START READING HERE! Alpha Flight returns! Daken settles the score with his father! The Avengers Academy meets the program washouts! War Machine is rebooted as Iron Man 2.0! The X-Men battle a demonic horde! Herc is hunted by a figure from his past! Young Loki learns about his former life! X-Factor investigates a very personal mystery! Songbird hunts for the escaped Thunderbolts! Norman Osborn returns to menace the New Avengers! Plus: Who will be the new Ghost Rider? Can the Black Panther locate a killer before he strikes again? And who are the Villains for Hire?
Collecting Alpha Flight (2011) #0.1, Daken: Dark Wolverine #9.1, Avengers Academy #14.1, Ghost Rider (2011) #0.1, Iron Man 2.0 #7.1, X-Men (2010) #15.1, Herc #6.1, Journey Into Mystery (1952) #626.1, X-Factor (1986) #224.1, Villains For Hire #0.1, Thunderbolts #163.1, Black Panther: The Deadliest Man Alive #523.1 and New Avengers (2010) #16.1, with a cover by Neal Adams.
Marvel, paperback, 304 pages, published January 2012