By Victor, on June 5th, 2010
The dust has cleared after the end of Seige. The bad guys have been carted off. Every one gets a chance to take a breather. Thor, Iron Man and Steve Rogers take a moment to survey the devastation and wreckage. Both Iron Man and Steve Rogers offer their help and then promptly get into an [...]
By Victor, on June 4th, 2010
Secret War….Civil War….Secret Invasion….Dark Reign….Siege….
All these story lines have lead us to this point, the opening of The Heroic Age. Norman Osbourne has been taken out of the picture. It’s up to Steve Rogers (formally Captain America) to put things back together.
The Avengers #1 replaces New Avengers and Mighty Avengers in Marvels lineup and re-installs [...]
By Victor, on May 13th, 2010
Dark Avengers #16
This is the end. Marvel’s #1 selling book is closing out with a bang. After the events of Siege #4, this last issue of Dark Avengers shows us where each of Osbourne’s team ends up. This is the Zamboni that clears the path for The Heroic Age to start.
By Victor, on May 13th, 2010
Siege: Fallen Sun
Siege has ended. The good guys won. So, we are left with clean up and putting things to rest.
Here we deal with the heroes that knew The Sentry best “burying” him and giving him a proper eulogy.
By Victor, on May 13th, 2010
Siege #4
This is the book we’ve been waiting for. Literally. Two weeks late, the end of the year long Dark Reign storyline has finally arrived. We know the story’s end. Osbourne will be dethroned, The Sentry dealt with, and our heroes on the winning side. But, as a wise man once said, it the [...]
By Victor, on February 25th, 2010
The interesting thing about the “linked” Avengers Siege titles (New Avengers, Dark Avengers, Mighty Avengers, etc.) is that instead of telling stories between the pages or issues of the main Siege mini-series as typical of the previous cross-overs, we are being shown what happened in the few hours right before Osbourne and H.A.M.M.E.R. attacked Asgard.
By Victor, on February 19th, 2010
If you haven’t been reading this storyline then, hey, your gonna be sorry.
By Victor, on October 26th, 2009
Whilst chatting with Ed, Monarch Cards and Comics, he mentioned that I had missed a few Powers trades. I picked up a few of the ones I was missing, devoured them and decided to write a review. Then I remembered I did the perfectly wonderful review on the old PHP site so…
By Victor, on September 23rd, 2009
Always with the quick primer:
Ares, Zeus’ son the God of War, joined the Avengers at Tony Stark’s request when Steve Rodgers and he re-formed the Avengers after the disassembled mess. Then, after Civil Wars and Secret Invasion, Ares stayed on the team when Norman Osbourne took overĀ ’cause like what else was he going to [...]