U.S.Avengers to No Surrender / No Road Home
Al Ewing · Paco Medina · Paco Diaz · Mark Waid · Jim Zub · Saladin Ahmed · Pepe Larraz
Story era 11 · After the Multiverse
Ewing’s Sunspot-led Avengers combines character work and satire before joining ensemble events that elevate overlooked heroes and resurrect Hulk.
Setup & reading order
- Before U.S.Avengers #1
Start with the relaunch, which explains Sunspot’s repurposed A.I.M. and the Hydra backdrop in its Secret Empire chapters. After #12, continue to No Surrender.
- After Avengers #690
Read Quicksilver: No Surrender #1–5. Immortal Hulk begins after No Surrender; read its opening arc before No Road Home if interleaving the books.
- After Avengers: No Road Home #10
The Hercules/Olympus consequences later feed into Ewing’s Guardians; no full intervening Avengers run is required.
Optional context & path
Path: Avengers: No Surrender and No Road Home. Related projects that read well in this order; the order is a suggestion, not a requirement.
Useful background and earlier stops: Immortal Hulk by Al Ewing · Al Ewing’s Ultimates to Defenders cosmology.
Only required setup and earlier volumes in the same project affect the queue. Everything here is optional.
About these books · 5 sources
Publisher and reference pages describe the editions. Reviews and reader discussions offer different views of the stories.
- r/OmnibusCollectors — complete No Surrender / No Road Home review (opens in a new tab)Readers
- AIPT — Avengers: No Surrender review (opens in a new tab)Critics and editors
- AIPT — U.S.Avengers: Cannonball Run collected review (opens in a new tab)Critics and editors
- Penguin Random House — No Surrender / No Road Home (opens in a new tab)Publisher
- List of Avengers titles — collected editions (opens in a new tab)Reference
The books
U.S.Avengers by Al Ewing
Book 1 of 2 · After the Multiverse
Sunspot’s American Intelligence Mechanics team survives Secret Empire and rescues Cannonball before No Surrender.
See reading checkpoints9781302966263Planned edition#1–12Edition sources
Each ISBN identifies a specific printing and cover. “Owned copy” identifies the edition on my shelf; “Planned edition” identifies the edition listed for collecting.
Avengers: No Surrender / No Road Home Omnibus
Book 2 of 2 · After the Multiverse
The gathered Avengers face a cosmic contest before Immortal Hulk’s solo launch; the later No Road Home sequel follows the early Hulk stories.
See reading checkpoints9781302966539Planned edition#675–690#1–5#1–10Avengers #684 shares its Hulk-origin material with the Immortal Hulk Omnibus.
Edition sources
Each ISBN identifies a specific printing and cover. “Owned copy” identifies the edition on my shelf; “Planned edition” identifies the edition listed for collecting.
Duplication across this project
These books share full issues or parts of issues with other books in the plan. Open the lists below to see which stories repeat.
Show source issues
Avengers legacy numbering #684Things to know
- Quicksilver and No Road Home have more uneven reception than No Surrender.
- Avengers #684 also appears in part in Immortal Hulk. It adds background but is not required to follow that run.
- The preceding eighteen-issue New Avengers run gives Sunspot’s A.I.M. background; the 2017 relaunch also explains its own circumstances.