Avengers Initiative #30: Waking Nightmare
(1 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)This issue focuses on the origins of Trauma and a confrontation between Penance (Robby Baldwin a.k.a. Speedball) and his former teammates the New Warriors (who are unaware Penance is their old friend under the control of Norman Osborn).
Can the Avengers Resistance and the Initiative unite to defeat a classic Marvel villain…or would that be a Nightmare? The lord of horrific dreams has invaded the physical world…and now that the Hood is no longer empowered by Dormammu, the only chance to defeat this near-omnipotent fiend is for two rival squads of heroes and villains to join forces. But how can they fight together if they’re stabbing each other in the back? Guest-starring Tigra, Justice and Taskmaster!
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Turns out Trauma’s birth was engineered by Nightmare who had possessed the man who fathered him long enough to conceive in an origin similar to that of the Teen Titan empath known as Raven (daughter of otherdimensional demon Trigon who continually attempts to use her as some kind of gateway).
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11/29/2009 at 12:44 pm
According to my comic store, apparently I’m the only person still buying (and enjoying) this title. Too bad, too – some really nice stuff.
12/10/2009 at 10:14 am
I’ve been loving Initiative since day one, and though this issue seemed a bit out of place (magik being shoved into the world of the Initiative felt a bit out of place to me) I still had a good time. The resolution felt a bit forced, especially with Penance and Trauma just waltzing back into Camp Hammond like nothing happened, but all in all, not to shabby.
I did like the acknowledgment that the cat was actually Speedball’s cat Niels, though now I wonder how this fits in with Pet Avengers continuity…love me some P.A!