Siege

[TheCorpulent1]

You know with Thor's track record, I wouldn't be surprised if he somehow lost to Taskmaster.

Cripes, you're right. I've been reading Journey into Mystery lately (my attempt to finally sit down and read every Thor comic is officially underway) and it's so depressing. He's basically the powerhouse of the Marvel universe in those comics. Hell, he even stalemated the Hulk without Mjolnir in #112. Then I think about everything (that I know of) that's happened since then...

Yeah but it's looking like the main problem with Thor NOW is the fact that he's afraid to accidentally kill someone again. Hoping that the story with Seth fixed that.

Nah, I think that was just a one-shot problem for that story. He seemed to be over it by the end of the issue.

 

[Drz]

Man the january comics look outrageous! Dark Avengers and more Dark Wolverine?! <3 Can't wait for Siege.

 

[Vartha]

Cripes, you're right. I've been reading Journey into Mystery lately (my attempt to finally sit down and read every Thor comic is officially underway) and it's so depressing. He's basically the powerhouse of the Marvel universe in those comics. Hell, he even stalemated the Hulk without Mjolnir in #112. Then I think about everything (that I know of) that's happened since then...

Nah, I think that was just a one-shot problem for that story. He seemed to be over it by the end of the issue.

Let's hope so. I'm dreading Thor's going to be stuck with some "problem" that makes him Whine like surfer did when he was stuck on earth away from Shalla-bal

 

[TheCorpulent1]

I already got sick of his whining just in that annual. Thor is not a whiner, damn it. Even Don Blake is sitting there telling him to man up!

 

[bored]

This is the first event since Civil War that I've been excited about (of course it looks like I'm not going to hate the aftermath of this one). The Big Three haven't been together in years, and this has been set up beautifully. I just wish a better writer than Bendis had gotten to work on the main title, but hey, Brubaker can't do everything.

 

[kguillou]

I would rather Brubaker didnt do big events. Brubaker's one of those writers who'd be better off just doing his own thing rather than get caught up in these big flashy company wide debacles. Then again he is doing Cap Reborn...does that count?

 

[TheCorpulent1]

That's not really an event in the sense of a big crossover with tie-ins galore. It's one mini-series that's taking the place of Captain America's ongoing purely so Marvel can charge an extra buck per issue, so effectively he's still just writing Cap's ongoing series.

 

[kguillou]

Phew, i was beginning to have my doubts lol. I stand by my statement then that Brubaker should stay away from big events.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

I don't think I've ever seen him write a big event, so I don't know how he'd do with one. He definitely works well with longer, more complex plots, though. That's something events generally don't have going for them.

 

[louiebling$]

My current buy list...

New Avengers
Dark Avengers
Mighty Avengers
Avengers: The Initiative
Spider-Woman
Secret Warriors
Thunderbolts
Uncanny X-Men
X-Men Legacy
Astonishing X-Men
X-Factor
X-Force
Cable
New Mutants
Incredible Hulk
Hulk
Son of Hulk
Nova
Guardians of the Galaxy

Along with:

The Marvels Project
Immortal Weapons
Clone Saga
Dark Reign: The List
Random Deadpool arcs

Along with any other various mini, oneshot, and various ongoings I try out or tie in with stuff I do read.

And that's just Marvel. Outside of Marvel I collect:

Batman
Batman & Robin
Green Lantern
Green Lantern Corps
Blackest Night
Project Superpowers 2
Project Superpowers: Bring on the Bad Guys
Black Terror
Echo
The End League


So all that is just too much, and the more Marvel raises their prices the less I can afford. I've already had to drop some titles to afford these and I'm so far stretched with these it isn't funny.

I've dropped:

Punisher
Deadpool (mostly)
Thor
Captain America
Wolverine



So something's gotta give. I'm reading Hulk stuff due to my liking Skaar, but that's probably going to get the axe also. I also find myself growing more and more bitter toward Marvel and finding their stuff less enjoyable due to it, so I want to just get out of a good chunk of it, read some other companies, and maybe try to get my love of the genre back up. I love certain book, but overall I'm getting frustrated and if I don't do something soon I'll most likely be giving up comics within a year or two... which I want to fight as much as possible.

Sadly I think my list is bigger lol

And I've just recently dropped some titles

 

[Keyser Soze]

I don't think I've ever seen him write a big event, so I don't know how he'd do with one. He definitely works well with longer, more complex plots, though. That's something events generally don't have going for them.

Though he worked with other people, I believe he was the primary writer of X-Men: Messiah Complex, which was kinda a big crossover event within the X-books.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Oh, right. Messiah Complex was all right until the end. Oh, Bishop. Bishop, Bishop, Bishop.

 

[runawayboulder]

Nah, it looks like runawayboulder just focused on the fact that the Avengers' big three were reuniting when he created the thread. That happens in Siege. The event itself has only ever been called Siege.

Yeah, when I first started the thread the name "Siege" had not been officially been announced. Wizard put the name Avengers Reassembled on it.

 

[Silver Knight]

What is this "Siege" someone please fill me in.

 

[Jennifer Walters]

You see when a man loves a woman....

 

[runawayboulder]

What is this "Siege" someone please fill me in.

The follow up to Dark Reign starting in January. For the first time in about 6 or 7 years the "big three" Cap (S. Rogers), Thor, and Iron Man are going to reunite on the Avengers to go against Norman Osborn and his Dark Avengers.

 

[Eros]

What is this "Siege" someone please fill me in.

first you have no idea what Dark Reign is, and many other recent events of the past couple of years. I get the impression you crawled out of some cave.

 

[Mr Jammm]

Cripes, you're right. I've been reading Journey into Mystery lately (my attempt to finally sit down and read every Thor comic is officially underway) and it's so depressing. He's basically the powerhouse of the Marvel universe in those comics. Hell, he even stalemated the Hulk without Mjolnir in #112. Then I think about everything (that I know of) that's happened since then...

He's had some bad showings down the years though ... I always thought he was a bit of a pansy during Brusieks era. He used to struggle a lot against characters who shouldn't really have a chance. For example there was the Lord Templar guy, and the Kalliback rip off with the helmet, I mean who the ... where they. Also I don't like the idea of Ultron being able to hurt Thor, he dooesn't really have the Arsenal. He's just a very Suped up version of Iron Man, he shouldn't really be hurting someone whose barely fazed by mountain crushing forces.

 

[hippie_hunter]

It looks like Avengers: The Initiative is going to be a casualty of Siege and be relaunched for the Heroic Age as Avengers Academy by Christos Gage and Mike McKone

http://www.bleedingcool.com/2009/10...s-gage-and-mike-mckone-term-starts-next-year/

 

[runawayboulder]

Where did the term Heroic Age come from?

 

[Keyser Soze]

I believe "The Heroic Age" will be to 2010 what "Dark Reign" was to 2009.

 

[runawayboulder]

Yeah I understand that. Dark Reign and Siege are the names of the events. I was curious as to where the label Heroic Age came from.

 

[Tron Bonne]

I'm kind of curious myself, was that termed by someone like Bendis at Marvel or something?

 

[TheCorpulent1]

It looks like Avengers: The Initiative is going to be a casualty of Siege and be relaunched for the Heroic Age as Avengers Academy by Christos Gage and Mike McKone

http://www.bleedingcool.com/2009/10...s-gage-and-mike-mckone-term-starts-next-year/

Should be interesting. I'm kind of curious where the drama will come from with a goody-two-shoes "Avengers Academy," though. A big part of A:TI has been behind-the-scenes intrigue under both Iron Man and Osborn.

 

[Keyser Soze]

Does anyone else think that the mysterious shadowy figure Norman Osborn is using to keep the Cabal in line could be Marvelman?

We know Marvel will be looking for a way to integrate the character into the Marvel Universe after acquiring the rights, and surely getting someone of that power level on-side would help spur Osborn to finally follow through on invading Asgard.