What do you think could have happened? Did the cover spoil the story for you?

kinda new it was going to happen any way

Yeah I agree with you here and it seemed like it was happening a lot with Siege...all of the tie in issues were basically the same events from the main book just seen from other perspectives and some of those books came out before the main issues so we had a good idea of what was going to happen before it did
 
If something is happening in one book we shouldn't be seeing the after affects of that event before the event happens and if that main book is delayed for whatever reason then the books that take place afterwards should be pushed back to....Sentry Fallen Son shouldn't have came out the same week as Siege #4 it should have came out this week

~Yeah I see your point Infer' 
but  feel a little different

No I don't think writers a deliberately spoiling stories but Marvel management and editorial should get their house in order. The should delay one comic or speed up another if there's going to be a conflict of interests

I agree, that issue should of come out this week.....or never at all... it was awful

Its not exclusive to Marvel either.  Several issues of Cry for Justice spoiled some elements of Blackest Night, though not nearly to the blatant level as what is happening with Siege.
 
I get the feeling that publishers are trying to maintain such a high event-related tempo, and of course the associated sales, that they're willing to risk spoilers in order to cram as many high-profile books together in a row as possible.

I was more shocked with Loki

I have to give my LCS a lot of credit.  They recognized how big of a spoiler Fallen Sun's cover was, so they put all of the issues on the stand in the little black sleeves you might find porn/explicit stuff normally in and just put the title on with a sharpie.

you would think such a huge company would have a slightly better marketting stratergy in terms of selling arcs and not giving away the ending and potential damaging sales

" I was more shocked with Loki "

" I agree, that issue should of come out this week.....or never at all... it was awful "

To much is placed on spoilers, I look at the various story arcs that they try to run concurrent as more of the journey and not the destination. Its like a road trip, you know where you are going, its how you get there and what you see that makes the trip really worth while.

that's what happens when marvel has made the comic book industry so convoluted

What you described in your observation is exactly what happened to me. Browsing the comic books and what do I see? Sentry : Fallen Son. 
 
Before that happened I was really really REALLY hoping that they could somehow spare the Sentry and kill the void. So much for that.

I could be wrong, but I remember "Siege" #4 getting delayed. That would, at least, answer why these books were released together.

Sentry's death is something that I already saw coming, and death is not a permanent satus in comics now.  
I agree with the feelin but spoiling Sentry's death is not a big deal, he comes back every time, another thing would've been if they had spoiled the other death in Siege 4, which by the way is not permanent either but it is interesting.

Well obviously Sentry was going to die. In Iron Man's words, "It had to be done."

I honestly thought the story would have focused around Sentry's fall from grace in the hero community. He's been manipulated by Osborn, the void, his wife has been killed because of him, all these bad things happened because he couldn't control his own abilities, and now no one trusts him. Marvel's been making a habit to juice up their stories with tag lines like "Oh, someone dies, blah blah blah" and quite frankly, I enjoyed that it brought more weight to the stories, but now it's just old. I thought that they would at least have Bob do something different. He had the potential to do so many different things. Hell, could you imagine him in the cosmic realm, fighting with guys like the Silver Surfer against Thanos, etc.?

I think writing an article about the spoiler, with the spoiler included, is a spoiler. Why not just keep things like this to yourself? I had already figured Sentry would fall at the end of #4, but come on! Not everyone picks up the newest issues on day one (like me), so I would rather this not be on the site. I wasn't even aware of Sentry: Fallen Son before this article.

" kinda new it was going to happen any way "

This also happened with Flash: Rebirth and Professor Zoom.  The Blackest night tie-ins revealed everything before Rebirth ended.  Might have been due to art delays but still  same issue.

Covers are what they are. If the stories interesting enough, I'll STILL wanna see how we get there...

To be fair about Reborn it was orginally going to be five issues and end in december, when all of the annuals had steve appear  in them. Hence why who will wield to shield came out that month as well. they needed him back before Siege began the next month.  Hitch felt he needed an extra issue to fully tell the story and Marvel gave it to him. i think one editor said that six was more director cut.
  
Also Remember that siege 4 was originally scheduled to come out in April but was delayed to May so these are more of art  and schduling issues than marvel coming out and spoiling the book the week of release. Beside it was obvious to anyone fllowing the bok that sentry was going to die in the end. THere was one death that al ot of people did not see coming and so marvel still and something to show

Marvel has a habit of spoiling thing before the "Revelation" in the final issue. I knew Nightcrawler was gonna die in the 1st issue of 2nd coming cause he had more screen time then normal

" you would think such a huge company would have a slightly better marketting stratergy in terms of selling arcs and not giving away the ending and potential damaging sales "

Yea it was kind of predictable that Sentry was going to bite the dust. It is awkward that you go to your local comic book store and go look through alphabetical order to look at this weeks comics and see the cover of Sentry Fallen Son before Siege 4 lol.

They also did this - intentionally, may I add - with the ending of Second Coming through solicits and teasers.

he'll be back !!!!!

" kinda new it was going to happen any way "

it was probably intentional, i mean, how can u accidently send that out?

the cover definitly ruined the story for me, u know what happens before u even open the comic.

Marvel do this all the frickin' time.  It's why I get so iritated about their badly timed cross-overs.  Half way through a 'major cross-over, and the solicitations for the next story arc give away who's going to survive or die... 
 
Messiah War was spoiled by Utopia.  Necrosha was spoiled by Second Coming.  X-Force #26 was (almost) spoiled by the solicited covers for July's comics showing characters who were meant to 'possibly' die.  Lame...!

well, Sentry didnt look dead on Fallen Son, just unconscious. I actually just thought he lost this fight and they where gonna find a way to depower and possibly incarcerate him.

I think people thought Sentry would go out as a hero... he just went out with a whimper begging to die. Not really going out as a hero at all. The Fallen Sun thing was a weird book, similar thing was done for Hercules but seems people forgot this guy went rogue.

I think people thought Sentry would go out as a hero... he just went out with a whimper begging to die. Not really going out as a hero at all. The Fallen Sun thing was a weird book, similar thing was done for Hercules but seems people forgot this guy went rogue.

Heroic Age can't come fast enough.

"I was more shocked with Loki "

"I agree, that issue should of come out this week.....or never at all... it was awful "

I think the only way not to ruin comic books nowadays, is to pretty much live in a cave, and don't use the internet or read solicits.

it was one of the most predictable things in recent marvel history. but yeah, i guess it was frustrating to see that on the shelf when i was looking for siege 4.