch of dumb.

Some guy named Yellowjacket shows up, claims to have killed Hank Pym,wants to join the team and, when refused, decides to kidnap Wasp. Things get even weirder when Yellowjacket and Wasp get married and the Circus of Crime shows up! 

As Jason and John continue to fight through their colds, The Avengers welcome a new member to their fold. Sure, the Vision tries to kill everyone first, but that's all Ultron's fault. Once that reckless robot is out of the way for good, I'm sure it'll be smooth sailing for our newfound synthezoid.

Cap calls the team to a castle so they can time travel back and watch Bucky die again. Obviously that doesn't go well and now the team is stuck in an alternate timeline thanks to the Scarlet Centurion. They fight themselves, then Goliath unplugs the machine and everything goes back to boring.