High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Avengers: The Initiative was a comic book series from Marvel Comics. Written by Dan Slott and Christos Gage with artwork initially by Stefano Caselli, Steve Uy and Harvey Tolibao, the series dealt with the aftermath of Marvel`s Civil War crossover (It should not be confused with "The Initiative", a banner running across Marvel books from February 2007 to May 2007, similar to Marvel`s earlier Decimation banner after the House of M event, or the Civil War: The Initiative special by Brian Michael Bendis). A preview of the title was shown in Civil War: The Initiative.