First Look Inside Marvel's SIEGE #1

right on, the u-foes kick ass. they should have been in the fantastic four film, nothing against dr. doom. but the guy didn't get his powers from cosmic rays

correction: Marvel Zombies is even more repetitive... with less poorly written drama and more cornball antics. but give DC time. I'm sure they'll bring back the blackest night zombies whenever interest in their usual good writing dips.

" @Timm: gotta say, i feel like ez bake drama is more unmasking a hero to the world or blowing up a school/football stadium. A hero coming back to terrorize the living requires allot more of an understanding for said heroes, with each raised hero causing the drama to be that much more complicated. just the way i see it. "

*Groan* /facepalm
 
after reading that whole tirade, Grim actually made me hate BN even more than i did before.
 
the only thing worse than the redundancy of zombies is the dramatic speech ' getting in your head' zombies. just to be fair to DC, Necrosha is ridiculous too. 
  there's nothing i hate more than zombie superheroes or dead superheros who are resurrected as villains (often to avenge their own deaths and endanger others while doing it... ez-bake drama villain)

"  @Korg:
fair enough. But lets be real about this. If every event in the last 4 years has been at least 7 issues long, with at least 3 tie in comics you HAVE to read to understand whats going on, isnt it massively likely that this 4 issue event that is actually going to be about espionage and betrayal wont be able to cram it into 4? especially when Marvel has been the worst out of the two at keeping events within their title comics?  not bashing. im gonna enjoy siege like a mofo. just saying... "

@Korg:

" siege is 4 comics. Which means its an insanely short event with too much crammed into each issue"

I'm already more interested in Siege than I am in Blackest Night, which I read 5 issues of (and subsequently dropped).

Dear God, is Bendis's dialog awful or what? Every character "sounds" the same, talking like confused, inarticulate junior high kids. Please get him to stop interrupting people in the middle of sentences for no dramatic purpose, especially in what is effectively exposition. "Realistic" dialog with all the pauses and interruptions and word-fumbling belongs only on audio transcripts.

 I don't know why people are missing the point behind the similarities between Civil War and Siege.  The catalyst for this event was already established that it needed to be similar to Civil War.  Don't understand why people are so up in arms about it.

The fact that the incidents are similar is intentional. Loki and Osborne reference Civil War as to how they hatch their plan. I think it's a fantastic idea. the U-Foes take on Volstagg. Awesome. The Avengers books have never ever been in better hands. I also love the fact that the Chicago Bears were wiped out too. hilarious

" @Alexander Anderson said:

" @hero vs. villian said:

Oh yes, because DC's mega-events have been sooooo superior...oh wait, they've all been mediocre to poor too.   The entire mega-event uber-crossover concept is creatively bankrupt.  It's just a cheap tactic to force fans to buy as many different comics as possible. "

Yeah the Evil Dead meets DC event is much better then doing something like DR that has never been done before.... Oh... Wait. Lol I love them both, but the Marvel event is much risker and hasn't been done 400 times over. Come on, we waited all this time for .... ZOMBIES? 
 

" @hero vs. villian said:

" Well, if it isn't another Marvel piece of @#$% event they're throwing in our faces. GO BLACKEST NIGHT!!! KICK MARVEL'S ASS! "

Oh yes, because DC's mega-events have been sooooo superior...oh wait, they've all been mediocre to poor too.   The entire mega-event uber-crossover concept is creatively bankrupt.  It's just a cheap tactic to force fans to buy as many different comics as possible. "

" @Alexander Anderson: i have a feeling he's going for registration on the Asgardians. The whole problem here is that instead of trying to get clear of the blast, he deflected it into the crowd. The blast would have just killed everyone on the field and maybe him if he just took it, but instead he knocked it into the stands (those lightning strike looking things) and then possibly amplified it. So Norman's whole deal is probably that these guys are floating over our  country just as untrained as the heroes involved in the Stanford incident, except with even more power. also, i'm completely willing to bet that the UF whateer guys are invisible or something. They just did something similar in Superman, where they made it look like Supergirl and two other kryptonians killed Mon-El. in reality it was Metallo and another guy (im not saying the newer characters names so as not to confuse anyone who isnt following), but the world saw Supergirl kill Mon-El (who btw, wasnt really dead).  so i can easily see the attackers either looking like the UF-whatsits, but being different people, or them being completely invisible to technology... which is probably the only thing that survived that blast. ...cant believe im defending this.... "

" Let's face it, Volstagg has nowhere near the power to do that type of damage so quickly and too many people know it. 

Does any one think it would have been more interesting to see Norman's "Iron Patriot" take on a personality within his head?   And see it as sorta like the Id (Goblin) Ego (Norman) Super Ego (Iron Patriot)? 
 
Yeah if it this happens u heard it here first. 
 
PS Im looking forward to Siege.  And well they did wipe out the bears, who need to be put out of their misery.  Yes Im from the Chi.  And would like to see some Marvel heroes based out side of NYC.  I mean the Runaways originally were probably the best & most original Stuff Marvel did this decade, and they were outa LA.  Yes i know the X-men are in Cali to now.  Which is a good fit.  Some prep school in up state NY is so Anglo 60's 
 
 
Ok Genis- Vell was pretty amazing, So was NOH-VAR until his weak ass new costume.  Serious Black and white with Iron Man power booster things? 

I thought this looked pretty cool but I would read at least a couple of issues of a comic just about Volstagg riding around sword chopping terrorists and super villains so what do I know.

" @Alexander Anderson said:

"How many people died at Stamford?  612 wasn't it?  Well by the looks of things the body count from this incident is going to be much, much higher.  Like, in the thousands.  So could somebody please explain to me how this isn't going to completely blow up in Norman's face?  Now admittedly I'm not up to date on what's been happening in Dark Reign, but I can't imagine how rogue supers blowing up a freaking football stadium full of innocent people is going to be good for Osborn.  He's supposed to be in control, right?  The whole Civil War happened so that things like this would never happen again...and now all of a sudden we have Stamford Part 2.  You've done a heckuva job, Normie.  I understand he'll try to spin this as Asgard's sole responsibility, but he's director of HAMMER.  Asgard is ultimately his responsibility, and this is a failure of epic proportions.  I can't imagine how Loki convinced him to back this moronic scheme.  More broadly, I support this only because it might restore some semblance of stability to the Marvel Universe.  I'm full up with these bloated mega-events, each one more disorganized and cynical than the last.  A few years of nothing but normal, non-crossover comic runs would make me so damn happy right now. "

Okay first off, they blew up a football field, so ot's not in the 1000's, and this book is about strategic planning, Nroman can't just get up and attack Asgard for no reason, he had to give the the American people a reason too, and by the look of this, I don't think the American people are going to be happy about this one bit, it's all about planning.  "

Okay. Read Dark Avengers Annual and Siege: The Cabal...... I'm sold. >:(

Poor horse, way to blow up solider field marvel.

I'm just upset that this involves Asgard. It's about the only group from the main Marvel universe I still enjoy reading. I'm not a fan of these big cross-series events since I think they happen all too often. I think the quality of them needs to jump up a lot if they expect me to shell out all that money to pick up the vital titles involved.

I gotta say, the events here do look a little familiar. But for me, there's just nothing here to spark my interest. I'll probably check it out, but I personally hate cross overs that go through other comics, to me it just seems like a pathetic excuse to make people buy the other books to follow a story. So, I'll get the limited series, but that's it.

Looks interesting but I'll probably pick this up at a later time or when it goes to trade.

Let's face it, Volstagg has nowhere near the power to do that type of damage so quickly and too many people know it. If anything's going to come out of this, then the U-Foes will have to be pointed out too and another angle will be played beyond "Hey, some foreign guy happened to be around while stuff blows up". Also, I just see this as Loki manipulating Osborn (who hasn't been close to a super-genius villain at all) by destroying his credibility.

nice!!! im getting this 

"How many people died at Stamford?  612 wasn't it?  Well by the looks of things the body count from this incident is going to be much, much higher.  Like, in the thousands.  So could somebody please explain to me how this isn't going to completely blow up in Norman's face?  Now admittedly I'm not up to date on what's been happening in Dark Reign, but I can't imagine how rogue supers blowing up a freaking football stadium full of innocent people is going to be good for Osborn.  He's supposed to be in control, right?  The whole Civil War happened so that things like this would never happen again...and now all of a sudden we have Stamford Part 2.  You've done a heckuva job, Normie.  I understand he'll try to spin this as Asgard's sole responsibility, but he's director of HAMMER.  Asgard is ultimately his responsibility, and this is a failure of epic proportions.  I can't imagine how Loki convinced him to back this moronic scheme.  More broadly, I support this only because it might restore some semblance of stability to the Marvel Universe.  I'm full up with these bloated mega-events, each one more disorganized and cynical than the last.  A few years of nothing but normal, non-crossover comic runs would make me so damn happy right now. "

" Well, if it isn't another Marvel piece of @#$% event they're throwing in our faces. GO BLACKEST NIGHT!!! KICK MARVEL'S ASS! "

How many people died at Stamford?  612 wasn't it?  Well by the looks of things the body count from this incident is going to be much, much higher.  Like, in the thousands.  So could somebody please explain to me how this isn't going to completely blow up in Norman's face?  Now admittedly I'm not up to date on what's been happening in Dark Reign, but I can't imagine how rogue supers blowing up a freaking football stadium full of innocent people is going to be good for Osborn.  He's supposed to be in control, right?  The whole Civil War happened so that things like this would never happen again...and now all of a sudden we have Stamford Part 2.  You've done a heckuva job, Normie.  I understand he'll try to spin this as Asgard's sole responsibility, but he's director of HAMMER.  Asgard is ultimately his responsibility, and this is a failure of epic proportions.  I can't imagine how Loki convinced him to back this moronic scheme.
 
More broadly, I support this only because it might restore some semblance of stability to the Marvel Universe.  I'm full up with these bloated mega-events, each one more disorganized and cynical than the last.  A few years of nothing but normal, non-crossover comic runs would make me so damn happy right now.

I saw this Marvel.com at school the other day and this truthfully blew me away, and reading just this preview, I understand how this story is going to start out, and I would like to make a comment that I love the fact that it's only new people that are hating this Idea, just saying.

Loki having a sex change again?