Avengers: The Initiative Preview (SPOILERS)

[wessner]

A preview of the first pages of Avengers: The Initiative is available at Pop Culture Shock. The web site incorrectly calls it Civil War: The Initiative and uses the wrong cover image, but the sample pages are definitely for the Slott/Caselli project.

http://www.popcultureshock.com/index.php?p=40925

[Sam Johnson]

Wow, that's a great sequence...looking forward to it.

Is War Machine definitely Jim Rhodes?

[tom daylight]

These are scans from the latest MARVEL PREVIEWS. And on the page, this looks AWESOME!

[Dave S.]

This is going to be great. I'm really excited.

[Edward J. Cunningham]

Is there going to be ANY Iron Man fans left after Civil War is over? This is not Dan's fault---Civil War established the "new" Tony Stark like this---but I find him completely unlikable now.

[Dingo]

Cool.

This IS a good start.

BTW, that is War Machine, not Iron Man.
War Machine is Jim Rhodes.

[Dusty]

Is there going to be ANY Iron Man fans left after Civil War is over? This is not Dan's fault---Civil War established the "new" Tony Stark like this---but I find him completely unlikable now.

We are getting David Michelinie and Bob Layton Iron-Man: The End mini series, which I would imagine will run for 6 issues, so at least I'll be enjoying Iron-Man, as they'll do it right. Hopefully after that's over, Marvel will have pulled the plug on this new "version" of who Tony Stark is. They've turned him into a cold mannered person, not somebody with charm and warmth. This whole "extremis" thing needs to be done away with, too.

Speaking of Dave and Bob's Iron-Man, I have a feeling John Romita Jr. is the artist Marvel is getting for it.

I'm looking forward to Slott's new mini series. I try to support you where I can, Dan. I hope this goes over HUGE for you and the powers that be in a meeting one day have a light come on "Hey, let's put Dan Slott on a Spider-Man book."

I don't quite like that art as much as the first images that we saw, though. I like it enough, don't get me wrong, it's just not my #1 favorite type of style, as I like styles that are more realistic and traditional like Steve Epting, Alan Davis, Marc Silvestri, Dale Keown, Mike Zeck, etc... It's still nice art.

Can't wait for this!

[Dingo]

I just realised....

I know that they only mentioned the FAA and needing a licence to fly, but doesn't this count as even more of a hint that the Pro-reg side won?

[wessner]

I just realised....

I know that they only mentioned the FAA and needing a licence to fly, but doesn't this count as even more of a hint that the Pro-reg side won?

Text on the first page says this scene takes place during Civil War.

[Dingo]

Text on the first page says this scene takes place during Civil War.

It does too.