Gage details 'Avengers: The Initiative'

Writer Christos Gage has revealed how his current project Avengers: The Initiative will tie in with Marvel Comics's 'Siege' event.

According to the scribe, the current arc finds members of the Avengers Resistance preparing a strike against Norman Osborn. Elsewhere, the Taskmaster leads an invasion on Thor's realm of Asgard.

"There'll be two major fronts: Asgard, where Taskmaster, Constrictor, Diamondback and other Initiative teams are in the thick of the action, and Camp HAMMER, which the Avengers Resistance makes a last-ditch attack on to take it down once and for all while its forces are split," Gage told CBR.

"It's almost all a war story but with different fronts, with the siege of Asgard representing the front lines' all-out war, and Camp HAMMER more of a Where Eagles Dare-type of mission."

The events unfold in issue #31 in January. It has been rumoured that the title will cease after the events of 'Siege', but Gage confirmed that he will continue to write an Avengers book after the dust has settled.

"Regardless of the outcome of 'Siege', I'll be writing an Avengers book, and there's some really exciting stuff coming up that I am bursting to talk about but have to keep under my hat just a bit longer," he added.

"Believe me, it's harder for me than you."