New Avengers: Siege is the 15th story-arc of the series written by Brian Michael Bendis and drawn by Stuart Immonen , Daniel Acuña, Mike McKone , collecting episodes 61-64 plus the epilogue Final , drawn by Bryan Hitch , published by Marvel Comics from March to June 2010.
These episodes conclude the volume 1 of the series.
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- New Avengers: Siege (# 61-64).
In the neighborhood of Hell's Kitchen, thanks to the powers given to it by Asgardian Norn Stones, The Hood increase the powers of certain members of his gang to, as demanded by Norman Osborn, they hunt down and eliminate the New Avengers. Thus, in the old hideout of Bucky Barnes (now destroyed by the Avengers blacks in the Annual # 3), he and Steve Rogers facing the Living Laser and the Corruptor, mentally manipulating the new Captain America against his mentor.
In Manhattan, Spider-Man and Spider-Woman attending from the Hammer to the Helicarrier Broxton, Oklahoma, which began the siege of Asgard by the troops of Osborn, when the Mandrill and the Gryphon attack.
Both tandems are able to defeat their opponents and win the new base of New Avengers where Steve Rogers, learning the maneuvers Osborn cons Asgard on television, convinced the team but also the Young Avengers and the Secret Warriors Nick Fury Thor and go help his people. A
Broxton, the battle raged and the storm, two other couples recall the day: on one side, Luke Cage was discussing the future with Jessica Jones and their children, on the other, Clint Barton / Ronin trying to find out what concerned Bobbi Morse / Mockingbird since his return (after Secret Invasion).
The victory gained by the heroes of pain (after the death of Ares, the performance of Sentry and fall of Asgard), a duo last eclipsed the battlefield: Parker Robbins, stripped of its powers , and his mistress, Madame Masque ...
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- New Avengers: Finale.
Asgard in ruins, the New Avengers still savoring victory but not whether they are still considered off-the-law. Steve Rogers, newly promoted new super-cop in America, reassured when men threaten Asgardians The Hood, taken prisoner. The Wrecking Crew Mandrill and give the address of John King, the right-hand man of Parker Robbins and Luke Cage band left immediately after him to jam enemy.
The Hood found refuge with the father of Mrs. Mask, Count Nefaria, which provides new powers to thug (thus the means to attack again the hero) cons his fortune. But John King delivered his accomplice to the New Avengers that arise and, after a brief but intense fight, neutralize Robbins, Mrs. Mask and Nefaria, they then deliver to Maria Hill.
is the day of reckoning for vigilantes who are no longer heroes condemned to the underground and Luke Cage, benefiting from a walk in Central Park, remembers the great moments shared with its allies during the last six years (the trip to Japan and meeting with Ronin, one with Sentry, House of M, the case of the Collective, Secret Invasion, the battle against the gang of Hood, the blacks against the Avengers, and Siege).
* After 67 episodes and 6 years of existence, Volume 1 found his New Avengers epilogue in this final arc, and this great Finals, after the event Siege, also written by his screenwriter, Brian Michael Bendis . After crossing all the crossovers Marvel during that period, often at the forefront, have embodied the revival of the classic Avengers and became heroes to be illegal (for 46 episodes over two-thirds of their adventures), they are finally pardoned and prepare their entry in the "heroic age" (until the next saga that will change everything forever ...).
episodes annexes Siege not remain in the annals of the series: the year is always ungrateful when it comes to telling a story without repeating what happens in the saga of a major crossover, and already with Secret Invasion, Bendis did not was very inspired. The brevity of Siege at least had the merit to shorten the task, and during the first half, the writer is doing quite well with two episodes focused on pairs and Spider-Man/Woman Bucky Rogers. Funny, rhythmic, even if it is not amazing.
Once the heroes engaged in the Battle of Asgard, it is much less exciting and Bendis is on autopilot, unable not to be repeated without offering much relief to its flashback sequences with Cage and his wife or the couple Barton-Morse.
Graphically, they are also curiosities: Stuart Immonen shares the job with Daniel Acuña and despite their stylistic differences, the copy is pretty convincing, but it looks like patches between Immonen who was preparing for the first arc Volume 2 and Acuña which provides a fill-in while he deserved to illustrate a wide arc. Then Mike McKone ends it off with two episodes honorable but without much interest Thus, where the colorization of Dave McCaig obscures his line yet elegant. The
Final, an episode of 40 pages with a dozen pages of double-extracted from the previous ( by David Finch, Steve McNiven, Olivier Coipel, Mike Deodato, Leinil Yu, Bryan Hitch, Billy Tan and Stuart Immonen - which makes him a double-page original, beautiful), is against a total success.
We finally right to revenge against The New Avengers Hood, long awaited, with guest-star Nefaria, one of the oldest enemies of the Avengers Classic, created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby in the 60's. Bendis wrote a story where the action is king, dramatic and effective, really exhilarating.
Bryan Hitch , inked by Butch Guice and Andrew Currie (partners Captain America: Renaissance and Ultimates Vol. 1), delivers its best boards for a long time and gives a scale to measure the awesome thing about the episode.
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Brian Bendis has not drafted a series always impeccable: Mark Millar had blown the idea of creating the New Avengers into the equivalent of Marvel JLA , a pantheon of heroes of the firm. But until the schism of Civil War, the author never quite comfortable with this concept, as if waiting for a major crisis to overhaul the group and give him his true identity secret hero, d outsiders, defending more principles, an ideal that the law and order. The death of Steve Rogers was the detonator of the assertion of Bendis in New Avengers and then made a non-team if the franchise "Avengers" was not so strong (thanks to him and Millar, with Ultimates , This is the irony), would probably renamed Defenders (the archetype of non-team at Marvel).
The writer then revealed his megaphone with the character of Luke Cage, who, as a symbol, is an ex-convict, lonely, black, without a mask or costume, having waived his nickname (ridiculous) Power Man. In counterpoint, Bendis has given the series a recurring villain, The Hood (created by Brian K. Vaughan ), who, like Cage, not wearing a costume and just an alias (the hood is one of his magic cape ).
With a bow like Revolution where he revealed the Skrull threat and the true origin of his team, formed during the escape from the Raft, hosted by Queen Veranke, Bendis has managed his masterpiece, introducing paranoia in its title and fetish the Marvelverse. It is unfortunate that he failed to secure this brilliant idea in a crossover too long (Secret Invasion ) ... But the New Avengers series instead taken advantage during the "Dark Reign" which followed, confirming his players in their position of outlaws and battles increasingly bitter against Osborn and his troops.
confirmed artists have contributed to the series, as David Finch, Mike Deodato, Olivier Coipel. But New Avengers was often better when they are in the process of recognizing designers who have brought with Bendis: Leinil Yu has done a remarkable passage, so by the time the aesthetics, very original, and without his brief stay, Immonen would probably not win the right to become the next artist, let alone the future event to draw Marvel (Fear Itself ) ... Of course, the series would have benefited from having more visual unity and it is frustrating to see people like Cho, there Coipel Hitch or have completed that brief appearances. But the charm of New Avengers also held to this, a laboratory as well as graphic narrative.
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Go, strongly Volume 2!
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