Well, to my knowledge the running Avengers series are going to be Avengers, Secret Avengers, New Avengers, and Avengers Academy. Avengers is the main team, secret is the covert-ops team, I'm not sure what the New Avengers role will be, and Avengers Academy is the replacement for the Initiative. Seems to be about as many Avengers books as always. They make new ones, but the old ones drop out.
Avengers Academy seems the most worthless to me, but I don't really like the teen hero junk. I certainly agree they shouldn't have made new heroes for it... but if they just used existing teen heroes it would be a lot like Young Allies, which is another good argument for why its a pointless book. They should have just taken the idea behind Avengers Academy and applied it with Young Allies. They are training the next Avengers, and what team already exists that is like the next Avengers. There you go.
As for the Secret Avengers... since they don't have a public face, it doesn't matter much what they call the team. One could imagine since Rogers is in it and created it, that he is just fond of the Avengers name. Its great so far, no matter what they are calling it, so I'm not complaining.
No idea why they still need New Avengers. That line was basically the "real" avengers after disassembled, and as counter to the Mighty Avengers after Civil War. With the main Avengers team back, and the registration act abolished... not sure where that team fits in.
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