[Greenskar]

well trebleshot,

here's some of the things that are off in this book: Tony is spouting about Cosmic stuff being above them. Avengers have dealt with Cosmic stuff countless times in the past.

Then there is a comment about how they barely know what Thanos is? You're team has fought the dude several dozen times. They have detailed files on him in their database for crying out loud.

Hulk is being written as the savage Hulk with Hulk Speak even though he isn't speaking like that at all anymore in his current book and hasn't been for a while. Then Bendis wanted to show a romance with Hawkeye and and Widow completey ignoring her relationship with Bucky and Hawkeye's with Spider-Woman.

Then there is the inauguration of Avengers Tower in issue #1. That tells you it is before Children Crusade, (where cap took Wiccan to the Tower after Wiccan made the criminals unconscious,) and after Fear Itself, where the Tower was destroyed, and Cap said they were rebuilding it. So CC is after Avengers Assembled.

And that's not even including the blatant disregard of how the hell GotG and Thanos are there.

So to answer your question, given the presentation of this book it intends to be a part of 616 continuity without adhering to the statusquo's of the characters as they are supposed to be at this point in the timeline that this story takes place in. But that's Bendis, sometimes. His take can sometimes be that, "well I haven't written them doing this before, so it must not have happened the way I want to tell it" type of logic, IMO. That's how I felt about his recent Avenger's title at least before Assembled started.