Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes 5

Great but flawed
As I was watching this particular volume (vol. 5)I noticed some things that made no sense at all. Showing excerpts from previous episodes that hadn't occurred. Then going back to air dates on IMDB, I realized the episodes were out of sequence.
Great animation and story lines. You just need a list of air dates and then select one episode at a time in order for it to click.(make sense)

The air dates are as follow;

The Private War of Dr. Doom - Apr. 1, 2012
Alone Against A.I.M. - Apr. 8, 2012
Acts of Vengeance - Apr. 15, 2012
Welcome to the Kree Empire - Apr. 22, 2012
To Steal an Ant-Man - Apr. 29, 2012
Michael Korvac -May 6, 2012
Who Do You Trust - May 13, 2012
The Ballad of Beta Ray Bill - May 20, 2012
Nightmare in Red - May 30, 2012
Prisoner of War - May 31, 2012
Infiltration - Jun. 4, 2012
Secret Invasion - Jun. 5, 2012
Along Came a Spider... - Jun. 6, 2012
Behold... The Vision - Jun. 7,...

Can you believe they're cancelling this show?
AVENGERS: EARTH'S MIGHTIEST HEROES is pretty much the best superhero cartoon series since Cartoon Network's JUSTICE LEAGUE UNLIMITED; it's incredibly smart with having Christopher Yost as show-runner, who also was behind the surprisingly excellent (and sadly cancelled) WOLVERINE AND THE X-MEN; the character design and voice acting are all equally good.

Be wary; if you haven't seen the entirety of the first season, spoilers will follow.

Where this show really shines though is through character, which always stays very true to the comics, and also is in using the bits and pieces of the existing Marvel Universe mythology and creating great story arcs around them. This particular disc features fallout from the finale of the first season in which Captain America is revealed as a Skrull. For those who aren't uber-fans of comics like myself, the Skrulls are a race of shapeshifting aliens whose own world is gone and they believe they are destined to take control of Earth...

Volume 5: Earth's Mightiest Disappointment!
I am BEYOND disappointed with this release.

The episodes on the DVDs are not in the order they were aired, they are in the order they were produced. So if you watch them in the order they're in on the DVD, you're going to skip around a lot and be extremely confused with the plot-line. At one point, the "last time on the Avengers" segment actually SPOILED some major points for us before we realized that the episodes were out of order.

When studios release shows like this, it only tells me one thing: they don't give a crap about the show. They don't care about the fans, they're just putting some mess down on a DVD and calling it a day in an attempt to earn some money.

I was very happy that the season starts off with a cameo from the Fantastic Four. That was a nice surprise! Then we got a cameo from the Guardians of the Galaxy later on, another happy surprise.

But the jumbled up episodes completely ruined this release for me, especially since I...

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