Norman Osborne finally does something about the Shadow Initiative this issue. Actually, it's because of the Bengals wife. She's upset because she realizes the hopelessness of their situation. They were sent over there by SHIELD to retrieve Hardball. However, in the process of their mission, SHIELD has been disbanded. So she wants to know, who's going to retrieve her husband? She pleads to Gauntlet to find out what's going on, so he goes to Norman Osborn directly to ask him what he's doing about it. Oh yeah, by the way, here's my submission for the HAMMER acronym this month, Heavy Armament Mobile Military Enforcement Regiment. I took it a little more seriously than I did last month. Anyways, long story short, Constrictor sends out a signal and Ant-Man and HAMMER show up to pull their fat out of the fire. However, a couple of things happen . . Typhoid Mary, or Mutant Zero, goes all schizophrenic on them and then bails when it doesn't look like they have any chance of escaping from HYDRA. When HAMMER does show up, and things start to go south for HYDRA, Scorpion reveals to Hardball that she's only there to try to bring HYDRA down. Somebodies paid her to do it, but we don't know who. Anyways, the point is, she knows that he still has feelings for Komodo, so she lets him know that she's planning on bailing and now is his best chance if he wants to save her. In the end, after everyone has come back and been debriefed, Norman offers Taskmaster a new position, " . . how would you like to run the Initiative?" I'm not sure how much life this book still has left in it, but . . I really like this one. Especially now that Humberto Ramos has come on board as the penciller. I love his stuff. But before that, I really came to like, and care about all of these characters. I think this is a great ensemble, and it'd be a real shame to have it all go away . . or be dismantled by Norman Osborn. It is listed through issue #27 though, so . . maybe we'll make it to 30?
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