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Context for No Surrender & Voyager =/= Sentry
No Surrender is made to be ready to read with part 1 (Avengers #675). You can read the last 4-6 issues of Avengers, Uncanny Avengers, and USAvengers for a bit more context, but it's not required. Each issue also has an editorial page called 'The Assembly' that helps get readers up to speed and shows behind the scenes stuff on how we created No Surrender.
Mark Waid was one of the people who wrote Triumph, a DC character very much in the same mold who pre-dates Sentry - a 'forgotten' character brought back and retroactively made part of continuity. Mark, Al, and I all agreed that we wouldn't do this unless we could bring something a bit different to the mix. We're only 3 issues in (out of 16), so I know it looks very similar right now, but by the end I hope readers will agree that we did something a bit different.