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Original Sin
Original Sin by Jason Aaron (4-Nov-2014) Hardcover
Who shot the Watcher? Uatu, the mysterious space-god who's been watching mankind from the moon for as long as we can remember...is dead. Thus begins the greatest murder mystery in Marvel history! As Nick Fury leads the heroes of the Marvel Universe in an investigati on, other forces are marshaling and other questi ons are arising. Why is Black Panther gathering a secret team of his own, including Emma Frost, the Punisher and Dr. Strange? Who is the Unseen? What was stolen from the Watcher's lair? Fury's cosmic manhunt leads to the far corners of the universe and beyond, but just when the Avengers think they've cornered their murderer...everything explodes, unleashing the Marvel Universe's greatest secrets and rocking the heroes to their core! What did the Watcher see? What was the Original Sin?
Point One 1 (Watcher story), Original Sin 0-8
Point One 1 (Watcher story), Original Sin 0-8
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Jason Aaron
2,360 books1,677 followersJason Aaron grew up in a small town in Alabama. His cousin, Gustav Hasford, who wrote the semi-autobiographical novel The Short-Timers, on which the feature film Full Metal Jacket was based, was a large influence on Aaron. Aaron decided he wanted to write comics as a child, and though his father was skeptical when Aaron informed him of this aspiration, his mother took Aaron to drug stores, where he would purchase books from spinner racks, some of which he still owns today.
Aaron's career in comics began in 2001 when he won a Marvel Comics talent search contest with an eight-page Wolverine back-up story script. The story, which was published in Wolverine #175 (June 2002), gave him the opportunity to pitch subsequent ideas to editors.
In 2006, Aaron made a blind submission to DC/Vertigo, who published his first major work, the Vietnam War story The Other Side which was nominated for an Eisner Award for Best Miniseries, and which Aaron regards as the "second time" he broke into the industry.
Following this, Vertigo asked him to pitch other ideas, which led to the series Scalped, a creator-owned series set on the fictional Prairie Rose Indian Reservation and published by DC/Vertigo.
In 2007, Aaron wrote Ripclaw: Pilot Season for Top Cow Productions. Later that year, Marvel editor Axel Alonso, who was impressed by The Other Side and Scalped, hired Aaron to write issues of Wolverine, Black Panther and eventually, an extended run on Ghost Rider that began in April 2008. His continued work on Black Panther also included a tie-in to the company-wide crossover storyline along with a "Secret Invasion" with David Lapham in 2009.
In January 2008, he signed an exclusive contract with Marvel, though it would not affect his work on Scalped. Later that July, he wrote the Penguin issue of The Joker's Asylum.
After a 4-issue stint on Wolverine in 2007, Aaron returned to the character with the ongoing series Wolverine: Weapon X, launched to coincide with the feature film X-Men Origins: Wolverine. Aaron commented, "With Wolverine: Weapon X we'll be trying to mix things up like that from arc to arc, so the first arc is a typical sort of black ops story but the second arc will jump right into the middle of a completely different genre," In 2010, the series was relaunched once again as simply Wolverine. He followed this with his current run on Thor: God of Thunder.
Aaron's career in comics began in 2001 when he won a Marvel Comics talent search contest with an eight-page Wolverine back-up story script. The story, which was published in Wolverine #175 (June 2002), gave him the opportunity to pitch subsequent ideas to editors.
In 2006, Aaron made a blind submission to DC/Vertigo, who published his first major work, the Vietnam War story The Other Side which was nominated for an Eisner Award for Best Miniseries, and which Aaron regards as the "second time" he broke into the industry.
Following this, Vertigo asked him to pitch other ideas, which led to the series Scalped, a creator-owned series set on the fictional Prairie Rose Indian Reservation and published by DC/Vertigo.
In 2007, Aaron wrote Ripclaw: Pilot Season for Top Cow Productions. Later that year, Marvel editor Axel Alonso, who was impressed by The Other Side and Scalped, hired Aaron to write issues of Wolverine, Black Panther and eventually, an extended run on Ghost Rider that began in April 2008. His continued work on Black Panther also included a tie-in to the company-wide crossover storyline along with a "Secret Invasion" with David Lapham in 2009.
In January 2008, he signed an exclusive contract with Marvel, though it would not affect his work on Scalped. Later that July, he wrote the Penguin issue of The Joker's Asylum.
After a 4-issue stint on Wolverine in 2007, Aaron returned to the character with the ongoing series Wolverine: Weapon X, launched to coincide with the feature film X-Men Origins: Wolverine. Aaron commented, "With Wolverine: Weapon X we'll be trying to mix things up like that from arc to arc, so the first arc is a typical sort of black ops story but the second arc will jump right into the middle of a completely different genre," In 2010, the series was relaunched once again as simply Wolverine. He followed this with his current run on Thor: God of Thunder.
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July 20, 2015
2.5 Stars
Spoilers ahead, cats and kittens.
When I finished reading this last night, I had two thoughts: 1) Nick Fury is spry for a man who doesn’t look a day over 117; and 2) what the f@#& just happened?
The first part is pretty self-explanatory: you don’t normally see men whose desiccated flesh is literally dripping off their faces leaping about like, say, Batroc the Leaper whilst firing laser guns willy-nilly into the darkness of space. Or, at least, I don’t. But, my life is a bit mundane.
The second part is, obviously, in no way self-explanatory, so if anyone wants to explain the last couple of issues to me (and to Jason Aaron, who I’m not entirely convinced knows what happened either, notwithstanding his authorial credit), I’d appreciate it.
For those unfamiliar with the premise of the latest in a long line of seemingly promising but ultimately disappointing Marvel event stories, let’s do some scene setting. Our old pal Uatu the Watcher has been murdered (*gasp*)…and his all-seeing eyes plucked from his freakily shaped skull (double *gasp*)! Whodunnit? Well, that’s what a whole host of heroes would like to know. Said heroes enlist the aid of the cigar-smoke-redolent silver fox Nick Fury to figure out what went down. Along the way, some creepy D-list villain called “The Orb” (possibly a card-carrying member of the Mort of the Month club for those of you who read Wizard back in the day) somehow detonates one of the Watcher’s eyes, releasing a Power Girl chest-load of secrets out into the world, so many that even Gretchen Wieners’ hair could not contain them. Now, some of these are harmless secrets (e.g., sometimes the Hulk would try on his grandmother’s panties when she wasn’t around and tuck back his green divining rod and giggle berries as he stuck out his very large posterior and gazed upon his sickeningly sexy countenance in the mirror); some of them are relationship shattering (e.g., Ben Grimm could have been permanently restored to his human state once upon a time, but that rapscallion Johnny Storm mucked with the calibrations on Reed’s “Turn the Thing Normal Machine” and it all went kablooey, dooming ol’ Blue Eyes to a lifetime of never, ever being able to find a condom that fits over his orange dork); and some of them are Marvel Universe-altering (Thor had a sister?? AND SHE IS ANGELA?!).
(Editor’s note: one of the three aforementioned secrets may or may not have been fabricated in an attempt at what the author believes is “humor.” Our apologies to Johnny Storm for besmirching his good name.)
I wasn’t wild about how this all went down, but a more interesting development emerged mid-story: it turns out that our old pal Nick Fury has been operating through LMDs (look it up, non-dorks) pretty much forever, because the REAL Nick Fury has been hanging out on the moon, unbeknownst to all (though knownst to himself), subsisting on green cheese and serving as “the man on the wall,” or the cosmic-level Wolverine: the guy who gets his hands dirty killing any and every threat to humanity so that the Captain Americas of the world don’t have to. He’s kept himself young by injecting a variation on Cap’s super soldier serum, but the serum has run out and, as with Dick Clark in that fantastic Far Side cartoon, Fury suddenly ages about 3,000 years in a day and a half, so he needs to find a successor lickety-split.
To that end, he lures a host of brave but morally questionable heroes to the moon (the Winter Soldier, Doctor Strange, the Punisher, Black Widow, Black Panther (because black still equals bad, apparently…sometimes I hate white people) and the aptly named Moon Knight amongst them), ostensibly to solve the mystery of the Watcher’s death, but really to find someone to take his place before he bucks the kicket.
This, I thought, was an intriguing idea, even if it retconned every single Nick Fury appearance over the past, oh, five decades. So, I’m thinking to myself, “Self—this isn’t half bad. This might actually go somewhere good.” And then the last two issues happened.
I don’t want to COMPLETELY spoil the shenanigans, but let’s just say this: Fury does something unjustifiably reprehensible no matter how anti you like your heroes and then takes on a new role with a name that assures his own future status in Mort of the Month infamy; Bucky Barnes, of all people, becomes the most important human in the universe, basically; the Orb wants to watch some chick kill someone in a particularly creepy way; and there’s a lot of drawings that look cool at first glance, but then when you’re trying to figure out what the hell is going on and who is who, you can’t.
On the plus side, fun team-ups: I mean, when was the last time Dr. Strange and the Punisher hung out? That’s got sitcom written all over it. Also, there are some moments where Fury and the Watcher are staring each other down that make me think there’s some serious slash fiction just waiting to happen. (“Say something if you don’t want me to use this unlit cigar in creative ways, Uatu. Not talking, you alien freak? Hepzibah got your tongue, or are you just ready to taste hot Fury? Bend over, baldy.”)
Bottom line: you’ll need to read it if you’re a Marvel zombie (given the implications for the broader Marvel U) or if you have a thing for hot great-great-great grandpas saving the world, but maybe skip it otherwise.
Spoilers ahead, cats and kittens.
When I finished reading this last night, I had two thoughts: 1) Nick Fury is spry for a man who doesn’t look a day over 117; and 2) what the f@#& just happened?
The first part is pretty self-explanatory: you don’t normally see men whose desiccated flesh is literally dripping off their faces leaping about like, say, Batroc the Leaper whilst firing laser guns willy-nilly into the darkness of space. Or, at least, I don’t. But, my life is a bit mundane.
The second part is, obviously, in no way self-explanatory, so if anyone wants to explain the last couple of issues to me (and to Jason Aaron, who I’m not entirely convinced knows what happened either, notwithstanding his authorial credit), I’d appreciate it.
For those unfamiliar with the premise of the latest in a long line of seemingly promising but ultimately disappointing Marvel event stories, let’s do some scene setting. Our old pal Uatu the Watcher has been murdered (*gasp*)…and his all-seeing eyes plucked from his freakily shaped skull (double *gasp*)! Whodunnit? Well, that’s what a whole host of heroes would like to know. Said heroes enlist the aid of the cigar-smoke-redolent silver fox Nick Fury to figure out what went down. Along the way, some creepy D-list villain called “The Orb” (possibly a card-carrying member of the Mort of the Month club for those of you who read Wizard back in the day) somehow detonates one of the Watcher’s eyes, releasing a Power Girl chest-load of secrets out into the world, so many that even Gretchen Wieners’ hair could not contain them. Now, some of these are harmless secrets (e.g., sometimes the Hulk would try on his grandmother’s panties when she wasn’t around and tuck back his green divining rod and giggle berries as he stuck out his very large posterior and gazed upon his sickeningly sexy countenance in the mirror); some of them are relationship shattering (e.g., Ben Grimm could have been permanently restored to his human state once upon a time, but that rapscallion Johnny Storm mucked with the calibrations on Reed’s “Turn the Thing Normal Machine” and it all went kablooey, dooming ol’ Blue Eyes to a lifetime of never, ever being able to find a condom that fits over his orange dork); and some of them are Marvel Universe-altering (Thor had a sister?? AND SHE IS ANGELA?!).
(Editor’s note: one of the three aforementioned secrets may or may not have been fabricated in an attempt at what the author believes is “humor.” Our apologies to Johnny Storm for besmirching his good name.)
I wasn’t wild about how this all went down, but a more interesting development emerged mid-story: it turns out that our old pal Nick Fury has been operating through LMDs (look it up, non-dorks) pretty much forever, because the REAL Nick Fury has been hanging out on the moon, unbeknownst to all (though knownst to himself), subsisting on green cheese and serving as “the man on the wall,” or the cosmic-level Wolverine: the guy who gets his hands dirty killing any and every threat to humanity so that the Captain Americas of the world don’t have to. He’s kept himself young by injecting a variation on Cap’s super soldier serum, but the serum has run out and, as with Dick Clark in that fantastic Far Side cartoon, Fury suddenly ages about 3,000 years in a day and a half, so he needs to find a successor lickety-split.
To that end, he lures a host of brave but morally questionable heroes to the moon (the Winter Soldier, Doctor Strange, the Punisher, Black Widow, Black Panther (because black still equals bad, apparently…sometimes I hate white people) and the aptly named Moon Knight amongst them), ostensibly to solve the mystery of the Watcher’s death, but really to find someone to take his place before he bucks the kicket.
This, I thought, was an intriguing idea, even if it retconned every single Nick Fury appearance over the past, oh, five decades. So, I’m thinking to myself, “Self—this isn’t half bad. This might actually go somewhere good.” And then the last two issues happened.
I don’t want to COMPLETELY spoil the shenanigans, but let’s just say this: Fury does something unjustifiably reprehensible no matter how anti you like your heroes and then takes on a new role with a name that assures his own future status in Mort of the Month infamy; Bucky Barnes, of all people, becomes the most important human in the universe, basically; the Orb wants to watch some chick kill someone in a particularly creepy way; and there’s a lot of drawings that look cool at first glance, but then when you’re trying to figure out what the hell is going on and who is who, you can’t.
On the plus side, fun team-ups: I mean, when was the last time Dr. Strange and the Punisher hung out? That’s got sitcom written all over it. Also, there are some moments where Fury and the Watcher are staring each other down that make me think there’s some serious slash fiction just waiting to happen. (“Say something if you don’t want me to use this unlit cigar in creative ways, Uatu. Not talking, you alien freak? Hepzibah got your tongue, or are you just ready to taste hot Fury? Bend over, baldy.”)
Bottom line: you’ll need to read it if you’re a Marvel zombie (given the implications for the broader Marvel U) or if you have a thing for hot great-great-great grandpas saving the world, but maybe skip it otherwise.
November 21, 2021
This was a pretty good read!
Its a murder mystery as the watcher is murdered on the moon and different teams of Avengers must team up to find the killer and yeah there are many but I like the one with winter soldier and moon knight, also the one with Dr Strange and Punisher while fun does delve into the mystery of what happened to the watcher but also involved the orbs and secrets leaking out more like retcon machines and while others deal with that and when the killer is revealed to be it will change the heroes particularly Thor and the killer himself and well the marvel universe in a large way.
I like the way Aaron does it, retconning massive marvel continuity and yeah it can be frustrating but then again these stories are sort of designed to be like that and the murder mystery aspect of it is cool and when the reasons are revealed its okayish and I kinda like the way the Orb ends up becoming a threat too, overall okayish with great character moments and changes a lot of things about the heroes so a must read in that angle. The art while dark was good too and shows the urgency of the situation.
Its a murder mystery as the watcher is murdered on the moon and different teams of Avengers must team up to find the killer and yeah there are many but I like the one with winter soldier and moon knight, also the one with Dr Strange and Punisher while fun does delve into the mystery of what happened to the watcher but also involved the orbs and secrets leaking out more like retcon machines and while others deal with that and when the killer is revealed to be it will change the heroes particularly Thor and the killer himself and well the marvel universe in a large way.
I like the way Aaron does it, retconning massive marvel continuity and yeah it can be frustrating but then again these stories are sort of designed to be like that and the murder mystery aspect of it is cool and when the reasons are revealed its okayish and I kinda like the way the Orb ends up becoming a threat too, overall okayish with great character moments and changes a lot of things about the heroes so a must read in that angle. The art while dark was good too and shows the urgency of the situation.
December 28, 2015
Considering its marvel I thought it was pretty good. I think they took their time and made a cool event that has some impact on the universe. Aaron is a solid writer and I am glad they used him on most of it. I think one problem marvel has is they used to many characters in this story, there was no need to bring in the x-men ( even thought i like them) or spiderman or the guardians really. I thought killing the watcher was a nice shakeup.
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nick fury is the center piece and it was a cool idea but I would of liked if it was someone more relevant. His back story as a super spy/wall watcher was cool I liked that part. but the villains uggggh Midas is super boring and I could not of cared less, it took all the wind out of sails for me. the orb was also pretty lame but at least he has a cliffhanger so potentially he could be useful later. overall the spread of the secrets is a launchpad that will have ramifications for a while, probably the best part really. by the way, brubaker got the throwaway story, what a waste of a good writer.
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nick fury is the center piece and it was a cool idea but I would of liked if it was someone more relevant. His back story as a super spy/wall watcher was cool I liked that part. but the villains uggggh Midas is super boring and I could not of cared less, it took all the wind out of sails for me. the orb was also pretty lame but at least he has a cliffhanger so potentially he could be useful later. overall the spread of the secrets is a launchpad that will have ramifications for a while, probably the best part really. by the way, brubaker got the throwaway story, what a waste of a good writer.
October 28, 2016
1.5 Stars.
Well, the covers were certainly nice. I'll give Original Sin that much, at least.
So if you're going to have a major comics event these days you're going to need a few things, aren't you? How about:
1) A great tagline. Here, we get "Who Killed the Watcher?" I like it, so bonus points for that.
2) A kick-off point. Well if you didn't already guess, Uatu the Watcher has been killed. Someone took his eyes too, presumably because he watched something he shouldn't have. Kind of what I wish might happen after seeing a trailer for another Adam Sandler movie. Still, it's a great premise.
3) A ragtag group of heroes, representing the many diverse corners of the Marvel U. What we get: Black Panther (cool), Doc Strange (more, please!), Moon Knight (I'm still listening), Winter Soldier (okay...), Punisher (uh...), Gamora (why?), Emma Frost (because?) and Ant-Man. Okay, I like Scott Lang Ant-Man but he's written more like comic relief here, which is not really Scott Lang Ant-Man. This is definitely a ragtag, dog's breakfast kind of team, but about 1/2 of the way through I'm wondering: so WHY are these guys doing whatever it is they're doing? And why THESE guys? Once it's all said and done there is actually NO REASON AT ALL for even having assembled this team. They're all purely filler.
4) A villain. Well, I guess there ARE villains, if you want to go and get all technical about it. But I don't know in what other major event you would classify Doctor Midas, Exterminatrix and The Orb as the series' villains.
5) Some intrigue. Yes! It does start with plenty of mystery and intrigue (who shot him? who's been killing all these other monsters? what is Nick Fury up to? why The Orb??), but I also think that Jason Aaron is himself just as mystified by the potential answers. At least, it doesn't feel as though he knows where his story is going.
6) How about an actual story? There isn't one. It's that simple. Because if there was a story there would also be:
7) An ending (ie: answers and resolutions). I mean, I guess there was an ending because something eventually blew up and then everybody walked away mumbling shit to themselves before I finally closed the book. But exactly what it was that occurred in this book, I have NO IDEA. What was this so-called "Original Sin" anyway? I don't think we were ever told. I we were it probably didn't feel like enough to justify 8+ issues. Just who was Doctor Midas and WHY was he here in this book? What was the point of the Mindless Ones? If Nick Fury has spent decades blowing up monsters and invading aliens & cosmic beings before they could come to the earth then why did some of them still make it here to ruin things for us all? Could he have killed Galactus? He killed a living planet fuck's sake, why not Galactus? Why was the Watcher killed? If you're going to kill off a major Marvel character there should probably be a good reason, other than it makes for good marketing. Why is the Thing on the cover? He's not even in this book. Why is poor Thor left trying to pick up his hammer? I don't read Thor, so give me something here. Why were all of these characters exposed to the Watcher's eyeballs and given access to apparent dark secrets? Maybe more of this needs to tie-in to other books in the event but it had no impact on the main storyline, which is a pretty major editorial blunder.
And finally: Dear Jason Aaron, WHAT THE FUCK JUST HAPPENED??
Well, the covers were certainly nice. I'll give Original Sin that much, at least.
So if you're going to have a major comics event these days you're going to need a few things, aren't you? How about:
1) A great tagline. Here, we get "Who Killed the Watcher?" I like it, so bonus points for that.
2) A kick-off point. Well if you didn't already guess, Uatu the Watcher has been killed. Someone took his eyes too, presumably because he watched something he shouldn't have. Kind of what I wish might happen after seeing a trailer for another Adam Sandler movie. Still, it's a great premise.
3) A ragtag group of heroes, representing the many diverse corners of the Marvel U. What we get: Black Panther (cool), Doc Strange (more, please!), Moon Knight (I'm still listening), Winter Soldier (okay...), Punisher (uh...), Gamora (why?), Emma Frost (because?) and Ant-Man. Okay, I like Scott Lang Ant-Man but he's written more like comic relief here, which is not really Scott Lang Ant-Man. This is definitely a ragtag, dog's breakfast kind of team, but about 1/2 of the way through I'm wondering: so WHY are these guys doing whatever it is they're doing? And why THESE guys? Once it's all said and done there is actually NO REASON AT ALL for even having assembled this team. They're all purely filler.
4) A villain. Well, I guess there ARE villains, if you want to go and get all technical about it. But I don't know in what other major event you would classify Doctor Midas, Exterminatrix and The Orb as the series' villains.
5) Some intrigue. Yes! It does start with plenty of mystery and intrigue (who shot him? who's been killing all these other monsters? what is Nick Fury up to? why The Orb??), but I also think that Jason Aaron is himself just as mystified by the potential answers. At least, it doesn't feel as though he knows where his story is going.
6) How about an actual story? There isn't one. It's that simple. Because if there was a story there would also be:
7) An ending (ie: answers and resolutions). I mean, I guess there was an ending because something eventually blew up and then everybody walked away mumbling shit to themselves before I finally closed the book. But exactly what it was that occurred in this book, I have NO IDEA. What was this so-called "Original Sin" anyway? I don't think we were ever told. I we were it probably didn't feel like enough to justify 8+ issues. Just who was Doctor Midas and WHY was he here in this book? What was the point of the Mindless Ones? If Nick Fury has spent decades blowing up monsters and invading aliens & cosmic beings before they could come to the earth then why did some of them still make it here to ruin things for us all? Could he have killed Galactus? He killed a living planet fuck's sake, why not Galactus? Why was the Watcher killed? If you're going to kill off a major Marvel character there should probably be a good reason, other than it makes for good marketing. Why is the Thing on the cover? He's not even in this book. Why is poor Thor left trying to pick up his hammer? I don't read Thor, so give me something here. Why were all of these characters exposed to the Watcher's eyeballs and given access to apparent dark secrets? Maybe more of this needs to tie-in to other books in the event but it had no impact on the main storyline, which is a pretty major editorial blunder.
And finally: Dear Jason Aaron, WHAT THE FUCK JUST HAPPENED??
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
December 26, 2023
I really enjoyed this Marvel comic! The different team ups were interesting as a range of characters populated this comic. The mystery is interesting. Someone has killed The Watcher who lives on the moon. His eyes, which have unsurpassed power, are missing. The Avengers must locate the missing eyes, solve the murder mystery, and stop the madmen who wield the eyes. The comic is beautifully drawn and the story is interesting. I was truly shocked with the final events. A very good read!
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August 6, 2015This was surprisingly better than I thought it would be. The story kept me hooked, there was plenty of action and an interesting plot, and the ending was more satisfactory than what Marvel's stories have got me used to lately.
May 15, 2020
4,5 estrellas
¡Uno de los mejores comics que he leído últimamente! Es una historia de superhéroes y una de misterio al mismo tiempo. Comienza con el asesinato del Vigilante, Uatu. Se puede seguir el argumento sin ningún problema aunque no se sepa quién es este Vigilante. Yo de hecho no había leído ni un solo cómic en el que figurara más que de pasada. Toda la trama gira en torno a este asesinato en el que además le han robado los ojos porque poseen poderes mágicos de visión. El resto es el caos más absoluto y, al mismo tiempo, una perfecta coreografía, hablando metafóricamente, claro. Hay varios grupos de personajes, pero todos dudan de todos y nadie sabe si está del lado correcto. Ni siquiera saben si hay un lado correcto. En medio de todo este caos se encuentra Nick Furia, del que nadie sabe si está investigando la situación o si quiere beneficiarse de ella.
La pega principal que le veo a esta historia es que me dio la impresión de que faltaban cosas. Sucede en varios arcos argumentales porque hay grapas de diversos personajes relacionadas con el evento principal, pero aquí se notó mucho más que en otros. Espero que si algún día las leo expliquen qué narices pintan Ant-man, Emma Frost y Gamora en todo esto. La importancia de los otros es más o menos obvia, pero a ratos parecía que necesitaban personajes y que habían escogido a estos tres un poco al azar.
En general, recomiendo esta historia. Explica qué pasa para que Thor ya no pueda coger el martillo y sea Jane Foster quien lo haga. Además, ha hecho que quiera leer todo lo del Soldado de invierno que sucede justo después de esto. Después de cómo acaba Pecado Original tengo que saber cómo sigue la historia de Bucky.
¡Uno de los mejores comics que he leído últimamente! Es una historia de superhéroes y una de misterio al mismo tiempo. Comienza con el asesinato del Vigilante, Uatu. Se puede seguir el argumento sin ningún problema aunque no se sepa quién es este Vigilante. Yo de hecho no había leído ni un solo cómic en el que figurara más que de pasada. Toda la trama gira en torno a este asesinato en el que además le han robado los ojos porque poseen poderes mágicos de visión. El resto es el caos más absoluto y, al mismo tiempo, una perfecta coreografía, hablando metafóricamente, claro. Hay varios grupos de personajes, pero todos dudan de todos y nadie sabe si está del lado correcto. Ni siquiera saben si hay un lado correcto. En medio de todo este caos se encuentra Nick Furia, del que nadie sabe si está investigando la situación o si quiere beneficiarse de ella.
La pega principal que le veo a esta historia es que me dio la impresión de que faltaban cosas. Sucede en varios arcos argumentales porque hay grapas de diversos personajes relacionadas con el evento principal, pero aquí se notó mucho más que en otros. Espero que si algún día las leo expliquen qué narices pintan Ant-man, Emma Frost y Gamora en todo esto. La importancia de los otros es más o menos obvia, pero a ratos parecía que necesitaban personajes y que habían escogido a estos tres un poco al azar.
En general, recomiendo esta historia. Explica qué pasa para que Thor ya no pueda coger el martillo y sea Jane Foster quien lo haga. Además, ha hecho que quiera leer todo lo del Soldado de invierno que sucede justo después de esto. Después de cómo acaba Pecado Original tengo que saber cómo sigue la historia de Bucky.
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October 10, 2024Weird event. Uatu the Watcher is assassinated and his eyeballs stolen. The Orb is involved in the plot, as well as a much older Nick Fury and his life decoy models. This is essentially a murder mystery, as various small groups of heroes investigate who killed Uatu. My main problem with this book isn't the weirdness. It's that for so much of the book, the characters who know what's going on give countless variations of the same annoyingly vague non-answer to the question of what's going on. It gets to be so much that when we do learn what happened, it's anticlimactic.
I could be wrong about this, but it seems like a major purpose of this book was .
Original Sin is also the storyline where Thor becomes unworthy and can't pick up his hammer, leading to the whole Jane Foster Thor period in Aaron's Thor run (which I already read and enjoyed quite a bit).
I could be wrong about this, but it seems like a major purpose of this book was .
Original Sin is also the storyline where Thor becomes unworthy and can't pick up his hammer, leading to the whole Jane Foster Thor period in Aaron's Thor run (which I already read and enjoyed quite a bit).
September 30, 2024
Interesting premise, but the hyper serious grittiness of it kinda feels bad. Kinda hoping for a disneyfied soft 🍦 version
October 30, 2025
3,5/5 ⭐️
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Śmierć Watcher’a i nadal nie wiem kim jest ten niewidoczny 😅
tajemnice i tajemnice..
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The Watcher's death and I still don't know who this invisible one is 😅
secrets and secrets..
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Śmierć Watcher’a i nadal nie wiem kim jest ten niewidoczny 😅
tajemnice i tajemnice..
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The Watcher's death and I still don't know who this invisible one is 😅
secrets and secrets..
August 4, 2022
This event comic starts really well: Uatu the Watcher is dead and Nick Fury is investigating his murder.
Unfortunately, it mostly just ends up being a tool for distributing retcons.
Unfortunately, it mostly just ends up being a tool for distributing retcons.
May 14, 2020
...... I AM SO MAD...?!
May 13, 2015
Unfortunately, this suffers from many of the same issues as other events. A large cast, a broad-reaching concept, limited time, and an occasional lack of focus keep it from really standing out in any way. The whole point of the book is ambiguity, so it becomes incredibly frustrating. It is also just about the exact opposite of being new reader friendly. There are snippets of descriptions and things, but not nearly enough for everything to really be coherent. And from what I understand of the Marvel books on the shelf at the time, it doesn't matter how many you were following, it was going to get confusing.
There is also the issue of the secrets. Everyone makes a big deal and there are some tiny hints at what some of them are, but not much. It very much splits the focus of the story. This might get better as I get into some if the follow up tie in books, but I'm not counting on it. The action is a little hard to believe as well, especially the final battle. And is Hulk always that useless? It seems very out of character.
The art was pretty great for the most part. I enjoyed Deodato's take on everything. Some of the character designs started to run together, though, and some layouts were hard to follow. Overall, though, I liked it.
This is another event book. It's a decent story if you want to give it a try, but you're not missing the story of the year of you skip it. And if you're worried about continuity, I'm sure you can find anything crucial online. Hell, we are quite a ways out from this now and they still haven't resolved some of the mysteries. I could take it or leave it.
There is also the issue of the secrets. Everyone makes a big deal and there are some tiny hints at what some of them are, but not much. It very much splits the focus of the story. This might get better as I get into some if the follow up tie in books, but I'm not counting on it. The action is a little hard to believe as well, especially the final battle. And is Hulk always that useless? It seems very out of character.
The art was pretty great for the most part. I enjoyed Deodato's take on everything. Some of the character designs started to run together, though, and some layouts were hard to follow. Overall, though, I liked it.
This is another event book. It's a decent story if you want to give it a try, but you're not missing the story of the year of you skip it. And if you're worried about continuity, I'm sure you can find anything crucial online. Hell, we are quite a ways out from this now and they still haven't resolved some of the mysteries. I could take it or leave it.
March 13, 2021
7.
Entretenido. Estos cross-over con muchos personajes acostumbran a ser divertidos, y además este tiene algunos momentos que me han sorprendido.
Entretenido. Estos cross-over con muchos personajes acostumbran a ser divertidos, y además este tiene algunos momentos que me han sorprendido.
August 21, 2025
The premise for this book is very cool. The Watcher has been around for a long time, rarely interfering, and witnessing everything in Marvel comics. The idea that someone killed him and stole his eyes with his mysterious powers while every hero in Marvel comics is a suspect is really intriguing. Basically like a violent marvel murder mystery. The reveal after issue three was excellent. The idea that of each of your favorite Marvel characters having skeletons in their closet should makes great opportunities for shock and drama. Literally, the villain released a truth bomb on all of the characters using the Watcher’s eyeballs. Instead, only some of the truths are actually impactful.
The book doesn’t quite focus on the mystery of everything either. Once you hit issue four, you kinda know who the killer was. Then the killer keeps dropping truth bombs with no context. So he’d whisper a truth to powerful marvel characters and immediately defeat them, but you wouldn’t know what that truth was. Some had payoffs I had to google, and truthfully didn’t have much impact on the characters even after I googled them.
Overall this is a good idea not quite executed well. The art is very solid, and it still kept me interested all the way through. I don’t think reading the companion to find out what all the sins are is worth it. It’s probably best to just pick a character you like and read their tie-in issues instead. I was excited to read this, and as a marvel fan I enjoyed the story for what it turned out to be.
The book doesn’t quite focus on the mystery of everything either. Once you hit issue four, you kinda know who the killer was. Then the killer keeps dropping truth bombs with no context. So he’d whisper a truth to powerful marvel characters and immediately defeat them, but you wouldn’t know what that truth was. Some had payoffs I had to google, and truthfully didn’t have much impact on the characters even after I googled them.
Overall this is a good idea not quite executed well. The art is very solid, and it still kept me interested all the way through. I don’t think reading the companion to find out what all the sins are is worth it. It’s probably best to just pick a character you like and read their tie-in issues instead. I was excited to read this, and as a marvel fan I enjoyed the story for what it turned out to be.
November 2, 2025
I remember when I was in high school I really liked Jason Aaron's work. I especially liked that he returned to the intergalactic aspects of Thor that have been a part of the character since his first appearance. But reading Original Sin was shocking since he seemed to have such little comprehension of any of the other characters. All of these people who know each other and have been allies fight because they don't want to take ten seconds to explain anything. The conflicts are so contrived that it could drive one insane. Even more aggravating is the fact that Aaron seemingly doesn't know what any character's relationship to anyone else is. Everyone serves a single, plot-specific purpose before they are discarded so that Aaron can focus on another character, one whom he is equally careless about. One thing that sticks out to me is the use of the Hulk in this story. Hulk is supposed to have gone on a rampage against Tony Stark, but somehow Nick Fury convinces him to pull guard duty for a few pages. Why not use Luke Cage? He's in every single splash page in this book, but I don't think he has a single line of dialogue! I don't know how much I'd mind it if the basis of this story wasn't Marvel's pre-existing lore and the relationships between characters; the central figures are Uatu the Watcher and the original Nick Fury, two characters only serious comic fans knew about until very recently. It's a disappointing read and only really matters in the context of Jonathan Hickman's amazing work on Avengers.
May 17, 2025
NICK FURY GOES ALL "MEN IN BLACK" WITH AN INTERDIMENSIONAL SNIPER RIFLE!!!
Not kidding. That's the actual plot. Sounds like the chorus to a Misfits song (b-side) or an upcoming Nicholas Cage film.
I rather enjoyed this until the end of Original Sin #2 when the Orb was revealed. EW! As if a peewee league villain with zero entertainment value wasn't nauseating enough, enter Nick Fury: the geriatric, homicidal Tommy Lee Jones without a whimsical Will Smith for plot buoyancy. I haven't dry heaved this much since I watched Atlantic Rim.
I feel for the artist(s) who got hosed on this series. While the art was on point, the plot was pieced together with shredder scraps from the Twilight Zone.
Strangely, the writing wasn't ALL bad. Imagine if Charles Dickens wrote an obituary for the Green River Killer. Vibrant imagery, but still gross.
Don't spend money on this. Borrow it if you must. Save yourself A LOT of eye rolling. Just re-read my first sentence and move on.
The lead-ins, Point One #1 and Original Sin #0 were written by Ed Brubaker and Mark Waid, respectively. Which is probably why the rest of the story gradually slid into a burning dumpster following those issues.
I can't unread this. Two stars.
Not kidding. That's the actual plot. Sounds like the chorus to a Misfits song (b-side) or an upcoming Nicholas Cage film.
I rather enjoyed this until the end of Original Sin #2 when the Orb was revealed. EW! As if a peewee league villain with zero entertainment value wasn't nauseating enough, enter Nick Fury: the geriatric, homicidal Tommy Lee Jones without a whimsical Will Smith for plot buoyancy. I haven't dry heaved this much since I watched Atlantic Rim.
I feel for the artist(s) who got hosed on this series. While the art was on point, the plot was pieced together with shredder scraps from the Twilight Zone.
Strangely, the writing wasn't ALL bad. Imagine if Charles Dickens wrote an obituary for the Green River Killer. Vibrant imagery, but still gross.
Don't spend money on this. Borrow it if you must. Save yourself A LOT of eye rolling. Just re-read my first sentence and move on.
The lead-ins, Point One #1 and Original Sin #0 were written by Ed Brubaker and Mark Waid, respectively. Which is probably why the rest of the story gradually slid into a burning dumpster following those issues.
I can't unread this. Two stars.
May 21, 2021
I originally started this comic as a teenager in 2014 because the comic book store employee told me it was the perfect place for brand new readers to start. Dear reader it is not. I got very frustrated with myself while reading. I never finished it and never read another comic. I decided to try it again and thanks to what I know from the mcu I was able to follow along much better. Still I would say even with that, this was not the best place to start reading the comics.
Besides that, I thought it was entertaining. The story had enough of a hook it kept me curious enough that I came back to it years later but the execution was just okay. I felt like there wasn’t enough focus and in general the narrative flow was very choppy. I mostly just liked seeing all the characters interact with each other and I just wanted to see the outcome for curiosity’s sake.
Besides that, I thought it was entertaining. The story had enough of a hook it kept me curious enough that I came back to it years later but the execution was just okay. I felt like there wasn’t enough focus and in general the narrative flow was very choppy. I mostly just liked seeing all the characters interact with each other and I just wanted to see the outcome for curiosity’s sake.
July 31, 2022
This is surprisingly good for an "event" in that it features a relatively small cast and isn't about saving the earth/galaxy/universe which makes it relatively easy to follow.
The art is consistent and suitably dark/eerie - especially the eyeball villain. The only issue is some characters are hard to tell apart eg winter soldier and nick fury and the villain, Midas, looks like the "thing" throughout.
My only real gripe is that while a big deal is made of revealing characters' "original sin", nothing is made of them beyond characters being angry and Thor experiencing a major change (my reason for reading). I get the impression these are explored in various tie-in titles but it's a very odd choice indeed to leave the most impactful element of the story unexplored. It would be like the secret invasion storyline not bothering to mention which heroes were actually skrulls.
The art is consistent and suitably dark/eerie - especially the eyeball villain. The only issue is some characters are hard to tell apart eg winter soldier and nick fury and the villain, Midas, looks like the "thing" throughout.
My only real gripe is that while a big deal is made of revealing characters' "original sin", nothing is made of them beyond characters being angry and Thor experiencing a major change (my reason for reading). I get the impression these are explored in various tie-in titles but it's a very odd choice indeed to leave the most impactful element of the story unexplored. It would be like the secret invasion storyline not bothering to mention which heroes were actually skrulls.
February 21, 2022
The pacing was very good, which is hard for an event book to achieve, and I remained engaged from beginning to end. The ending was a bit confusing and didn’t bother to explain what led to some of the final results, which may very well be explored in tie-ins and other ongoing books, but led to this limited series being somewhat disappointing. I definitely get the sense that the ripple effects are more interesting than the event itself. The art is serviceable but it’s apparent that it is comprised of finishes over digital models, which was hard to ignore. I’ve seen this technique with much worse results (Elektra in The Scorpio Key), but it’s nevertheless distracting. No matter how dynamic the layout or poses, the figures carried a sense of stiffness.
August 13, 2024
8/10:
Way too many characters are involved in these 9 issues, but a lot of them are truly justified. The murder of Uatu and subsequent investigation led by Nick Fury is really engaging and leads to so much of the world being opened up. The Orb becomes a character that I actually want to see more from, Winter Soldier is set on an interesting new path, Thor is deemed unworthy of Mjolnir, Nick fury takes on the identity of The Unseen, and so much more!
I’m sure I’ll read more tie-ins and aftermaths of this massive crossover event, but for now, I’m focusing on the title of Thor changing hands with Thor (2014).
Way too many characters are involved in these 9 issues, but a lot of them are truly justified. The murder of Uatu and subsequent investigation led by Nick Fury is really engaging and leads to so much of the world being opened up. The Orb becomes a character that I actually want to see more from, Winter Soldier is set on an interesting new path, Thor is deemed unworthy of Mjolnir, Nick fury takes on the identity of The Unseen, and so much more!
I’m sure I’ll read more tie-ins and aftermaths of this massive crossover event, but for now, I’m focusing on the title of Thor changing hands with Thor (2014).
December 14, 2025
This is probably 2.5 stars rounded down. It does feel a little harsh. I like Jason Aaron as a writer (I had just finished his Wolverine and the X-Men run before this, which I really enjoyed), and there was some good setup here, I just feel like it nearly all fell flat in the end. The main twists were quite obvious, at least to me, and I just think it didn’t make enough of its intriguing premise. There were some good moments, including the way that issues with Thor resolve and the interactions between some characters that we don’t often see together, such as Dr Strange and the Punisher, but I finished this feeling it was all a bit anti climactic.
November 2, 2016
This event was disappointing to me, and yet still pretty interesting. I guess I like the overall storyline, but don't know if I feel it is a true capital-E "Event". I have the Bucky Barnes title that is post-original sin and I am very excited to see how that goes. I like Nick Fury, and he was very centered in this particular title and we got to see more of his personality and beliefs (although for a super-spy they have always been pretty obvious - he will do anything for his country and planet). I hope he is still around in future titles.
April 15, 2022
Una macrosaga más de las que anualmente (o menos) plagan los universos superheroicos. Ni mejor ni peor que otras. Alguien ha matado al Vigilante y la retroalimentación de su sabiduría repercute por todo el universo Marvel. Estructurada como un whodunnit clásico,la necesidad de crear episodios que se completen en las series regulares lastra el rituro y aburre, además de crear una fragmentación insatisfactoria.
Solo lobby porque estaba siguiendo la serie regular de Thor y quería saber como se volvió indigas de Mjolnir.
Solo lobby porque estaba siguiendo la serie regular de Thor y quería saber como se volvió indigas de Mjolnir.
May 11, 2025
Fin troppo spesso, alla Marvel pensano che distruggere un proprio IP retconnandolo a tradimento sia una buona idea.
Mo' tocca a Nick Fury, rovinato da questa saga al punto da fare desiderare la versione 'Jackson'. Un personaggio che ci aveva accompagnato, con la sua grinta, la sua sagacia e quel ruvido cinismo che era il suo marchio di fabbrica, nel corso dei decenni. Nick Fury era una colonna, e ne hanno fatto un folle assassino di tal schiatta da far sembrare IL PUNITORE quello moderato e ROCKET un fiore di campo.
Zeus Zeus, che schifo!
Mo' tocca a Nick Fury, rovinato da questa saga al punto da fare desiderare la versione 'Jackson'. Un personaggio che ci aveva accompagnato, con la sua grinta, la sua sagacia e quel ruvido cinismo che era il suo marchio di fabbrica, nel corso dei decenni. Nick Fury era una colonna, e ne hanno fatto un folle assassino di tal schiatta da far sembrare IL PUNITORE quello moderato e ROCKET un fiore di campo.
Zeus Zeus, che schifo!
November 10, 2025
I decided to re-read this as I'm currently working my way through Jason Aaron's Thor and there is a big status quo change for Thor in this series, plus I'd forgotten most of what happened anyway.
It's a pretty decent whodunnit and it was nice to see certain characters interact who (maybe) hadn't in the past.
Not a great deal to say about it to be honest. It didn't affect many characters going forward, except for Nick Fury and Thor (which is strange as he's barely in it!) but it was fun and had great art and layouts from Deodato jr.
Now back to Thor!
It's a pretty decent whodunnit and it was nice to see certain characters interact who (maybe) hadn't in the past.
Not a great deal to say about it to be honest. It didn't affect many characters going forward, except for Nick Fury and Thor (which is strange as he's barely in it!) but it was fun and had great art and layouts from Deodato jr.
Now back to Thor!
June 20, 2022
Not a terribly written story, I wasn’t bored while reading it, but this is probably one of the more forgettable Marvel events of the past decade. I feel like it says something about the staying power of this book that the only real thing that people remember about it is that it’s the story where Thor becomes unworthy. Everything else is just kinda blah. I loved the art though, Mike Deodato brought his A game for this!
July 10, 2022
I read this to find out just what caused Thor to feel unworthy, to the point where he could no longer pick up his hammer. The story was pretty good, vast and cosmic and epic, although pretty grim and bloody and violent as well. The artwork was fine, but not quite my cuppa tea; a bit dark and too sectioned into tiny panels. Nonetheless, this was pretty cool stuff.
November 1, 2023
Not what I expected
Starts off with an interesting cast of characters. Moves quickly to a murder mystery of unprecedented power. I did not see this story coming from Mr. Brubaker, but it was well written. Artwork is fantastic as always from these guys. Thank you for a lively tale.
Starts off with an interesting cast of characters. Moves quickly to a murder mystery of unprecedented power. I did not see this story coming from Mr. Brubaker, but it was well written. Artwork is fantastic as always from these guys. Thank you for a lively tale.
December 28, 2024
It started off promisingly however towards the middle it pattered off and then again picked up towards the end. It's a good read with really nice artwork.
Feel sorry for Thor as he is depicted unbelievably vulnerable and even loses his power to lift the hammer just because of a secret being whispered to him.
Feel sorry for Thor as he is depicted unbelievably vulnerable and even loses his power to lift the hammer just because of a secret being whispered to him.
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