All these episodes is written by Brian M. Bendis. The 1st arc is drawn by Mike Deodato. Alex Maleev illustrates the one-shot "Illuminati" and the episode # 26. Then Leinil Francis Yu puts Image 2 ° arc.
From a qualitative point of view, how to say ... It's very uneven.
The 1st arc, called "The Collective", serves to make its power Magneto after the events of "House Of M". This is a series of battles that grandiose and iconic style of Mike Deodato manages to make exciting, ultimately obscuring the profound emptiness of the scenario. The pretext imagined that magnetism master recovers its power is so lopsided that this editorial pirouette becomes comical.
The one-shot "Illuminati" use back-continuity by revealing that since the first "War Kree / Skrull" the greatest superheroes (the intellectual sense, fortunately that others do not know !!! ) of the planet, namely Dr. Strange, Iron Man, Professor X, Prince Namor, Mr. Fantastic and Black Bolt, meet in secret to prevent the world of the dangers that threaten it. These pages have nothing particularly transcendent and merely serve as a prologue to the two great sagas come to Marvel.
The episode No. 26 is special in every sense. First, he directed the return of the dead Hawk Eye (since it became common and trite to resurrect every superhero who just died, one will find that the authors do get tired even to explain how they did it!), then it gives us new (albeit rather vague) of the Scarlet Witch. More importantly, it is the only really good episode of this strenuous together: Bendis applies and finally book an original screenplay, poetic and intimate. Maleev produces sumptuous boards, diaphanous and captivating. Unfortunately, the result is of another ilk ...
The last arc follows the events of "Civil War". Since the Avengers were divided into two, it shows us the shadow team (resistance) living hidden and officiating between missions and attacks of the official team. Of course, the real Avengers are those of the resistance! This series of episodes, designed by Francis Yu unleashed a vulgar but is an unlikely result idiot and child adventures, the inept and silly dialogue (and that Bendis is considered a master in the field!), Each character foolishly commenting his fights ... and I understand why, at once, the editor met all its "stars" in one and the same series: This is a huge itinerant pub for the "House of Ideas" with a lot of sound and fury for nothing. A commercial range reserved for basic geeks, those who want to read continuity, connection without seeking further, first-degree bastons, action and violence. Anyway, do not try something else in there, there's nothing else ...
