New Avengers #51

I picked this book as my pick of the week because the Peter/Jessica scene was one of the best Bendis moments since the truly creepy nine-page conversation between Norman Osborn and Bob Reynolds in last week's Dark Avengers Issue 3.  I picked it despite unbelievable terrible artwork from Billy Tan and hurried, substandard fill-in pages from Chris Bachalo, whom I usually don't mind at all.  But I picked it nonetheless, because if you read it in dim light and squint really hard and use a rather large amount of imagination, well, then you can just pretend Gaydos drew it.  God, I wish Gaydos drew it.