Written by Brian Michael Bendis
Art by Mike Deodato
Marvel had a great run with the Dark Avengers. With Norman Osborn/Iron Patriot at the head of the official Avengers as well as the Shield like H.A.M.M.E.R., one found several psychopaths and former villains as heads of management. Things seem to work well until Osborn began to make more enemies and slowly fall back to his old ways. Not to mention the fact that several members of the Dark Avengers such as Bullseye (acting as Hawkeye) and Daken (acting as his father Wolverine) began to make trouble of their own.
During the Siege of Asgard, many of the founding members of the Avengers, the New Avengers, and their affiliates banded together with the Asgardians to defeat Osborn, the Dark Avengers, and H.A.M.M.E.R. While the Siege event crossed over into several issues, Dark Avengers #16 focuses on the end of this super-villains acting as heroes team.
Although the final issue of Dark Avengers is short and should have been longer. The end is sweet as Osborn gets what's coming to him. Some of the Dark Avengers escape but most are imprisoned. Deodato's artwork is crisp and it is great to see him continue on the Secret Avengers series.
What's interesting is to see Steve Rogers admitting that Osborn made some sensible decisions. It's one of the reasons I enjoyed the Dark Avengers run. Osborn, who despite his shortcomings, really tries to fight against his Green Goblin persona. Osborn also believes that what he is doing is right for the country. Osborn succeeds in containing national security threats and keeping certain super-villains in check. However, Osborn's paranoia is difficult to overcome.
3 comments:
sigh! it all went wrong with Civil War I say.
I actually dug the Skrull Invasion and then dark siege.
Civil war, i had issues with. It reminded me of the Mutant registration act.
but I really, really dug Dark Siege..
Siege was cool, but I think Marvel starts all these series with the highest of hopes and then they just fizzle. Issue 2 or was it 3 when Sentry rips Ares apart was like the most intense full page spread I can remember but then at the end I found Siege sort of fizzled.
Same with most marvel series. What I find interesting in the past few series though is the willingness to knock off established players like Ares, Loki etc and in the X-Men they just offed Cable and Nightcrawler. Quite interesting.
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