Avengers RE-Assemble in Marvel & Bendis's SIEGE?

[goldenfist]

from newsarama.com

On G4TV.com, Blair Butler did a massive two part video interview with Brian Michael Bendis covering movies, tv, and comics. After touching on his role in the Marvel creative group for the currently in-production Marvel Studios projects (with an Avengers movie meeting having already been completed), talking about how Icon was "created for" Bendis and others, and teasing new Powers TV and comics info, a comics-specific project was announced.

Siege, which kicks off in January, is a new four issue "Marvel event" that will bring an end to Norman Osborn's Dark Reign. It's a "seismic shift in the Avengers books" akin to that of Avengers Disassembled, said Bendis. Thor, Iron Man, and Captain America will come back together, uniting for the first time in a few years.

December will see a prologue issue called Siege: The Cabal, which is drawn by Michael Lark. The four-issue mini that follows starting in January will be drawn by Olivier Coipel. Bendis made a point of noting the four issue length, saying it'll be "boom boom boom" with action from start to finish.

Marvel's only official statement is "Stay tuned for news from the Diamond Retailer Summit next week.” We'll have full coverage from the Summit and more details for you then.

[woodside]

I'm hoping this caps off (no pun intended) the uber-story that began with Disassembled.

[thunderstrike78]

Oct 9, 2009 21:40:11 GMT -5 woodside said:

I'm hoping this caps off (no pun intended) the uber-story that began with Disassembled.

I don't think that will "cap off", to be perfectly honest, until Bendis leaves the book.

I was talking with a friend the other day about the state of the Avengers books, and we realized that the Scarlet Witch is still out there. (I mean, we knew that, but we really started thinking about it.)

Wanda essentially "started" the Bendis run with Disassembled. Then she went on and made some major changes to the MU with House of M and its aftermath. Curiously, though (at least to me), Bendis made a point of not killing her off, which would have been a natural endgame to the whole Wanda story. Instead, she was given amnesia and (last time I checked) is living a peaceful life in the European countryside somewhere. He even teased that when the resurrected Hawkeye tracked her down and slept with her.

If my read of the landscape is correct, Bendis has something in mind for her down the road. My guess is that Wanda will also "end" Bendis' run on the Avengers, neatly bookending the story she began in Disassembled. At that point, I think we'll be able to look back on the Bendis run as somehow being a "Scarlet Witch" story at its core. We might even find that she's somehow been influencing events this entire time.

That's my prediction.