The Sentry in happier days

[stubbleupdate]

Siege #4 came out this week and was Sentry heavy. I've done some of my thoughts on NSD about the end of Dark Reign and we've already seen the main fallout from Siege: Fallen. I'm going to go through the archives and do a bit on the previous times that Olivier Coipel has turned his pen to the Golden Guardian of Good, with Brian Michael Bendis doing the writing.

We start off with House of M, which was probably Marvel's prettiest event book since the cycle started with Disassembled.

I don't think that we need much context here. These two pages are Sentry's entire appearance in House of M.

(Yes, those are a fair old set of teeth that Reynolds Jr has)

I kind of like it. Strange is probably too detached,but the Reynolds stuff is cool. The idea of having this huge thing hanging over you that you can't deal with is a good way of looking at the character.



Context: The Black Widow II (exploded in one of the first New Avengers books) is turned into a super-adaptoid and attacks Avengers Tower. If you touch her, she takes your powers.

The next few bits are kind of choppy, cutting out the non-Sentry stuff, but keeping the narrative flow going.





Iron Man works out that if she can only absorb your powers once, so he takes all of his armours by remote control and dogpiles the Super Adaptoid.






And then the Super Adaptoid's handlers flick a switch and she goes asplodey.
Then Luke Cage and Jessica Jones get married.

I liked the way that they made it clear that only one person can cope with being the Sentry and even he can barely manage it.

char: sentry/bob reynolds, creator: olivier coipel, creator: brian michael bendis, title: house of M, char: dr. Strange/stephen strange, group: new avengers, title: new avengers, publisher: marvel comics, char: black widow/yelena belova,

Comments

[flidgetjerome]

I do have genuine nostalgia for this brief era of New Avengers. It was new and different and they still had a great team dynamic, I really wish it had lasted longer.

[tavella]

I wasn't hugely fond of how they got to New Avengers, but the book played to Bendis' strengths, and the interactions were great.

[lbd_nytetrayn]

The New Avengers were great when it started. Too bad it wound up just being a prelude to Marvel's cluster@#$% of crossover madness for... geeze, how many years have they been doing one company-wide event after another?

It was a status quo I'd have been quite happy with for a while. Funny how a company that seems so desperate to maintain a status quo, particularly for Spider-man, can't seem to let things sit still for five minutes.

Doesn't give me great hope for Age of Heroes, truth be told.

--LBD "Nytetrayn"

[skalja]

Motto.