Avengers: The Initiative #35: Review

This issue only gives glimpses into the events in Siege #4. A more complete summary of that issue is:- As Void attacks the Avengers Loki realises things are going too far and takes the power of the Norn Stones away from Hood and his gang and gives it to the heroes. Void realises what has happened and kills Loki, destroying the Norn Stones and their power. Iron Man sends the empty HAMMER helicarrier crashing down on Void. Osborn tries to escape but Volstagg stops him. Void has reverted to Bob Reynolds who tells them to kill him before Void returns. Thor kills him with lightning bolts as he's turning, and the Watchtower disappears from atop Avengers Tower. Thor drops the body in the Sun. Many villains are arrested included Osborn and Victoria Hand. Steve Rogers gives his shield back to Bucky Barnes, telling him to continue as Captain America.

This is not the end of Siege #4, but the rest belongs more to the aftermath of the event, which I will summarise in Dark Avengers #16.

There are a few other tie-ins to this part of Siege #4:-

The 1st half of New Avengers #64 is flashbacks to before Siege began. But the rest is Hood and Madame Masque's view of the events, with more details of their escape from Asgard. The issue ends with Masque persuading powerless Hood that he can recover from this. Which leads directly into NAv: Finale 1-shot.

Most of Siege: Embedded #4 is the events from the viewpoint of Ben Urich and Volstagg. The rest will be part of the aftermath.

Most of Thunderbolts #143 was within Siege #3. There's only a little bit  of it here, but there are some epilogues for the aftermath.
The other part of the crossover is only represented by the very end of Mighty Avengers #36 where Wasp joins the rest of the MAv for a heroic charge.

Although I'll use DAv#16 to cover the aftermath, a flashback in the issue fits here. It covers the arrest of villains at the end, but includes a failed escape attempt by Bullseye and Moonstone. Daken avoids capture and escapes by killing a US soldier and using his uniform as a disguise.

This is the end of the Initiative series. But the Avengers Academy is set up with its own series to train new young heroes, and some of our characters will be teachers there. We don't see much of the 50-State Initiative teams after this but in Fear Itself: Youth In Revolt Prodigy will be appointed to organise them to oppose the hammer-wielding Worthy.

Of the villains in this issue only Badd Axe has no further apps at all. Baron Von Blitschlag will only appear in flashbacks but they will be to unseen stuff. Norman Osborn was recruiting new teen heroes who will be future Academy members, and Blitzschlag will be seen in some of their origins.
But strangely heroes Bengal and Night Thrasher (Donyell Taylor) have no apps either. A new New Warriors will reform without him in a 2014 series. (But NT (Dwayne Taylor) will turn up in Contest Of Champions (2015) having been whisked through time before the moment of his death by the Collector. At least that's 1 post-Secret Wars III resurrection that got an explanation.)

Trauma has only had 1 non-flashback app so far, a cameo in Iron Man #600 as part of Leonardo Da Vinci's organisation.
Gauntlet has a tale in Afghanistan in Age Of Heroes #2 and then has to wait years to become Baintronics head of security in Tony Stark: Iron Man #2.
Hood's wife and child will see him in Illuminati (2016) #7 and then fade into obscurity again.

Ringer will be in Secret Avengers v1 #29 and v2 #2, then nothing.
Man-Killer shows up in Amazing X-Men #16-17 (2014) and Thunderbolts (2016) #10,12 so far.
Scorcher will be more visible, next in Amazing Spider-Man #668-669 and most recently in ASM(2018)#6-7.

Hood will escape from the Raft before Academy #8 where some of the students go after him for what he did to Tigra in New Av #35. Then he'll get the Infinity Gems in Av(2010)#7-12. In Av#9 he'll use the Gems to remove Madame Masque's facial scars, but then they'll part ways. Her following app will be Moon Knight (2011) #10-11.

Taskmaster and Constrictor won't stay together. But TM will stay in Japan for a story in AGEOH#3 but return to the US for his secret origin in his 2nd 4-issue mini-series. Then he'll meet possibly is daughter Finesse in Academy #9 before wandering off for many other adventures including the above-mentioned SecAv #29.
Constrictor won't be seen for a while. He'll turn up with TM in SecAv #29. Diamondback won't take up Steve Rogers' offer of the job of running the Initiative. She will be equally invisible for a time until she resurfaces in Captain America (2011) #11-14. (CA: Sam Wilson #5 will reveal that Constrictor and Diamondback eventually get back together again but Frank dies of an illness.)

Some of our chars will be in the Academy series from the beginning. Justice and Tigra with Wasp (Henry Pym) will rescue Reptil from HAMMER scientists in an Enter The Heroic Age tale, and he'll go on to be an Academy student. Steve Rogers will invite J&T to be teachers there in Av#1 (and Pym to be the headmaster). Before taking up the post Justice will meet with old flame Firestar for a 3-part story within I Am An Avenger #2-4 (plus Speedball (ex-Penance) and some other friends in #2) and then as part of general Avengers get-together in the Ant-Man part of #4. The Justice, Tigra and Speedball will start work in Academy #1.
Later Ultragirl is interviewed in NAv(2010)#7 (alongside Tigra among others) for the post of nanny to Luke Cage and Jessica Jones' daughter Danielle, and then visits her boyfriend Justice in Academy #5. We see Tigra's child William Nelson again in Academy #7-8. And Batwing, Butterball, Hardball and Komodo join the 4 heroes for the school Prom in #13.
After that more of our cast pile in for Fear Itself. Justice will sit it out. Speedball and Tigra will be in the FI: Home Front mini. The other 5 will be gathered by Prodigy in the FI: Youth In Revolt mini. He will involve Cloud 9 who gave up superheroing and her costume in a tale in Age Of Heroes #4. Debrii, Rage, Scarlet Spider and Slapstick will also answer the call.
All the chars mentioned in this last section will go on to have more apps, except FI:YIR is the last hurrah for Debrii and Scarlet Spider.

I'll also mention here that Loki will of course be resurrected as Kid Loki in Thor #617.