Avengers Siege Solicits for April

[long_silence]

Siege ends in April and it seems that Marvel has decided to end all four of its core Avengers books with the event (and presumably relaunch them in the Summer). IGN has the solicits here.



NEW AVENGERS #64
Written by BRIAN MICHAEL BENDIS
Pencils by TIM GREEN II
Cover by STUART IMMONEN

SIEGE BLOCKBUSTER TIE-IN!!

The staggering conclusion to the SIEGE arc delves into the Hood's secret relationship with Norman Osborn and how it will affect the stunning outcome.

Plus the fate of the one they call Mockingbird! What you don't see in SIEGE, you will see here!!

32 PGS./Rated A …$3.99

Wait, what's happening to Mockingbird?

NEW AVENGERS: FINALE
Written by BRIAN MICHAEL BENDIS
Pencils & Cover by BRYAN HITCH

In the wake of SIEGE, an ALL NEW shocking conclusion to the landmark NEW AVENGERS series. NEW AVENGERS is coming to an end…but not without a bang. For the first time ever, series regular Brian Bendis teams up with the superstar artist that reinvented team books for this generation…Bryan Hitch.

The entirety of the Marvel landscape has changed and many Avengers do not know their place in it. But before they can move on, some very important loose ends need to be tied up. A.K.A. it's payback time!! All this and a bevy of super star artists stop by to pay tribute to the work they made famous over the course of this top-selling book.

64 PGS./One-Shot/Rated A …$4.99



Written by BRIAN MICHAEL BENDIS
Pencils & Cover by MIKE DEODATO

SIEGE BLOCKBUSTER TIE-IN!!

Series Finale!! What?! Marvel's number one ongoing series is coming to an end?! What could possibly happen in the last chapter of SIEGE that is so intense as to bring this crazy chapter in Marvel history to a close??!! Well, clearly we can't tell you here but there will be a funeral and the fate of Norman Osborn Will. Be. Decided!!

32 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99


MIGHTY AVENGERS #36
Written by DAN SLOTT
Pencils & Cover by KHOI PHAM

SIEGE BLOCKBUSTER TIE-IN!!

SALVATION Pt. 2 of 2 - "WWJVDD"

SERIES FINALE! While the Mighty Avengers are fighting on the front lines of SIEGE, can HANK PYM and JOCASTA stop the Avenger's greatest enemy, ULTRON, by themselves? Or will Pym-Space become the ultimate staging ground for a cybernetic-assault on all of reality? See SIEGE through the eyes of the Avengers with the most to lose!

The Dark Reign is ending, the Age of Heroes is coming, but before that can happen... there's a wedding? And more than one character is thinking, "What would Janet Van Dyne do?" We can't be any more cryptic than that. Trust us, you don't want to miss this one.

32 PGS./Rated A …$2.99

Hank's marrying Jocasta isn't he? Ew.


AVENGERS: THE INITIATIVE #35
Written by CHRISTOS N. GAGE
Penciled by JORGE MOLINA
Cover by DAVID YARDIN

SIEGE BLOCKBUSTER TIE-IN!!

This is it: the series finale – and the end of the Initiative as we know it! Learn the fate of your favorite heroes, villains... and those who aren't quite sure what they are, but who are going to have to decide in a hurry!

Who will taste sweet victory? Who will know the agony of defeat? For some this is an end -- for others, a new beginning (which you'll be reading about very soon)! Camp H.A.M.M.E.R. is falling...and The Heroic Age is dawning!

32 PGS./Rated T+ …$2.99

I think that the series replacing the Initiative was announced a few months back. Avengers Academy by Gage and Mckone, don't quote me on that though.

Also apparently there are going to be a number of one shots at the end of Siege. No covers or solicits yet.

Fallen
Siege: Loki
Siege: Spider-Man
Siege: Captain America
Siege: Young Avengers
Siege: Secret Warriors

Comments

[shanejayell]

I'm pretty 'meh' about this.

[theanswer]

Oh look it's Ultron and the villains are getting their just desserts a little bit too late for me to care.

[bwhahahabeck]

Sob, Dark Avengers. I will miss you. That cover looks awesome too.

[foxhack]

......

That isn't Bucky in the first cover.

Fucking hell.

[punishermax]

I know. God Bless You Dark Avengers, you were funny, well drawn and well written. May a flight of angels sing thee to thy rest.

[punishermax]

Man Marvel really can't win around here/

[bwhahahabeck]

I was likewise disturbed by this.

[iskander]

Mmmm.Tirga is lookin' GOOD...

[iskander]

Me too. From sketchie hook-ups to , "it's time to take your meds",it was really different.

[theanswer]

It's not my fault they milked Dark Reign until I didn't care anymore. Or that the set up for Siege was boring. Also, Steve's come back was very meh. It should have been a surprise.

[colonel_green]

No, that's Bucky. Steve's costume doesn't have shoulder-stars.

[box_in_the_box]

Strangely enough, when you beat people over the heads with six solid years of shit they don't want, they don't automatically fall all over themselves with gratitude just because you stop.

I never thought I'd hate a decade worse than I did the '90s, but Jesus, the Zeroes was the decade when SATAN took over.

[long_silence]

Plus he looks very shiny.

Though his eyebrows look kinda blond there.

[foxhack]

Bucky doesn't have blond eyebrows.

[colonel_green]

Hard to say what colour that is, but Steve's not going to wear Bucky's costume, so I wouldn't worry.

[grimmbear]

I'm pretty sure Janet is not as dead as they want us to think. I think Hank and Jan getting remarried would be perfect.

[punishermax]

What a huge surprise it would have been too! I mean, besides the big selling comic entitles "Captain America: Reborn" floating around and all.

[punishermax]

The worst part of the 00's was John Romita Jr's run on Amazing.

There, I said it.

[theanswer]

Ok?

[colonel_green]

That's the internet for you.

[punishermax]

What I'm saying is that it would be impossible for Steve's come back to be a surprise. Honestly, to me is was pretty awesome anyway.

[colonel_green]

The prologue to Slott's run was narrated from 2010 by "Jocasta Pym", so I'd bet it's the obvious.

[espanolbot]

Hm, multiple exclamation marks. You know what Pratchett said about those?

A sign of a diseased mind.

And isn't calling it a blockbuster before it's even been published jumping the gun somewhat?

[box_in_the_box]

I wouldn't rate it as the "worst," but even as someone who occasionally liked what JMS did on Amazing Spider-Man, JRjr's art really does not live up to the hype.

He was actually a MUCH better artist in the '80s, when his figures were slightly more cubist, but much more stylized and detailed, versions of what his dad drew, but Jesus, ever since he became King Of The Box People, he's been shit.

[colonel_green]

Bendis and Hitch is an interesting pairing, creatively. Bendis uses widescreen primarily for characters talking, which, when you consider that Hitch is the guy who basically invented that style of art to show big action, is a contrast.