—Ant-ManAnd that's where being a race of warriors works against you--you assume we're all brave. Didn't count on a weaselly, ant-size coward sitting out the fight, did ya? Oh man...good thing my mask protects me from her pheromones. It's all I can do not to climb those twin peaks and settle in for winter...Focus, dude. Remember she's a lizard. A lizard with luscious, firm, ripe...
Appearing in "Home Field Advantage"
Featured Characters:
- Initiative
- Shadow Initiative
- Cadets
- Point Men
- Desert Stars
- Staff
- Heavy Hitters (First appearance)
- Gravity (Greg Willis)
- Hardball (Roger Brokeridge)
- Nonstop (First appearance)
- Telemetry (First appearance)
- Mavericks
- Called (Utah Initiative) (Mentioned) (Name revealed)
- Skrull Kill Krew
Supporting Characters:
Antagonists:
- Skrull Empire
- Skrull Armada
- Spider-Woman (Veranke)
- Yellowjacket (Criti Noll)
- Dum-Dum Dugan Skrull
- Unnamed Heavy Hitters Skrull infiltrator (Corpse, skeleton or other remains)
- Unnamed Called infiltrator (Death) (Mentioned)
Other Characters:
- Mrs. Green
- Gauntlet's daughter
- Bengal's wife
- Minh Tranh
- Other children
- Young Avengers (Cameo)
- Wiccan (Billy Kaplan) (Cameo)
- Vision (Jonas) (Cameo)
- Hawkeye (Kate Bishop) (Cameo)
- Patriot (Eli Bradley) (Cameo)
- S.H.I.E.L.D.
- Cape-Killers
- Clay Quartermain (Mentioned)
- Val Defontaine (Mentioned)
- Dum-Dum Dugan (Mentioned)
- S.W.O.R.D. (Mentioned)
- Avengers (Mentioned)
- Fantastic Four (Mentioned)
- Brad Pitt (Mentioned) (Topical Reference)
- Angelina Jolie (Mentioned) (Topical Reference)
Locations:
- United States of America
- Camp Hammond
- Camp Hammond Day Care Center
- Infirmary
- Constrictor's Quarters
- The Zero Room, Mutant Zero's Quarters
- Main Courtyard
- Sewer system
- Skrull War Room
- Nevada
- New Mexico
- The Chandlers' bomb shelter
- Mavericks Headquarters
- Nick Fury's Safehouse
- Utah
- Hawaii (Appears on screen)
- Camp Hammond
- Earth Orbit (Mentioned)
- S.W.O.R.D.'s orbital station (Mentioned)
Items:
- Original 3-D Man Googles
- Shadow Cloak
- Patriot's Uniform (Cameo)
Events:
- World War II (Mentioned)
Synopsis for "Home Field Advantage"
- Synopsis not yet written
Solicit Synopsis
SECRET INVASION TIE-IN
NEW CLUES TO MUTANT ZERO'S IDENTITY AND AN AVENGER RETURNS! Camp Hammond has been overrun, not just by the occupying Skrull army, but by the SKRULL QUEEN herself! Well guess that? That's just what the SHADOW INITIATIVE wanted! Join MUTANT ZERO, TRAUMA, BENGAL, CONSTRICTOR, and ANT-MAN as they try this war's most dangerous mission: to take out the SKRULL SPIDER-WOMAN! That IS why you stayed behind, right ANT-MAN? Also: As 3-D MAN and the KILL KREW carve a green, bloody swath across America, their numbers continue to grow. And in this issue, a classic AVENGER signs up - and joins the AVENGERS: INITIATIVE ongoing cast!