Siege Predictions

What a long weird trip it has been since Avengers: Disassembled. The House of M. Civil War. Secret Invasion. Dark Reign. Now, there may finally be some closure with Siege, which began this week. There are a few things I would like to see happen, or that I think need to happen, and here they are...

1. The Sentry must die. I am so sick of this guy. He's dangerous and looks up to Norman Osborn. Nuff said. The Sentry thinks he is so great; taking on the Hulk? Thor? Give me a break. I hope Ares kills him. Now there's a maniac I can get behind.

2. The redemption of Tony Stark. Everyone knows I hate Tony Stark; the kind of hate I usually reserve for real-world people like Dick Cheney. I even threatened to picket the Iron Man movie when it came out. This guy is pretty much to blame for everything bad that has happened in the last few years. Yet, I'm ready to forgive him because heroes persevere. I think Iron Man will come face to face with Norman's Iron Patriot alter-ego (or maybe the Green Goblin himself) and do what Spider-Man has refused to do all these years; kill Norman Osborn and accept responsibility for it. With that, the sins of the past might just be forgiven. Speaking of Spider-Man...

3. Spider-Man must be, once again, unmasked. From the ruins of Siege, surely a new age of heroes will arrive. Since the events of Civil War, it has become obvious that the Superhero Registration Act has failed it's country. Still, it can leave a legacy bigger than the temporary death of Steve Rodgers. It's time for heroes to stand up and accept responsibility for their actions. If they cannot, they should retire. The heroes are as much to blame for the paranoia as the villains. The post 9/11 world won't stand for vigilantes. Unmask Peter Parker and make him the hero he has grown up to be.

4. The return of Hope to present time. It's time that Cable's young protege, the 'mutant messiah', comes back to the 21st century. I think this could be the start of a whole new Marvel arc; the resurgence of the mutant population. What if the House of M really came true? Bring back Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch a well. Maybe the dawn of the age of Homo-superior is upon us.

Now, where's my motherfucking movie cheque?

Also, read this..

http://www.newsarama.com/comics/100106-Road-to-Siege.html

Blockbuster stuff (SPOILERS FOR THIS WEEK)...

Comics day being delayed due to the Yankee holiday, I just got today's new stuff. No New Avengers yet, which I'm looking forward to (maybe tomorrow). Ultimatum 4 is what I really want to read, but I think it is still two weeks off. It has been like two months since Ultimatum 3; Marvel really knows how to milk it. At the end of Ultimatum, the Marvel 'Ultimate' universe will come to an end. I only got into these this year. The Ultimates (this timelimes version of the Avengers) is amazing! The Ultimate Spiderman and Ultimate X-Men are also really good. I'm pretty sure in Ultimatum 4, Magneto is going to kill almost everyone. But enough about next month...

There were two big surprises for me this week. The first was Wolverine 72, the second last part Old Man Logan, which I previewed earlier. This story is insane and keeps getting cooler. The Red Skulls trophy room of superhero treasures is very neat. Wolverine Origins 36 came out too, and Wolverine goes all feral for a bit. Savage.

The other big one was X-Men Legacy 224 in which Professor X cures Rogues mind so that she no longer has anyone's old thoughts. This is sort of a full circle for this character that started about 15 years ago, so I thought that was neat too.

Green Lantern Corps

All the podcasts call this series the best one going. I have never been a big Green Lantern fan, be it Hal Jordon or anyone else, but I decided to give it a read. Great stuff! I'm just getting into the highly regarded "Sinestro Corp War" storyline and I'm hooked. I guess this series runs hand in hand with the Green Lantern title, so I got a lot more reading to go!

On a bonus note, the first dozen or so issues were written by Dave Gibbons, the artist of Alan Moore's Watchmen!

The Walking Dead

I kept hearing about this great series called The Walking Dead, but I didn't know anything about it. I got my hands on the first one and, over a weekend, read all 50 issues. I was very pleasantly surprised! It has a '28 Days' meets 'The Preacher' vibe going on. Survivors of a zombie like virus band together to try and make it through day to day. Each issue only covers a short period of time, but the action and drama are intense. In what was called the "Best Single Comic Issue of the Year" by many publications, issue #48 certainly didn't disappoint! Check it out!

The Boys

From the twisted mind of Garth Ennis comes "The Boys". Lead by The Butcher, The Boys are an elite team of violent humans who keep the superpowered people in line by any means necessary. Using a designer drug that gives you super strength, they go after 'supes' who have done wrong. This is definitely a different kind of superhero comic, along the ultra violent lines of the Ennis' Preacher series. If you like sexed up, violent carnage, then I suggest checking this out. I just finished the first 14 issues and I like what I have seen so far!

New This Week - Secret Invasion #8 (of 8)

And so ends the bizarre tales of mystery that has been Secret Invasion. Now that it is over, I really don't know what is going on or who is alive or dead. Was that the Scarlet Witch who emerged from the Skrull ship? Was it her Skrull counterpart that caused the House of M events? If Hank Pym was a Skrull, when was he replaced as one? Before Civil War? Is he responsible? What about Spider-man? Did he cause the events of One More Day or was it a Skrull? Throw in Bucky Barnes walking around dressed as Captain America and you got yourself a mass confusion. I thought that Secret Invasion was a pretty good series, although it seemed to drag on forever. Now I have to go read Civil War, Avengers: Disassembled , House of M and about forty other series to look for clues. At least Tony Stark gets the blame for everything. The end of this issue reveals a teaser for the next series; a table full of unexpected villains who are looking to control things and Norman "Green Goblin" Osborne taking over Stark's job. Things are pretty bad when I like Osborne better than Stark, but here we are!

New This Week - New Avengers #47

This is the final New Avengers/Secret Invasion tie in issue and tells the flashback story of when Jessica Jones and Luke Cage first got together. I like Marvel flashback issues; ah, the pre-civil war team ups!