The Sentry. Of all the Avengers, he seems the hardest to place in all this. The way they made him all fractured and unsure of himself to prevent the Avengers from always having Superman around was different, at least, but rarely satisfying. And now we take a look at how that guy’s coping with all his friends trying to kill each other. Pasqual Ferry, Mark Morales & Dean White tagin this time, with a single page illustrated by the great Paul Smith. And since he’s an old school guy in and this is a Sentry comic, you can bet it’s a faux-old comic book page. This issue has the 2nd person (I think?) narration the original Sentry miniseries had. We open with a few pages of Sentry telling himself he doesn’t know what to do, or if anything he did would be right, and that anything he did would bring the Void. Then that he defeated the Void and that’s just an excuse. And that he ran away, and we see him meditating on the moon.
I think it’s funny, and did back then also, that in-universe, everyone’s totally bought into calling this a war. It’s like 40 people, tops fighting in one city, and it lasts like a couple weeks. Is that a war? Granted, they’re superheroes, but still. I feel like bigger groups need to be fighting over bigger parcels of land. This is more like a gang turf war.
Paul Smith, everybody! Looking sharp.
I have no idea who those weirdos in the last panel are. Well, they caught Bob offguard, but that’s over, and he’s got “the power of a billion exploding suns” or whatever, so he flies back down and starts to whup everybody, but then is reminded he came here to avoid fighting, and just stops them from attacking him. Then Crystal gives him a royal summons.
Comically, Bob says no, he can’t easily tell them that, but their psychic keeps pulling info out of his head til they know, anyway. He finally asks that they stop doing that, so they invite him to dinner to talk about the civil war. So, he does, we’re told, explaining everything from Secret War to House of M to Civil War, and notes that Black Bolt doesn’t seem at all surprised.
So Bob is then in the room he accepted just to be nice, and Crystal comes in, saying she heard they used to be friends from the psychic lady.
This page zooming into Iron Man to Bob’s reflection to Bob’s reflection’s eye to Iron Man in Bob’s reflection’s eye is very weird. I’m not sure what I’m supposed to take from it. Is Ferry just showing off (It’s a nice gag)? Is there a connotation here?
Whatever could that mean? I wonder if anyone knew what Bendis was cooking yet.