At Least It Was Only Four Issues Of Crap

Disney Comics' latest "event", called Siege, wrapped up today. It was a 4-issue miniseries that had lots of spin-offs and one-shots to accompany it, none of which (thankfully) I was foolish enough to purchase or read. I decided to take a flyer on Siege itself, but even that was $15.96 more than I really should have wasted on this story.

The intent of Siege, I believe, was to transition in a dramatic fashion away from the cynical stories of the past several years (Civil War, Secret Invasion and Dark Reign) and into what Disney is touting as "The Heroic Age." That's all well and good.

Unfortunately, what they accomplished was a ridiculous story involving the destruction of Asgard (home of Thor and the Norse gods) as well as one of their Superman-analogues, the Sentry, going nuts and having to be put down (thrown into the sun, in this case... which I personally had no idea Thor was anywhere nearly capable of doing, but I guess that just shows how dumb I am!) Along the way, Thor's evil half-brother, Loki, was shown to be repentant for his part in the proceedings and shocked - yes, shocked! - that Earth's superhero community had such unbridled power as the evil persona of the Sentry demonstrated.

OK, let's think about that last plot point for just a few seconds (meaning, a few seconds longer than writer Brian Bendis apparently did): Loki's been around for centuries or more, and has interacted with the Disney (nee Marvel) Universe for the last several decades. Over that span, he's seen various members of that super-fraternity defeat Galactus, the Planet Eater, at least a dozen times; he's watched them repel alien invasions, overcome enemies who can alter reality with a mere thought... and yet he "could not see that this monster was so all-powerful" (yes, that's an actual quote). Yup, he thought they were a bunch of pikers who, when pushed, couldn't possibly be capable of doing something truly destructive. Sigh.

And then, to top it off, when the Sentry's disposed of, all of the heroes who were at each others' throats through Civil War, Secret Invasion and Dark Reign, get together for a party at Avengers Tower and decide to be buddy-buddy again. Yeah, that's some fine character development, that is!

Anyway, I can take solace in the fact that I didn't invest more than my $15.96 into this. I'm sure others got soaked for a whole lot more.