Amazing Spider-Man Presents - JACKPOT #1 (OF 3) - There's a brand new Jackpot in on the streets of NY and she already has enemies in the form of Boomerang and The Rose.



CABLE #22 - After years on the run in the distant future, the young woman named Hope is ready to return to the present day where she came from.


DEADPOOL TEAM-UP #897 - Deadpool teams up with both Ghost Riders.



MARVEL BOY - Uranian #1 (OF 3) - A young being from the planet Uranus came to Earth in the 1950s to be a hero, but that world was not ready him. Before he was the dark and mysterious Uranian, Bob Grayson was Marvel Boy.


NATION X - X-Factor - Will everything go well when X-factor is invited to set up camp on Utopia or will things boil over? And who or what is The Crone?


SIEGE #1 (OF 4) - A terrible, tho staged, event occurs and Norman Osborn invades Asgard in response. Steve Roger, Tony Stark, and Thor to rejoin forces. Those who survive this can't miss event will emerge into a new Heroic Age of Marvel Comics.



SIEGE EMBEDDED #1 (OF 4) - Osborn's attack on Asgard is being sold to the public via the media, but will his greatest tool be turned against him? It will if Ben Urich, the man who wrote the tell-all book about the Green Goblin that everyone ignored, has anything to say about it.



Ultimate Comics - SPIDER-MAN #6 - Mysterio launches the Spider-slayer machine into Peter Parker's high school and the mystery of the Shroud is revealed.



NEW MUTANTS #9 - X Necrosha - Illyana knows details about the X-men's future and so far isn't talking. Maybe Emma Frost can change that by becoming a black lant... err... wrong book. Never mind.

Seriously, the horse died months ago, but go right ahead and keep beating it.

I'm actually kind of intrigued by New Mutants. I've never really been that interested in them but so far it's been kind of interesting.

Seige #1 is it for me. So only 3 books total this week.

I thought Siege was pretty good. Looks like there's going to be some decent action in the upcoming issues. I haven't been following much of the dark reign or even thor stuff, so my opinion is pretty ignorant of how it all fits together. It just seems like it should be fun.

without knowing his comics backstory, or even that much greek mythology, i do not understand why Ares, a greek god, is so dumb and easily manipulated.

I do like Loki playing both sides, I like how they show that Norman is overstepping his bounds with the American government, which hopefully could draw this whole bad guys are ok to the public thing to a close... Other than that it's just your typical bad guy pulling a Napoleon and trying to take over too much.

If the story has a definitive ending, it would be great, but with Marvel's track record over the last decade, I doubt it will resolve many story lines and probably create more than is necessary.

From a pure myth standpoint, Ares is an easily manipulated boor. In Greek myth, he's a hated god. He's there for heroes to beat up, and get made fun of. He's the typical crass bully who likes pushing people around, but folds like a wet newspaper when up against a tough enough foe.

The Romans however venerated Mars, and he went from a crass cowardly bully, despised by the other Olympians to a heroic soldier. Basically representing all the Romans saw as noble and virtuous in the soldier. He was still the god of war, but now he was noble and worthy of veneration (where as the Greeks hated and despised Ares).

Well that clears that up, thanks. So, Ares is somewhat accurate.

Oh, and just to be clear Ares = Mars

Ares - Greek name
Mars - Roman name

Glad I could help

siege was fairly solid. i dont think ares is being entirely manipulated. he knows whats going on. and would not be surprised to see him trn on osborn before its all over.

i found myself really enjoying siege: embedded tho. the civil war frontline stuff was good, but the SI one was ####....this tho looks good, ben urich, will stern and volstagg on a road trip promises to be enjoyable.

at first, with using volstagg as the "incident" to kick things off, i was rather bummed, being a big warriros three fan. but, with that getting him into this boook, it should be enjoyable

question on Siege Number 1...in the back is Are's battle plan...but it has the same text as the first page of the plan in there twice...was that some sort of mistake on Marvel's part?