Review:
It's Siege Week! Siege #1 and Siege Embedded #1

The siege on Asgard has begun. Both Siege #1 and Siege Embedded hit stores this week and they were both well worth the read. As in get your butt moving down to your comic book shop and buy it.

Siege #1
The story: Brian Michael Bendis' culmination of seven years worth of stories begins here as Volstagg is manipulated into an event that kills American people and sets in motion Norman Osborn's assault on Asgard. It's Thor vs. the Dark Avengers but will he be enough? Most likely not, I think we need us Some Captain America and Iron Man!

The good: First off, the art is fantastic. Olivier Coipel is doing the best work of his career here. Not only is the art beautiful, but he's done a fantastic job on the page set up and panel distribution. He keeps things fresh and exciting, simple when they need to be simple, epic when they need to be epic and never confusing to read.

Bendis’ writing is great, the interaction between the characters--especially the Dark Avengers--is quite enjoyable, the action is exciting. The story is fast paced, slick and quick. It doesn't feel like the normal event book and that’s a really good thing. You don't have to wait for two to three issues for something to happen, we jump right into it. One of my favorite scenes had to be Ares riding on the nose of a jetfighter as they invade Asgard.

The bad: The comic is 40 pages long but the story is only 22 pages—six of which we’ve seen previewed in two other books. I went into it thinking I was going to be reading a 40 page comic, so when I hit the "to be continued" I got pissed. Like swearing out loud in my car pissed. A big part of that was because I was enjoying the story so much, I really wanted more. Now the rest of the book is a lot of filler. First up is Joe Quesada talking about the chain of events that lead to Siege, then there's a transcript of conversation between the Dark Avengers which I could really care less about. Plus there's a misprinting here as they reprint the same dialogue on two different pages. And to top it off, we get a preview of Hulk #19 (Fall of the Hulks), which is a sour note to end the book on as I do not like the Red Hulk nor Ed McGuinness' art.