The Sentry: Legacy

The Sentry (2023) #1-4

by Jason Loo, Luigi Zagaria (artist), David J. Cutler (artist)

Collects Sentry (2023) #1-4.

Who will be the new Sentry? The one-time Avenger is dead, but ordinary people all over the world are suddenly manifesting his incredible powers and experiencing snippets of Bob Reynolds' memories. Will one of them survive long enough to emerge as the new Sentry? Or will their awesome power destroy them? When Misty Knight and Jessica Jones cross paths in search of answers, they open an investigation that will change everything you think you know about the Sentry! As more people begin manifesting Sentry's powers, it's all Misty and Jessica can do to keep track of the incidents, let alone discover any connections between them. Meanwhile, each new Sentry must reckon with their newfound abilities - and, unfortunately, one of them isn't a team player.

Genres: Comics, Graphic Novels, Marvel, Graphic Novels Comics

112 pages, Kindle Edition

Published August 21, 2024

Reviews

[Paul · Rating 3 out of 5]

While I’m not hugely invested in the Sentry as a character (I don’t think Marvel needs a Superman, personally) I enjoyed this legacy book.

It’s difficult to say what exactly I liked and disliked about this book without major spoilers but suffice it to say I really like the character that turns out to be the last one standing at the end of the book and I liked the new status quo we’re left with at the end of the book.

I didn’t like how Dr. Strange was treated by Misty Knight and Jessica Jones in his cameo, particularly because Clea was just as much at fault as he was but she got a free pass for some reason. Girl power, I guess? This is the second book in which this has happened (the first was in the new Captain Marvel book) and it has me perplexed.

[Anna Quilter · Rating 3 out of 5]

Nice to see Jessica Jones involved in the next chapter of The Sentry.
Readable and not too heavy..I like the concept of multiple Sentries...which by the conclusion of this seemed unlikely to happen.

[Matteo Mazzotta · Rating 2 out of 5]

i need to start doing a little more research before going “wow! character i like!” and buying a book

[Guilherme Smee · Rating 4 out of 5]

O Sentinela, um dos super-homens da Marvel, foi morto por Knull durante a saga O Rei das Trevas, estrelada por Venom. Nesse meio tempo sua energia foi manipulada por necromantes inimigos do Doutor Estranho e perdida pelo mundo. Agora que ela está dispersa, algumas pessoas comuns passaram a manifestar os poderes do herói. Isso desenvolverá uma corrida por poder, que pode acabar com a morte dos novos superpoderosos, algo que Jessica Jones e Misty Knight estão dispostas a investigar. A história é bastante divertida e intrigante, mas lá pelas tentas Jessica e Misty parecem desimportantes para a trama, mesmo tendo sido bem trabalhadas no começo. É interessante também como Loo desenvolve a relação dos poderes com uma personagem com deficiência. Os desenhos da minissérie não são lá essas coisas. Pensei que essa mini serviria para adaptar o personagem Sentinela para a versão do filme do MCU, em Thunderbolts, mas estava errado, o direcionamento acaba sendo outro. A ver quanto tempo a Marvel vai demorar pra readaptar o personagem para linkar ele com a versão dos cinemas.

[Marcus · Rating 3 out of 5]

I think this mini series is a good example of a fantastic premise with not enough time to cook. The idea of seemingly random people getting aspects of the currently deceased Sentry’s powers and learning how to use them is pretty cool. This being just 4 issues though didn’t give enough time to delve into the characters introduced here, they remained fairly surface level from beginning to end.

That being said some good artwork and cool action here and I was happy with who ultimately takes up Bob Reynold’s legacy

[Joey Nardinelli · Rating 4 out of 5]

I expected this to be bad but it actually was pretty decent. I mostly know The Sentry and Bob for his appearances in several of the crossover event comics like Siege and The King in Black. As such, he’s not a very near-and-dear character to me despite my liking his riff on a very flawed Superman-like character. And while I don’t think I’m super familiar with Misty Knight, I know Jessica Jones well enough and think Mallory could be an interesting new Sentry-like character going forward (I tend to prefer a new character to constantly rebooting the exact same character). I’m not at all sure I needed to read this, but that I could engage with it seems like plenty of success for this GN. Pretty brutal to introduce a bunch of other characters, including a single mom, and murder them all off just to get the story told though!

[Tyler Jenkins · Rating 4 out of 5]

I really liked this series. Sentry was always such an interesting character to me. Always called “Marvel’s Superman” but he was so much more than that. Having his powers split and giving us a bunch of new candidates for his successor was cool. I’m sure many people will hate that the white blond boy was the villain. Very excited to learn more about our next Sentry, a brand new hero for Marvel calling herself “Solarus”.

[Derek · Rating 5 out of 5]

I have always loved the idea of The Sentry. Being a person living with mental illness and my own version of The Void who shows up to mess with me, I see myself in a conflicted dude who ends up with omega level powers. He's me. But I just haven't gotten my superpowers yet. 😊

So this book, depicting a new version of the Sentry in a person managing living with a disability and trying to use their powers to make the world a better place hit pretty hard. I really liked this.

[Andrew · Rating 3 out of 5]

Needed more Jessica Jones.

[Eva B. · Rating 4 out of 5]

Closer to a 3.5--I think four issues was not enough and it would've worked better as a slower burn mystery, maybe drawing out the Ryan reveal. Hell, even a miniseries like the original Sentry comic would have given it a lot more depth and would've alleviated a lot of the criticism this comic receives. Well, except for that one, but we'll get to the awful way people talk about Mallory later. And yes, in this house we like Mallory Gibbs! Even though so many people seem to hate her and the Sentry subreddit bitches about her whenever she's mentioned! And before the guy going onto positive reviews of this comic to harass people who like it says anything: I GUARANTEE I like Bob more than you do. YOU are locked in here with ME.

I am considerably more fond of legacy characters than most comic readers seem to be, so I didn't have the knee-jerk negative reaction to Bob's powers being dispersed like some places *cough* the Sentry subreddit *cough*, and I think this did a great job introducing likable potential Sentries and then not magically resurrecting them at the end, giving some good stakes. We may have only known the other Sentries for a few pages, but their deaths hurt! I also love any chance to see Jessica Jones in action. I hope that Mallory shows up more in the future--the backlash she received was so fucking stupid. Maybe I'm a bit too attached to this one because I have a cousin with cerebral palsy so it makes me happy to see a superhero with it in a comic, but soooo much of the hate she gets boils down to "I don't like that Sentry's powers went to a disabled Black woman". You can hate that Sentry got killed off! I don't like that he got killed off in some Venom book either! But lashing out at a character and acting like Knull killing Sentry was some scheme to replace him with a more diverse character is dumb as FUCK and yet somehow a fairly common talking point. "Why is she in a wheelchair when she has superpowers?" BECAUSE POWERS DON'T SOLVE EVERYTHING YOU DIPSHITS, READ A FUCKING SENTRY COMIC!!!!! Sentry has been an allegory for disability from the beginning! Of all the characters to get ableist about, you're choosing SENTRY?! Famously mentally stable and sober Sentry lmao. Mallory doesn't even GO by Sentry by the end of the book, but based on how people talk about her you'd think she dug up Bob's corpse to piss on it and laugh. She's cool. I think she and Bob would be friends. Hope she shows up again in the future, maybe bring Ryan back into it as her Void (or have her Void be one of the now-retconned origins of the Void!).

[Chris Lemmerman · Rating 3 out of 5]

The Sentry has died...a few times at this point, but it seems to have stuck for a while. Until now, when his powers begin manifesting around the US in random civilians. Of course, not everyone blessed with superpowers is going to use them for good, and it falls to Jessica Jones and Misty Knight to track all of Bob Reynolds' powers down before something REALLY bad happens.

I actually enjoyed this quite a bit. Considering the only really established characters play a supporting role, it's tough to sell new characters in just four issues, but villain Ryan and hero Mallory both hit surprisingly well in a short time. Jason Loo draws on some fun continuity pulls for the Sentry himself, as well as the ultimate revelation about how this all started. It's a solid little story, and I'm curious to see if it gets picked up anywhere else.

The art's more of a mixed bag. Luigi Zigaria's art isn't bad, but it doesn't really have that special something that elevates it to a level above okay. The design work for the Sentries is neat, but even that seems to have been a result of the writer rather than the artist, going by the back matter in the trade.

I'm surprised Marvel didn't revive the original Sentry in time for Thunderbolts*, but this was a good distraction in the meantime.

[Ross · Rating 3 out of 5]

The Sentry is dead...
..long live the Sentry!

Seemingly random people are experiencing explosive new powers that endanger the world around them. The power signature is the same as the (extremely comic writer messed up) Sentry. Misty Knight is sent out by the Aberrant Crimes Division to track down these new powered ...people?

One of these new Sentry's is not like the others. First there were six. That became 5. Then there were 4. Is there room for a TEAM of Sentry(ies)?

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Bonus: Best idea for a character reset.
Bonus Bonus: There's even a name change at some point...check it out
BONUS^3: Cerebral Palsy and super heroics? That's new.

[David Craig · Rating 3 out of 5]

Kind of a weird story, not really sure what the point of it was or why it happened, but it was fine enough!

[B · Rating 3 out of 5]

the Sentry is too big to be a character.

[Brie · Rating 2 out of 5]

no Bob what the heck

[Atzimba L · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5

[harmony · Rating 2 out of 5]

Sentry died, nobody will be the new Sentry. They defeated Ryan with the “power of friendship!”

[Shoshanah · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5

[Mateusz Nowowiejski · Rating 3 out of 5]

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