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Avengers: The Initiative by Christos N. Gage and many others.
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Overview: The Initiative, a plan to train and police super heroes across America. Each state will have their own team. Some will graduate. Some will washout. And, yes, some WILL die! It all starts here, in the Initiative's biggest story to date! And with the clock ticking on the first class of recruits, get ready to meet the next batch! Including new Marvels, old Marvels, at least one SKRULL, and...THE IRREDEEMABLE GIANT-MAN? Also, with the Gauntlet out of commission, just wait until you meet Camp Hammond's new Drill Instructor... he's a real Taskmaster!

The first issue of Avengers: The Initiative was released on 4 April 2007. The tagline initially used in solicitations was "Marvel's Army of Super Heroes just became a Super Hero Army".
The series was originally solicited as a six issue limited series, but prior to the publication of the first issue, Marvel announced that this had changed and that Avengers: The Initiative would become an ongoing series, the third regularly published 'Avengers' title from 2007 onwards, after The New Avengers and The Mighty Avengers.
Issues #20-22 dealt with Dark Reign, the aftermath to Secret Invasion, and Christos Gage moved to full writing duties.
The series was canceled after Avengers: The Initiative #35 (April 2010), at the conclusion of the Siege storyline and replaced by Avengers Academy.

Genre: Comics, Superhero, Completed.

Avengers: The Initiative

Andrew Hennessey, Victor Olazaba, Roger Bonet, Rebecca Buchman inker
Christos N. Gage, Dan Slott writer
Joe Caramagna, Chris Eliopoulos letterer
Mark Brooks, Matteo De Longis, Rafa Sandoval, David Yardin cover
Steve Uy artist, colorist
Christina Strain colorist, cover
David Yardin penciler, inker, cover
Dan Buckley journalist
Alan Fine production
Matt Milla, Luca Malisan, Edgar Delgado, Daniele Rudoni, BIT, Jay David Ramos colorist
Stefano Caselli, Harvey Tolibao, Steve Kurth, Humberto Ramos, Jorge Molina, Mahmud A. Asrar penciler
Jeanine Schaefer, Joe Quesada, Tom Brevoort, Rachel Pinnelas, Bill Rosemann, Stefano Caselli, Molly Lazer editor
Published by Marvel, 2007-2010.


Avengers: The Initiative was a comic book series from Marvel Comics. Written by Dan Slott and Christos Gage with artwork initially by Stefano Caselli, Steve Uy and Harvey Tolibao,[1][2] the series dealt with the aftermath of Marvel's Civil War crossover (It should not be confused with "The Initiative", a banner running across Marvel books from February 2007 to May 2007, similar to Marvel's earlier Decimation banner after the House of M event, or the Civil War: The Initiative special by Brian Michael Bendis). A preview of the title was shown in Civil War: The Initiative.

This series is also collected in trade paperbacks:

Basic Training (#1-6)
Killed in Action (#7-13, Annual #1)
Secret Invasion (#14-19)
Disassembled (#20-25, Avengers: The Initiative feat. Reptil)
Dreams and a Nightmare (#26-31)
Siege (#31-35)

Great Potential, Reviewed by The Outsider on April 6, 2007.

The potential for this series is limitless. With the end of Civil War, comes the 50 State Initiative. 50 teams for 50 states. First all these superheroes need to be registered and trained right? Well that's were this first issue starts. Will the entire series be centered on training these heroes? Who knows. You could have one story arc that centers on the training camp... another that centers on the team that's in Ohio... another on the team in California... and so on... and back to the training camp for all I know. This series should never run out of characters, or situations and it's a great place to test out a new character, or revamp an old one.

I wasn't sure how Dan Slott was going to pull off the first issue here, although not stellar, he did a fine job. The cast includes mostly new characters mixed in with little known ones. I was happy to see Hank Pym and War Machine among the staff at the training facility... the character of The Gauntlet however came of as a stereotypical drill instructor that you've see in boot camp movies over a 100 times before. There isn't anything to like about this character, and he isn't even a good character to hate.

The recruits that the story centers on are mostly new. I found myself liking some of them even though their intro is kept to a bare minimum. Other characters came off as very plain, but there's barely enough time to spend on a single character with the multitude of super powered beings that are introduced in this issue, including the ones we already know. Future characterization on some of these new faces could change everything.

If this first issue is any indication, we can expect anything to happen in this series. There are no team rosters unveiled here, but instead we see people trying to get on to teams, and not all of them are going to make it. This first issue really peaked my curiosity for where this series is headed, even though it didn't blow me away. I think it would be worth checking out for most people since it shows potential to be very different from all the other Marvel team books.

Download Instructions:
The Initiative 01 Happy Accidents
The Initiative 02 Hero Moment
The Initiative 03 Bug Hunt
The Initiative 04 Green Zone
The Initiative 05 Secret Weapons
The Initiative 06 Persons of Interest
The Initiative 07 Triple Threat
The Initiative 08 SNAFU
The Initiative 09 First Casualties
The Initiative 10 Confirmed Kills
The Initiative 11 Worst Case Scenario
The Initiative 12 Changing of the Guard
The Initiative 13 Washout

The Initiative Annual (2008)

The Initiative 14 We Have Met the Enemy, and They Are Us!
The Initiative 15 The Only Good Skrull
The Initiative 16 Skrull-$%#@ers!
The Initiative 17 Home Field Advantage
The Initiative 18 Don't Shoot 'Til You See The Green Of Their Eyes!
The Initiative 19 V-S Day
The Initiative 20 Acceptable Losses
The Initiative 21 Disassembled: Part 1
The Initiative 22 Disassembled, Part 2
The Initiative 23 Disassembled, Part 3
The Initiative 24 Disassembled, Part 4
The Initiative 25 Disassembled: Conclusion
The Initiative 26 Up Is Down
The Initiative 27 Even The Losers
The Initiative 28 Uprising
The Initiative 29 Nightmares
The Initiative 30 Walking Nightmare
The Initiative 31 Poisoned Chalice
The Initiative 32 Seize The Day
The Initiative 33 The Hammer Falls, Part 1
The Initiative 34 The Hammer Falls, Part 2
The Initiative 35 The Hammer Falls, Conclusion

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