CBR Review: Siege #1
Like Steve Rogers drop kicking the Red Skull out of his frontal lobe, I make my triumphant return to reviews for Comic Book Resources with a pretty loud bang: Siege #1
Thanks to the newest wave of Marvel’s writers, such as Hickman and Fraction and Remender, Marvel has become a much stranger place when the seeds for “Siege” were planted in a very young new century. The kingdom of the Norse gods is currently hovering over Kansas and is about to get invaded by the Green Goblin in an Iron Man suit. Volstagg just blew up Soldier Field. As “morally” dark as “Dark Reign” might have been on paper, it gave birth to a whole lot of crazy pulp scenarios that were light years apart from the kind of grim stuff that came out of the immediate results of “Disassembled” and “House Of M”. This makes “Siege” a much more widescreen and engaging work. It’s just a bit too crazy to get bogged down in the kind of gritty moping that previous Marvel events often fell victim to, and it’s a much better read because of it.
(Naturally, I can’t go very long without talking about all the other writers I’m enamored with at Marvel right now. C’est la guerre!)
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Benjamin Birdie
Suddenly kind of aged, Benjamin lives in Queens with his cat. His Master's Degree in Creative Writing has helped him immensely with his primary responsibilities of drawing things.
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