Marvel’s Siege Begins With A Bang!

Mar­vel Comics Siege Issue#1

I just picked this comic up yes­ter­day ( yes I know, I did not get comics on Comic Book Wednes­day! ) and I have to say, I have not been this impressed with a Mar­vel comic since the Death of Cap­tain America.

I remem­ber see­ing a short pre­view of this series and it was at best just a teaser for this first full blown issue!

So what’s the big deal here anyway?

Well, Nor­man Osborn…yes that Osborn with a Green Gob­lin in his past is the direc­tor of Ham­mer, and is the team leader of the Dark Reign Avengers, whose mem­bers also include The Sen­try and the God of War, Ares.

Add into this dis­as­trous mix, the Mighty Thor’s evil half brother, Loki who just hap­pens to be one of Osborn’s con­fi­dants, has brought a plan together.

In case you dear blog reader are unaware, Asgard has returned..and has come to Midgard ( that’s Earth for the rest of you! ) and along with Asgard has come the newly res­ur­rected Thor, who has been res­ur­rect­ing his fel­low asgar­dians ( includ­ing the fair Lady Sif )  whose very essences were found inside the mor­tal coil of many humans, and all the while Loki was spin­ning his deceit­ful web, as his peo­ple went to live for a short time in Latve­ria, under the aus­pices of one ” Vic­tor Von Doom “, that would be Doc­tor Doom, just in case you weren’t aware.

Loke and the good doc­tor, would do a few ” exper­i­ments ” on some of the asgar­dian pop­u­lace, turn­ing them into mur­der­ous, organic robots.…

and then we come to this..Asgard’s peo­ple are returned to their float­ing home, in the skies of Okla­homa, less one human and asgar­dian god­dess, thanks to the mechanization’s of Doom & Loki…

Now Loki, again try­ing to manip­u­late the fates of men and gods alike, has spo­ken with one Nor­man Osborn, and set into motion events that will effect the whole of the Mar­vel Uni­verse ( at least one would think that when ” Gods ” are involved, a whole Uni­verse would be effected! ) using one of the ” War­riors Three “, the Volu­mi­nous, Vol­stagg as a cat­a­lyst ( and excuse ) to trig­ger an all out assault on Asgard, bypass­ing even the Pres­i­dent of the United States, who is scream­ing bloody mur­der, and say­ing that Osborn is ” Out of Control ”

Osborn and his ” Avengers ” and all of the power of the vil­lains of the ” Ini­tia­tive ” bring their groups to bear on an all out ” Assault ” on Asgard, over the skies of Oklahoma…

The Dark Reign Avengers Assu­alt On Asgard

The God of Thun­der enters the Fray!

Steve Rogers reacts to the assu­alt on the God of Thunder…

Okay, at this point, my thought is this will be Marvel’s ” A” level event for 2010, and it’s other baby, ” Fall of the Hulks ” will more than likely be sub­ju­gated to a ” B ” sta­tus event…which might not be such a ter­ri­ble thing for Mar­vel, as they are hav­ing to con­tend with the jug­ger­naut that is DC comics uber…Blackest Night!