This actually is turning out to be a very good book. When it first started, I really only bought it because of the whole Initiative thing. And that it was tied in to the Civil War. Or course being linked to the Avengers didn't hurt either. But, to tell you the truth, I really wasn't expecting that much out of it. To be honest, even though I never read it anywhere, I just assumed that it was just going to be a mini-series. I thought that it would just go through the motions, start setting up the state to state teams, and then some new team books would spin off out of it. But, much to my surprise, this book has had quite a few twists and turns along the way. It's become very interesting, and actually fun to read. We really kind of have 3 teams here. The first is the staff at Camp Hammond in Stamford. They're, for the most part, the actual Avengers. Or, at least, some of them. That, and Tony Stark, is the link to the rest. The second team is our group of ever expanding initiates, for lack of a better word. And they have really been coming in to their own. Most of them aren't officially on teams yet. The ones that are, are no longer in this book, because they're working out of their assigned states now. So, the ones that we see, issue to issue, are supposed to act like a team, they're supposed to jump when they're called to duty. But, they aren't actually a team, and may not even be considered accessible assets. They're really all still in training. And the third team . . . actually the one that operates below the surface and behind the big picture . . . is the "normal" humans which are overseeing and running the operation. Most of which, in some form or another, have ties to the government. Such as Henry Gyrich or Baron Von Blitzschlag. But it also includes all the techs, and scientists, and soldiers that run the camp. It is, after-all, a military base. This issue we learn some secrets about the Scarlet Spiders and MVP, Michel Van Patrick. The Spiders have to go public, because when the Baron is out on a field trip, the Vuturions come along a steal his suitcase full of gamma weapon information. But I got the feeling that Senator Voodman, who is with him at the time, is actually orchestrating the whole thing. But, I may be wrong. Anyways, the Spiders are out, and Peter Parker sees them. So of course he has to give chase. He ends up helping them beat the Vulturions and get the case back. The guys in the Spider suits decide that they're going to help our wayward hero. So they tell the media that Peter was just posing as Spider-man, so he could help them out. Their costume gives them the ability to morph, so they can look like any Spider-man costume, and even like Peter. They show this to the media, and tell them that Peter was just a pawn. This doesn't get him completely out of the woods, but, it's enough that the doubt of his identity quickly begins to spread. Good for him. When the Spiders come back to base, we find out that they're actually clones of MVP. The Baron made them, and he's named them Michael, Van and Patrick. When he grills them about what they did, they answer " . . . because, well . . . it was the right thing to do." Which leads the Baron to believe that the original MVP is maybe more perceptive and influential than his lifeless corpse would lead him to believe. As always, this program is brought to us by Dan Slott and Stefano Caselli. Both of which are also improving, issue to issue.
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