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Siege (2015) #1-4
Siege: Battleworld
Collects Siege (2015) #1-4, Uncanny X-Men (2011) #9-10.
They can't ever win. They can't afford to lose. Together they stand on the Shield — the wall that stretches around Battleworld, protecting the more civilized domains from the dead lands filled with zombies, Ultrons and the Annihilation Wave. Anyone who crosses Lord Doom gets sent to the Shield, where Commander Abigail Brand and her unlikely allies — including Ms. America, the bowslinger Lady Katherine, Kang, Leah, the Endless Summers and Leonardo da Vinci — will fight to the death to keep their planet safe. And they'll have to do exactly that, because the Shield is about to come under siege like never before. And if the Shield falls, so too will Battleworld. Plus: Abigail Brand, the X-Men and Avengers face the uncanny threat of Unit, the galactic genocidal fugitive!
They can't ever win. They can't afford to lose. Together they stand on the Shield — the wall that stretches around Battleworld, protecting the more civilized domains from the dead lands filled with zombies, Ultrons and the Annihilation Wave. Anyone who crosses Lord Doom gets sent to the Shield, where Commander Abigail Brand and her unlikely allies — including Ms. America, the bowslinger Lady Katherine, Kang, Leah, the Endless Summers and Leonardo da Vinci — will fight to the death to keep their planet safe. And they'll have to do exactly that, because the Shield is about to come under siege like never before. And if the Shield falls, so too will Battleworld. Plus: Abigail Brand, the X-Men and Avengers face the uncanny threat of Unit, the galactic genocidal fugitive!
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First published February 16, 2016
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October 11, 2015
This turned out to be one of my favourite Secret Wars tie-ins. Gillen manages to tie in very well with the main series and status quo, while at the same time giving a nice cap off to some of his Marvel work. His good marvel work as well like Journey into Mystery and Young Avengers. Main characters include Abigail Brand, Kate Bishop (from 1602) and Leah. It's a good book for fans of Gillens marvel stuff, and helps me forgive him for his run on Iron Man.
November 5, 2024
Yeah baby you said it - gimme more Abigail Brand. There's a character who hasn't been nearly used enough to my liking.
She's sarcastic:
And draws those around her who share that sarcastic gene:
And in the face of the kinds of unwinnable fights they're facing, it's only natural:
This is exactly the setting where Abigail does her best work - and it sure doesn't hurt Kieron Gillen's chances either. I just want to gorge myself on this endless fun.
Even when it's endlessly, depressingly never-going-to-end-battles "fun":
This is at the same time a desolate, depressing book *AND* a funny, sardonic, engaging ride. And one worth looking at closely. While the Andrade art looks rushed - or at least stylistically "open" - the double-page spreads by guest artists are horrifying in their detail of the monsters beyond the Wall:
Gillen and Andrade work in a ton of subtle cameos and references, without making it too obvious or deadening who's there or why. Just happens to increase the fun factor for me, who's followed so much of this over the years.
Nice touch:
Best part of this book? The hope that some small measure of its outcome feeds back into the parent Secret Wars story.
That would be something at least.
April 28, 2016
A ton of really interesting ideas and characters that never quite come together into a smooth plot. Maybe there should have been five issues instead of four. Or maybe Gillen should have reigned in his ideas a bit more and let the story develop. I was mostly enjoying it as I read, because there was so much cool stuff going on all the time. But when I finished the book, I couldn't help but think, "Is that it?"
November 10, 2015
In the old days, crossover events were a way of killing off big name characters in the Marvel or DC universe. We're all rather more metafictional now - not to mention cynical about character death - so Secret Wars is the first crossover where a farewell to creators is a big part of the draw. Jonathan Hickman, Kelly Sue DeConnick, and Rick Remender have all used the event as a great jumping off point for old writers, and Kieron Gillen joins them, leaving the Marvel Universe (for now) with a darkly comic romp around characters and themes from across his Marvel career. It's the most enjoyable work leaving do you'll have read for a while, and fans of Young Avengers, SWORD, Journey Into Mystery, Uncanny X-Men et al should give it a look.
Does Siege work if you never read any Gillen Marvel U comics? Honestly, I've no idea. Gillen's early-10s generation at Marvel were all about bringing indie comics, web comics and fan sensibilities into the corporate giant's orbit, for mutual artistic benefit. The fantastic double-page spreads of insane hero/robot/zombie conflict are this ethos at its productive best. So at least that's something for those who don't feel they were ever in the gang. And it's a good story too, I think - time-travel, jokes, doomed romance, team-ups. Who wouldn't want that from a crossover? Gillen started in the Marvel U hanging round the fringes of events, pulling at threads and building nests from what came loose. He ends as he began. A job well done.
Does Siege work if you never read any Gillen Marvel U comics? Honestly, I've no idea. Gillen's early-10s generation at Marvel were all about bringing indie comics, web comics and fan sensibilities into the corporate giant's orbit, for mutual artistic benefit. The fantastic double-page spreads of insane hero/robot/zombie conflict are this ethos at its productive best. So at least that's something for those who don't feel they were ever in the gang. And it's a good story too, I think - time-travel, jokes, doomed romance, team-ups. Who wouldn't want that from a crossover? Gillen started in the Marvel U hanging round the fringes of events, pulling at threads and building nests from what came loose. He ends as he began. A job well done.
September 6, 2017
The Best Secret Wars tie-in so far. With a decent story and excellent art.
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October 9, 2015Kieron Gillen, writer of many of the finest Marvel comics of recent years, bids their universe adieu with a victory lap of some of the characters he most enjoyed writing - America Chavez, Cyclops, Abigail Brand, Unit, Leah...plus a few toys he never got chance to play with before. They're all chucked into a Night's Watch situation, manning a great wall against the horrors which threaten the whole 'civilised' world, many of whose attacks we see in glorious spreads by guest artists ranging from James Stokoe to Billy the Sink. Gillen has called the book 'Nextwave as a tragedy'; even if the ending wasn't quite so bleak as the foreboding of earlier issues suggested, that's a fair summary. It can be read without following the main Secret Wars book, which is handy, because I still haven't read that, and it has now spoilered itself through sheer lateness (shockingly, the Marvel multiverse has been reborn!). And in amongst all the ONLY WAR, it still finds time for a food conversation which knows that the only use for parsnips is as a punchline. A worthy farewell.
August 4, 2019
Not a big fan kind of a slog to get through. I heard this was an essential tie in and i disagree wish i would of skipped this tie in.
April 16, 2016
A lot of the Secret Wars tie-ins riff on well-known/popular past Marvel events/storylines - Age of Apocalypse, Civil War, House of M, Korvac Saga, etc. - but Siege doesn’t really have anything to do with Brian Bendis’ Siege book from nearly 10 years ago. That one was about Norman Osborn’s Dark Avengers battling Thor and co. when Asgard was floating above Oklahoma. This one is about Abigail Brand defending the Shield (a big wall) from waves of monsters who want to kill Doom.
It’s a pretty dreary read. Waves of monsters attacking the wall, being repelled, blah blah blah - you already know how the wall falls if you’ve read Secret Wars, but it’s shown here again. Basically the siege is pointless. I’m still not sure how Ben Grimm became the Shield itself but it’s mentioned that he doesn’t make up with whole wall so why didn’t the attackers focus on the non-Thing parts of the Shield?
Besides the tedium of repetitively seeing forces attack/repel, there are some pointless storylines like Kang time-travelling, two robots in love, and Leonardo and Michelangelo, the Architects of Forever, pooling their genius to… make a big gun. That shoots big. Bang. Real smart, fellas.
Kieron Gillen uses this miniseries to high-five the characters he’s written about for the last few years from Abigail Brand (Uncanny X-Men) to Leah of Hel (Journey Into Mystery) to Ms. America (Young Avengers) - er, yay? Brand was such an annoying character though, complaining and acting like a petulant teen half-wit most of the time, monotonously narrating the supposedly exciting events.
Some of the splash page art is interesting and it’s cool seeing the Summers clones’ giant optic blasts, though the main art is pretty terrible and blotchy. About the only great moment in the story is when Thanos is getting the Thing worked up and asks him “What time is it, Ben Grimm? WHAT TIME IS IT?” (you know his catchphrase). So. Awesome.
The last couple pages of the story almost sound like Gillen making excuses for writing this crappy comic, like he got roped into throwing something together for Secret Wars and got this bag of nonsense from Marvel Editorial to make something of: “I did what I could with what I was given… And fuck you if you think you could have done any better… Make your own mistakes.”
And that’s Battleworld: Siege - an excuse for a bad comic.
It’s a pretty dreary read. Waves of monsters attacking the wall, being repelled, blah blah blah - you already know how the wall falls if you’ve read Secret Wars, but it’s shown here again. Basically the siege is pointless. I’m still not sure how Ben Grimm became the Shield itself but it’s mentioned that he doesn’t make up with whole wall so why didn’t the attackers focus on the non-Thing parts of the Shield?
Besides the tedium of repetitively seeing forces attack/repel, there are some pointless storylines like Kang time-travelling, two robots in love, and Leonardo and Michelangelo, the Architects of Forever, pooling their genius to… make a big gun. That shoots big. Bang. Real smart, fellas.
Kieron Gillen uses this miniseries to high-five the characters he’s written about for the last few years from Abigail Brand (Uncanny X-Men) to Leah of Hel (Journey Into Mystery) to Ms. America (Young Avengers) - er, yay? Brand was such an annoying character though, complaining and acting like a petulant teen half-wit most of the time, monotonously narrating the supposedly exciting events.
Some of the splash page art is interesting and it’s cool seeing the Summers clones’ giant optic blasts, though the main art is pretty terrible and blotchy. About the only great moment in the story is when Thanos is getting the Thing worked up and asks him “What time is it, Ben Grimm? WHAT TIME IS IT?” (you know his catchphrase). So. Awesome.
The last couple pages of the story almost sound like Gillen making excuses for writing this crappy comic, like he got roped into throwing something together for Secret Wars and got this bag of nonsense from Marvel Editorial to make something of: “I did what I could with what I was given… And fuck you if you think you could have done any better… Make your own mistakes.”
And that’s Battleworld: Siege - an excuse for a bad comic.
August 12, 2021
Jak dotąd najgorszy tytuł z całej oferty Egmontu w ramach wydarzenia Tajne Wojny.
Świat Bitewny po ostatecznej inkursji został stworzony przez Dr. Dooma, który panuje nad nim jako nowy Bóg. Dziesiątki nowych terytoriów od swoistej ziemi niczyjej oddziela Mur. Szkopuł w tym, że za tym murem Doom zrzucał każdego kto nie pasował do jego wizji świata. Mamy tu więc Falę Anihilacji, Ultronów i... zombie. Obroną przed tym zagrożeniem kieruje Abigail Brand, była szefowa SWORD. Jak dotąd wszystko idzie po jej myśli. Jak dotąd.
Bowiem okazuje się, że do Muru zbliża się nie kto inny jak sam Thanos, a wizje przyszłości w wykonaniu Kanga (tak tego Kanga) są więcej niż pesymistyczne. Zaczyna się przygotowanie i liczenie sił. Ben Grim, który pełni tu nietypową rolę. Summersowi. Leah, która z Iliyaną ma tutaj wprawdzie mało miejsca, ale jak już są to kradną show. Gillen nie odkrywa tu Ameryki. Zamiast akcji mamy tu sporo pogadanek i nie było by w tym nic złego, ale dialogowo jest tutaj słabo.
Andrade prezentuje nam kreskę, która nie przypadła mi do gustu. Miejscami wygląda bardzo słabo, jak sceny batalistyczne i to bardziej zasługa kolorów niż szczegółowości plansz. Niejako na otarcie łez dostajemy dwa zeszyty Uncanny X-Men, które są kilkoma rzeczami powiązane z Siege (Unit, Brand). Nie jest to złe rozwiązanie, ale ja nie lubię zaczynać lektury od środka danej serii.
Reasumując. Tytuł średni, nie dający mi takiej zabawy, jaką mógłbym się spodziewać. Nieco szkoda, bo te dwa odrębne zeszyty są całkiem niezłe, ale pochylę się nad nimi, kiedy będę czytał tą serię. Samodzielnie Siege nie jest atrakcyjną pozycją.
Świat Bitewny po ostatecznej inkursji został stworzony przez Dr. Dooma, który panuje nad nim jako nowy Bóg. Dziesiątki nowych terytoriów od swoistej ziemi niczyjej oddziela Mur. Szkopuł w tym, że za tym murem Doom zrzucał każdego kto nie pasował do jego wizji świata. Mamy tu więc Falę Anihilacji, Ultronów i... zombie. Obroną przed tym zagrożeniem kieruje Abigail Brand, była szefowa SWORD. Jak dotąd wszystko idzie po jej myśli. Jak dotąd.
Bowiem okazuje się, że do Muru zbliża się nie kto inny jak sam Thanos, a wizje przyszłości w wykonaniu Kanga (tak tego Kanga) są więcej niż pesymistyczne. Zaczyna się przygotowanie i liczenie sił. Ben Grim, który pełni tu nietypową rolę. Summersowi. Leah, która z Iliyaną ma tutaj wprawdzie mało miejsca, ale jak już są to kradną show. Gillen nie odkrywa tu Ameryki. Zamiast akcji mamy tu sporo pogadanek i nie było by w tym nic złego, ale dialogowo jest tutaj słabo.
Andrade prezentuje nam kreskę, która nie przypadła mi do gustu. Miejscami wygląda bardzo słabo, jak sceny batalistyczne i to bardziej zasługa kolorów niż szczegółowości plansz. Niejako na otarcie łez dostajemy dwa zeszyty Uncanny X-Men, które są kilkoma rzeczami powiązane z Siege (Unit, Brand). Nie jest to złe rozwiązanie, ale ja nie lubię zaczynać lektury od środka danej serii.
Reasumując. Tytuł średni, nie dający mi takiej zabawy, jaką mógłbym się spodziewać. Nieco szkoda, bo te dwa odrębne zeszyty są całkiem niezłe, ale pochylę się nad nimi, kiedy będę czytał tą serię. Samodzielnie Siege nie jest atrakcyjną pozycją.
September 26, 2018
Things are speeding towards the end and this documents the last day of the Ice Wal....erhm I mean, the Shield.
This book is heavily tied into the Secret Wars event. In fact every last page is a replication of Hickman's trick of a stark white page with a single phrase on it and a grayed out symbol in the background. It works when Hickman does it, and Gillen uses its to great effect.
At the end of every issue, we are told that the shield will fall. And the book is basically the last days of the shield from the perspective of the leader of the shield guard, Agent Brand.
For a book that is only four issues, there is a ton here to appreciate. From the interesting characters and the development and arcs that they go through, the beautiful two page spreads drawn by guest artists, the appearance of Thanos and the way the story intertwines with the main story, and more.
The only reason I didn't give it a higher score, is because the use of a "deus ex machina" of sorts called the "enlightenment cannon", which as you guessed it, is used on some crucial characters to turn the tide of the main end battle.
This is a fun book with great art. Recommended as one of the better tie in books of this event.
This book is heavily tied into the Secret Wars event. In fact every last page is a replication of Hickman's trick of a stark white page with a single phrase on it and a grayed out symbol in the background. It works when Hickman does it, and Gillen uses its to great effect.
At the end of every issue, we are told that the shield will fall. And the book is basically the last days of the shield from the perspective of the leader of the shield guard, Agent Brand.
For a book that is only four issues, there is a ton here to appreciate. From the interesting characters and the development and arcs that they go through, the beautiful two page spreads drawn by guest artists, the appearance of Thanos and the way the story intertwines with the main story, and more.
The only reason I didn't give it a higher score, is because the use of a "deus ex machina" of sorts called the "enlightenment cannon", which as you guessed it, is used on some crucial characters to turn the tide of the main end battle.
This is a fun book with great art. Recommended as one of the better tie in books of this event.
March 20, 2018
I'd heard this was a capstone to Gillen's Marvel work in a general sense. That isn't true in any real revelatory sense, but it does mash up some characters and themes he created/worked with. Abigail Brand is her typically acerbic self, Leah from Journey Into Mystery shows up, as do versions of America Chavez and Kate Bishop (the medieval Kate is seriously adorable, but I really wish they'd been shown to get together at the end). There was a lesbian couple in Leah and Magik, which was cool. The art was both painterly and very stylized, like Monet paining Aeon Flux. Thanos and Kang were both highlights. Probably the best thing about the book was all the larger-than-life high concept comic book ridiculosity. Such as "The Enlightenment Cannon" created by... what appeared to be a Vitruvian-Man style multi-armed Leonardo Da Vinci, and his ghostly ex-lover Michaelangelo? In any case, it shot enlightenment beams (complete with "ENLIGHTENMENT!" sound effects) and caused Zombies to question their own paradoxical nature, among other things. Gillen really was in fine form when it came to ideas like that, peppered throughout the book. All in all, great stuff.
September 20, 2020
This is a mixed bag. It's written by Kieron Gillen, who's usually good, and illustrated by Filipe Andrade, whose work I can't stand. Despite the cover design, this has nothing to do with the old Siege crossover. Instead it's about Abigail Brand and her team defending the Shield wall. Gillen tries to channel Jonathon Hickman, with the white pages and gray text, and clever ideas like a bunch of clones of Cyclops called the Endless Summers. Combining Nick Fury and the Fury is brilliant in a why-didn't-anyone-think-of-this-before kind of way. Gillen writes a good Thanos, much better than Aaron or Hickman. But all the good is offset by the awful art.
November 26, 2019
Gillen is capable of so much more. This book had a handful of interesting ideas that didn't come to fruition. Abigail Brand is your lead character and that in and of itself is an issue as she's terribly uninteresting. Add some random characters without background or motivation and you have a bizarre "team". Ben Grimm's story is the only one that's intriguing and that doesn't come until the very end. The art was subpar and made many panels hard to decipher. Overall, this book is why people dislike large scale crossovers.
November 17, 2018
Abigail is in charge of controlling the shield but learns that she only has 20 days until it fails. I found the characters very confusing but I was amused during the whole story. My favourite moment was probably reading .
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November 2, 2025Siege: Battleworld is silly, corny, and gay, but in just the right proportion that I found it endearing. I liked spending a few issues with an ultra-millennial Abigail Brand. I think if I gave this book to any of the gay friends I had as a teenager, they'd really like it.
May 16, 2017
Best alternate universe all-girls version I've witnessed in this huge series
October 9, 2017
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June 3, 2019
Secret Wars tie-in series showing events on Battleworld and the keepers of the Shield. Not up to Gillens usual standard in my opinion,more a filler to flesh out the Secret Wars event.
February 25, 2020
A story of the wall in Battleworld that divides the Badlands from another land and the fight to protect it
October 31, 2021
I really love Marvel and this TPB gave me the chance to remind me of great authors and illustrators. Really good! A bit philosophical.
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December 27, 2021shhhhh yes i read this whole thing for the background leah/illyana don't judge me
September 5, 2023
Kinda interesting, but I wasn’t a fan of the artwork.
November 7, 2024
It didn’t get interesting until Thanos showed up
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
January 9, 2026
2,5 - 01.2026
August 6, 2019
I kind of picked this up on a whim, not realizing it was a Secret Wars tie-in, but it was alright as a general other-dimension side story. Abigail Brand is the commander defending a big wall in an unending siege. If she fails, thousands of people die. If she succeeds... well, there is no lasting success.
There is a weird mix of sarcasm and depression in most of the characters that lends a nihilistic feeling to most of this volume. They know that, someday, they will probably fail, and they just want to get through another day. Unfortunately, that tone sort of leaks out of the volume and it largely ends up feeling pointless and unfinished. Which, as a tie-in to a larger event, it probably is, but it's a bit disappointing on its own.
The art is a bit of a mix, being fairly good considering the style the artist went for but being a questionable stylistic choice to begin with. Character designs are hit-or-miss and a few too many details get lost in many panels. The writing is exceptional in each panel, but the overall plot feels sort of arbitrary and incomplete. This wasn't a bad volume, but it really doesn't feel like... anything. It's got some nice panels, some cheeky characters, and that's about it.
There is a weird mix of sarcasm and depression in most of the characters that lends a nihilistic feeling to most of this volume. They know that, someday, they will probably fail, and they just want to get through another day. Unfortunately, that tone sort of leaks out of the volume and it largely ends up feeling pointless and unfinished. Which, as a tie-in to a larger event, it probably is, but it's a bit disappointing on its own.
The art is a bit of a mix, being fairly good considering the style the artist went for but being a questionable stylistic choice to begin with. Character designs are hit-or-miss and a few too many details get lost in many panels. The writing is exceptional in each panel, but the overall plot feels sort of arbitrary and incomplete. This wasn't a bad volume, but it really doesn't feel like... anything. It's got some nice panels, some cheeky characters, and that's about it.
March 4, 2017
Best (only really good?) Secret Wars tie-in.
April 26, 2021
I didn't expect much of this collection, but I was mistaken. This is one of the best Secret Wars tie-in miniseries and one that actually impacts on the overall story of that event.
Kieron Gillen delivers a compelling story within the conceit of Secret Wars' Battleworld, mixing and reinterpreting elements and characters of the standard Marvel universe in ways that put similar efforts from other writers to shame. A lot of that is based on puns and wordplay (Eardevil the Klawyer or Nick the Fury ("I kill superheroes!"); Galact-USA the Great Consumer), but it works (though I think the Fantastic Thors, as much as I like the idea, shouldn't have been in there, considering what Doom did with the FF and what the Siege story is actually about). Despite all this, the story is not a comedy.
The collection is buffed up by supplementing the four-issue Siege miniseries (which only shares its title with the Avengers-centric event of the same name (this one even states "Siege: it's about an actual siege")) with the two issues of Gillen's X-Men run that introduced the character of Unit, probably because a variation of that concept plays a major part in the mini. I liked those, too, but I didn't really think they belonged here. (My favourite line from this collection is found here, though: "The power of the two hyper-strong individuals is sufficient to pacify Xemnu via extreme deployment of kinetic energy.")
The art is very good in my opinion, with the interesting choice of having different artists do double-page spreads when the besieged Shield gets attacked by the different forces that threaten the rest of Battleworld, instead of showing pages and pages of fights.
This book requires a certain understanding of the Marvel Universe - and ideally of the Secret Wars event - to fully enjoy and understand, but then it works really well. Not even Thanos, over-used as he is, got on my nerves here.
Kieron Gillen delivers a compelling story within the conceit of Secret Wars' Battleworld, mixing and reinterpreting elements and characters of the standard Marvel universe in ways that put similar efforts from other writers to shame. A lot of that is based on puns and wordplay (Eardevil the Klawyer or Nick the Fury ("I kill superheroes!"); Galact-USA the Great Consumer), but it works (though I think the Fantastic Thors, as much as I like the idea, shouldn't have been in there, considering what Doom did with the FF and what the Siege story is actually about). Despite all this, the story is not a comedy.
The collection is buffed up by supplementing the four-issue Siege miniseries (which only shares its title with the Avengers-centric event of the same name (this one even states "Siege: it's about an actual siege")) with the two issues of Gillen's X-Men run that introduced the character of Unit, probably because a variation of that concept plays a major part in the mini. I liked those, too, but I didn't really think they belonged here. (My favourite line from this collection is found here, though: "The power of the two hyper-strong individuals is sufficient to pacify Xemnu via extreme deployment of kinetic energy.")
The art is very good in my opinion, with the interesting choice of having different artists do double-page spreads when the besieged Shield gets attacked by the different forces that threaten the rest of Battleworld, instead of showing pages and pages of fights.
This book requires a certain understanding of the Marvel Universe - and ideally of the Secret Wars event - to fully enjoy and understand, but then it works really well. Not even Thanos, over-used as he is, got on my nerves here.
May 2, 2016
While I can't be bothered to go back through all my previous Secret Wars reviews to check, I'm impelled to say that this book may well be the best thing to come out of that bloated 'event'.
In Siege Kieron Gillen (and a whole passel of seriously talented illustrators) has crafted a truly tragic visual poem on the hopelessness of war. It's genuinely heartbreaking at times.
It's not all Doom and gloom, though; Gillen also manages to jam in a bunch of references to his previous work that can't help but make his fans smile. He even fits in a reference to Saga (which makes two references to that particular Image book in the pages of Marvel comics now, including the reference to it in Daredevil)!
There is also what may just be the greatest moment, well, I won't say 'ever', but it's damned close!
I can't, in all honesty, say that Secret Wars was worth it just for this book but it does help balance the shit to gold ratio somewhat.
In Siege Kieron Gillen (and a whole passel of seriously talented illustrators) has crafted a truly tragic visual poem on the hopelessness of war. It's genuinely heartbreaking at times.
It's not all Doom and gloom, though; Gillen also manages to jam in a bunch of references to his previous work that can't help but make his fans smile. He even fits in a reference to Saga (which makes two references to that particular Image book in the pages of Marvel comics now, including the reference to it in Daredevil)!
There is also what may just be the greatest moment, well, I won't say 'ever', but it's damned close!
I can't, in all honesty, say that Secret Wars was worth it just for this book but it does help balance the shit to gold ratio somewhat.
March 27, 2016
Collects Siege (2015) issues #1-4 and Uncanny X-Men (2011) issues #9-10
This story is set during the events of "Secret Wars," however it doesn't tie into "Secret Wars" in such a way that makes it required reading for that series. With that being said, the story in this collection could only take place within the Battleworld of the 2015 "Secret Wars." Furthermore, scenes from Issue #4 felt like they could have been "deleted scenes" from the actual "Secret Wars" series because it shows how Thanos completed his part of the mission. There is a significant conversation between Thanos (from the 616 Universe) and Ben Grimm (the Shield of Battleworld).
This book is about the team of people that stand guard on the Shield, a team led by Abigail Brand. Almost the whole book felt pointless, other than the above mentioned scenes in Issue #4.
The "Uncanny X-Men" issues included in this collection feature Abigail Brand and other characters that appeared in this collection's "Secret Wars" tie-in story.
This story is set during the events of "Secret Wars," however it doesn't tie into "Secret Wars" in such a way that makes it required reading for that series. With that being said, the story in this collection could only take place within the Battleworld of the 2015 "Secret Wars." Furthermore, scenes from Issue #4 felt like they could have been "deleted scenes" from the actual "Secret Wars" series because it shows how Thanos completed his part of the mission. There is a significant conversation between Thanos (from the 616 Universe) and Ben Grimm (the Shield of Battleworld).
This book is about the team of people that stand guard on the Shield, a team led by Abigail Brand. Almost the whole book felt pointless, other than the above mentioned scenes in Issue #4.
The "Uncanny X-Men" issues included in this collection feature Abigail Brand and other characters that appeared in this collection's "Secret Wars" tie-in story.
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