My friend Hillary already wrote a more cohesive feminist review of this book, here's a list of my favorite things about ESSENTIAL AVENGERS, Vol 3.

1. The Black Knight is not only in this book, but is literally princess-carried by T'Challa, the Black Panther and Prince of Wakanda
 2. Hawkeye's endless nicknames and obviously big heart for his team. I much, much, much preferred Hawkeye's Pym nicknames (High Pockets, Man-Mountain etc).
3. Steve!!! Just constantly!!! Thinking about Bucky!!!! Like there is a whole issue where Steve has the team go back in time to observe Bucky's demise with him. Just to confirm...Bucky's death and I... *clutches heart*
4. Stan Lee and the creative team's narration
5. The one issue where there's approximately 58137208 references and quotes from Hamlet
6. T'Challa. Just... T'Challa. Constantly bringing it. 
7. The fact that no one ever just stands like a normal person: they're either posing or doing ridiculous fighty, flippy stuff. There is no in-between.

Big things I didn't like:
1. Hawkeye calls T'Challa "Blackie" which COULD be construed as a reference to Black Panther, but it's icky.
2. Wasp, the Black Widow, and Scarlet Witch being so underused and constant references to weak=feminine
3. The Vision somehow counting towards diversity when he's obviously??? A white dude???? Literally every Avenger is a blonde or brunette white man except Black Panther and Wasp. I was kind of hoping for more diversity from a Stan Lee headed comic after reading THE DEATH OF CAPTAIN AMERICA, where diversity is a big point.

BUT! I mostly liked it and would be interested in picking up more. In the meanwhile, Avengers Assemble!

Hillary's review: https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/2de16953-be93-4281-a913-1473b408f554