SIEGE EPILOGUE THE SENTRY FALLEN SUN
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Art by Tom Raney
Cover by Leinil Francis Yu
Size: 32 pages
Price: 3.99
This comic bothered me.
It bothers me because I’ve always been a fan of Nightcrawler, and never cared much for The Sentry. Yet, last week, Nightcrawler’s eulogy was farted out by someone who didn’t understand the nuance of any of the characters he was writing about. Someone who wrote a eulogy as if he’d learned everything he knew about Nightcrawler from Wikipedia. The issue made me angry, not that one of my favorite characters was dead, but that he wasn’t remembered properly in his own comic.
Paul Jenkin’s eulogy for The Sentry is breathtaking. It might even make you regret all those blog entries you made about how you wished they would kill him. While there are a few moments of levity (seriously, the funniest fart joke since Hugh Laurie on SNL: http://www.hulu.com/watch/4261/saturday-night-live-haunted-house {you’re welcome}), it’s mostly excruciatingly, achingly sad. I am told I have little to no soul left, and I teared up several times. AND I DON’T EVEN LIKE THE SENTRY. This was some wow level writing. Jenkins is clearly fluent in Grief, and has exactly the right art team working with him.
Thus far, this has been a very good week in comics, and I’d be surprised if anything beat this out for my pick of the week.
Really? A Sentry book as pick of the week?
Art: 5 - Excellent
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I can’t wait to read this! I’ve been waiting for this book ever since the Romita Jr series.
Wow, you just can’t let go of that issue of Uncanny, can you?
@Bornin1142: Well, it sucked.
Even after death there still crowbarring Sentry into Marvel continuity
I was bored with this book. Didn’t even finished reading it.
WHat the Fuck did i just read?
A review?
this was the worst comic book that i have read in a long time. Even after death they continue to retcon the sentry into being a central character in the marvel U – felt totally artificial – rogue crying about sentry dying because she dated him at some point which they just made up for this issue??? Terrible.
I wish I could hate this book out of existence.
Wow. I"m shocked by how many people appear to hate this book.
lol. I didn’t really care for it either. I don’t see the Sentry as being that important, and this book said that I’m apparently wrong. Now this may be due to my ignorance or having only read comics for about 3 yrs. now, but I never found Bob as a crucial part of the MU. I just thought he was fucking crazy. So I honestly didn’t care about this book at all.
@vadamowens: That’s why I liked this issue. I didn’t really care that much for The Sentry. I don’t mean, he was a villain, I didn’t like him; I mean I didn’t think he was that important. But this was written in such a way that, by the end of the issue, I did care about The Sentry. So, for me it was a win. I’m ok with being in the minority about that.
Well honestly, we’re entitled to a few disagreements. It happens so rarely:p I loved the shit out of the Return of Bruce Wayne book, too:)
It’s just funny to me how it bothers so many people how influential reveiwers can be on here. All last summer, I wrote reviews every week and really caught quite a bit of flack because I loved/hated a book and how that would encourage/dissuade people from buying it. I mean, isn’t that the fucking point? Ultimately a reviewer is conveying his love for comics through the review, so what’s the harm? If the sheepish masses choose to buy something strictly off a review, then I feel they deserve the occasional lemon to fucking teach them how to properly spend their money. I had to do the same thing when I started collecting. I just don’t see where the harm is.
Sure, I bought this with some influence from your review, but I love Paul Jenkins ever since I read his run on Hellblazer, so I would’ve bought it anyway. I don’t know…I’m just babbling now. Enjoy your evening.
Also, I’m getting mixed messages from your posts on the podcast page. Was the whole thing a big joke, or were you serious about liking it?
@vadmowens: It was a joke. Apparently, not over-the-top enough.
I was going to keep going with it, but, honestly, I don’t think I could top the Ron/Josh/Tom laughfest on the podcast. And I didn’t want to continue to stand by it to the point where people actually believed this was my favorite book this week. (I’m sure some will still believe it, and that’s ok.)
I convinced a friend of mine to pick up this issue because it was "perhaps the defining comic of the Marvel Universe". When he got over his initial anger, he thought it was fucken hilarious.
lol. you mother fucker!!!!!!1
what book did you read? this book was a big steaming pile of fail.
lol
@ibagree: I think you fail to take into account the various clues to The Sentry’s death that Jenkins placed in his original mini. Those of us who are smarter than the rest of you saw that, and enjoyed this spectacular, life changing issue. There are many websites devoted to how brilliant this is. You should educate yourself by checking them out.
My theory about this issue is that since they started by forceing the Sentry into the Marvel Universe, it would somehow seem appropriate to do so again for his eulegy… This book still sucked though.
Yeah, I’m not convinced that this review was sarcastic, sorry. In the PoTW thread you said that the sarcasm hint was the link to a fart joke? That’s not a tip-off, because it wasn’t a non sequitur in the context of the review. In other words, your review doesn’t seem all that madcap zany or anything. You use a few poetic phrases, but that’s what anyone would do in a 5/5 review. And you in particular DO do a pretty good job of writing reviews. You also reference Nightcrawler’s funeral, which you hated when it happened, and you play your reactions straight-faced here. Also, in the PoTW thread you said that you didn’t reveal your joke because you didn’t have time to comment in this thread, but actually, looking up, you did comment quite a few times, and in those comments you kept saying that you liked the book. Soo, it sounds to me that in a flurry you just grasped at straws to play the review off as a joke. That’s what it seems like.
Not that it matters. I mean, if you like the book, that’s fine. Anyone who likes something that the majority hates shouldn’t feel so embarrassed or whatever.
"Those of us who are smarter than the rest of you saw that, and enjoyed this spectacular, life changing issue. There are many websites devoted to how brilliant this is. You should educate yourself by checking them out."
Ha. Actually, though, I’m sad to see that what I wrote under your other review seems to have upset you so much. I’m sorry. Actually, though, no: the blogs and message board threads aren’t "devoted to how brilliant" Grant Morrison is; they’re devoted to trying to unpack his meaning. You know, sort of like how literature deserves to be discussed critically? I was actually a bit disappointed with that Bruce Wayne issue. I’d only give it like a 3. But you definitely should educate yourself about Morrison’s Batman if you want to understand it more than you do. Which you don’t. And that’s fine. It’s all good.
@froggulper: Oh, your comment on The Adventures Of Caveman Bruce didn’t upset me. I’ve received similar comments, and had similar discussions with people in the store about Morrison Batman websites. I AM glad that they exist for people who are enjoying the title. Personally, the Batman & Robin book just interests me less and less with each issue (and, again, hate the Xorn is the Joker reveal), and the Caveman Bruce issue didn’t entertain me in any way. I was particularly bothered by the stylistic caveman speak. Either they shouldn’t be speaking English at all, and should have to be translated, or, we should be seeing the issue through their eyes, and thus they should be speaking English. The stylized grammar just doesn’t work for me on any level. And everything else about it felt really reachy (which, it would seem, you agree with). /sidetrack While you and MikeHasselhoff seemed interested in actually talking about why you liked the book, and disagreed with my review (which, I appreciate), I’ve had and overheard many conversations with people who
But The Sentry book? Flawless. I didn’t say I didn’t have time to reply to the comments, I said "I responded to comments on all my other reviews almost immediately. Yet I didn’t reply back to comments on that review (apart from reiterating my stance on Uncanny sucking) for two days. I was having fun."
I agree with akamuu’s review.
Sorry Akamuu, I call bulls#!t. If you were being sarcastic in your review then it’s a bad attempt… You needed to be more overt. It’s clear you wrote your review in earnest and you’ve done a complete backpedal since the podcast came out.
Stand behind your words man. No shame in liking a book that everyone else hates. God knows we’ve all been there. : )