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Guide Part 13 (Siege)

The Siege of Asgard

The decade of Marvel events can essentially be split into two halves, with the first half culminating in Secret Invasion. The second half of events spins out of Secret Invasion, into Norman Osborne’s Dark Reign, ultimately culminating in Siege.

As Marvel events go, Siege is one of the more focused titles, centering around Osborne’s plans to overthrow Asgard, and remove the Asgardian god’s “threatening presence” from U.S. soil. The events of Siege really do mark an end to an era, concluding with Brian Michael Bendis’s New Avengers Finale after a Marvel U altering 6+ year run.

The reading orders below include first a collection of all relevant trades, followed by an issue by issue reading order list. With the trade reading orders, I generally recommend knocking out the primary issues first, but I realize it’s often more fun to jump around issue by issue. With these orders you can do both.

Any questions or comments with any of this can be sent here. Otherwise, happy reading!

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Marvel Siege

Siege Trade Reading Order

  • Siege: Prelude

If you’ve already kept up with your Dark Reign reading, this prelude is going to offer a lot of redundancies. If not, and you want a quick recap before Siege, this prelude sums up the state of the Dark Reign Marvel Universe fairly succinctly.

  • Siege

The primary Siege trade collection is very comprehensive, including SIEGE: THE CABAL, SIEGE PROLOGUE, SIEGE 1-4, SIEGE 1 DIRECTOR’S CUT; NEW AVENGERS 61-64; DARK AVENGERS 13-16.

  • Thor: Siege (Thor #607-610, New Mutants #11, Siege: Loki)
  • Dark Avengers: Siege (#13-#16, Annual #1)
  • New Avengers: Siege (#61-#64, Annual #3, New Avengers – The List, New Avengers Finale)
  • Mighty Avengers: Siege (#32-#36)
  • Avengers: The Initiative (#31-#35)
  • Siege:Embedded (#1-#5)

For all the Ben Urich, Frontline lovers out there. 

  • Siege: Thunderbolts (#138-#143)
  • Siege: X-Men (Dark Wolverine #82-84, New Mutants #11, Siege: Storming Asgard – Heroes & Villains)
  • Siege: Battlefield

Includes a variety of tie-ins that take place during the battle for Asgard. Tie-ins for all of the following: Spider-Man, Young Avengers, Loki, Captain America, & Nick Fury’s Secret Warriors.

  • Thor: Siege Aftermath

As the title makes clear, this isn’t a Siege tie-in so much as the direct aftermath. Storyline is called ‘Thor Goes to Hell.’ 

The Complete Issue by Issue Reading Order List

Siege: The Cabal
Avengers: The Initiative #31
Origins of the Siege #1

Siege #1 
Avengers: The Initiative #32
Dark Avengers #13
Dark Wolverine #82
New Avengers #61
Siege: Embedded #1
Siege: Storming Asgard – Heroes & Villains

Siege #2
Avengers: The Initiative #33
Dark Avengers #14
Dark Wolverine #83
New Avengers #62
Siege: Embedded #2
Thor #607
Thunderbolts #141

Siege #3
Avengers: The Initiative #34
Dark Avengers #15
Dark Wolverine #84
Mighty Avengers #35
New Avengers #63
New Mutants #11
Siege: Embedded #3
Thor #608
Thunderbolts #142

Siege #4
Avengers: The Initiative #35
Dark Avengers #16
Fallen (not official title at present)
Mighty Avengers #36
New Avengers #64
Siege: Embedded #4
Thor #609

Thor #610
Thunderbolts #143

New Avengers Finale One-Shot

Next: The Heroic Age & Chaos War

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Reader Interactions

Comments

  1. Drei says

    November 8, 2020 at 9:16 am

    Thor: Siege Aftermath = Thor 2007 Issues 611-614

    Reply
  2. Carlos Zurita says

    September 10, 2018 at 10:06 pm

    I wouldn’t have thought that Volstagg and Victoria Hand would’ve been my favorite characters throughout Dark Reign and Siege but they were. These two events are also probably my favorites out of the modern era ones.

    Reply
  3. Raúl Martínez says

    December 14, 2017 at 11:10 am

    Hey, I have a question.

    The issue “Fallen (not official title at present)”, is that the one called “Sentry: Fallen Sun”?

    Reply
  4. Mormegil says

    September 1, 2017 at 9:55 am

    Just a note for Marvel Unlimited Readers.

    Origins of the Siege #1 is labeled as Siege Digital Prologue #1. Took me forever to find it on unlimited.

    Reply
  5. Sebastien says

    October 16, 2016 at 8:57 pm

    New Avengers #61 & #62 should definitely go before Siege #1, because until then the rest of the New Avengers don’t know that Steve Rogers is back.

    Reply
  6. Hiroshi says

    October 18, 2015 at 5:18 pm

    Hey. So where is the Siege: Loki in the issue list?

    Reply
    • Hiroshi says

      October 18, 2015 at 5:21 pm

      And the annuals?

      Reply
    • Hiroshi says

      October 18, 2015 at 5:26 pm

      And the other one shots?

      Reply
  7. Christian says

    June 16, 2015 at 5:13 am

    Hey Dave!

    Is there a reason the event Heroic Age isn’t included here after Siege?

    Reply
    • André says

      June 18, 2015 at 5:23 pm

      I have just finished Siege and I am also kind of wondering this. I don’t really know what to pick up next. Chaos War doesn’t really seem relevant for the Earth continuity and not even Fear Itself for the matter, but there’s a huge gap between Siege and Avengers vs X-Men. If you could clarify us it would be wonderful! And great job with the site!

      Reply
      • Earl says

        August 13, 2015 at 6:22 pm

        Yes I’m wondering the same.

        Reply
        • Dave says

          August 16, 2015 at 7:14 pm

          A Heroic Age guide has been added to the reading order!

          Reply
      • Sean says

        November 6, 2016 at 1:08 pm

        Between Siege and Avengers vs. X-Men a lot of stuff happens. I’ll give you a quick summary of events. Note: events in between “(…)” are optional.
        – Dark Reign: This period rather than an event includes X-Men: X-Nation, which is not part of Dave’s Dark Reign reading order I might note!
        – Realm of Kings: This follow up event of War Of Kings takes place during Dark Reign, and should be read between Mighty Avengers #31 and #32, as they have a guest spot.
        (- Punisher: Franken-Castle #11-16: For if you want to know what happens with him.)
        – Timestorm 2009-2099: fun Spider-Man/Spider-Man 2099 event.
        – X-Men: Necrosha: Dave only has X-Men: Messiah CompleX on the list, which is only the beginning of X-Men events. This is the one after X-Nation is established, and leans heavily on X-Force, so you might want to be up to date with that (excellent!) series.
        (- Secret Warriors #11-16: They show up in Siege again, so you might want to bridge that gap.)
        – Incredible Hercules: Assault on New Olympus: this event is the Olympian counterpart of Siege.
        – Siege
        – Hercules: Fall of an Avenger: You might want to read this after you’ve read Assault.
        – X-Men: Second Coming: What got started with Messiah CompleX gets finished here. Read the Cable series of the same period and X-Men event Messiah War to be fully up to date.
        (- Wolverine: Origins #41-46, Dark Wolverine #85, Wolverine: Origins #47, Dark Wolverine #86, Wolverine: Origins #48, Dark Wolverine #87, Wolverine: Origins #49-50: to finish up with Daken.)
        (- The Punisher: Franken-Castle: Dark Wolverine #88, Franken-Castle #19, Dark Wolverine #89, Franken-Castle #20-21: For if you want to finish Franken-Castle.)
        – Fall of Hulks and World War Hulks: These Hulk events are closely tied.
        – The Heroic Age
        (- Onslaught Unleashed)
        – Shadowland
        (- Deadpool Corps)
        (- Identity Wars: Amazing Spider-Man Annual #38, Deadpool Annual #1, Incredible Hulks Annual #1.)
        (- Thanos Imperative)
        (- X-Men: Curse of the Mutants)
        – Chaos War
        – X-Men: Schism
        (- Black Panther: Doom War)
        – Fear Itself
        – Shattered Heroes
        – X-Men: Regenesis
        (- Everything Burns: Journey Into Mystery #639-641, The Mighty Thor #18, Journey Into Mystery #642, The Mighty Thor #19, Journey Into Mystery #643, The Mighty Thor #20, Journey Into Mystery #644, The Mighty Thor #21, Journey Into Mystery #645, The Mighty Thor #22.)
        – Spider-Island
        – Avengers vs. X-Men
        Hopefully that fills a bit of the gap.

        Reply
  8. Matt says

    June 8, 2015 at 1:18 am

    Just finished this entire series! Thanks for laying it all out for us. This one is quite the rabbit hole – so many side stories, seemingly unrelated to the overall Siege story (Thor and Thunderbolts, specificallly). And then there’s Ultron, whose appearance felt a lot out of place. In the end, it was a really enjoyable story minus those little side journeys – never thought I would get to Thunderbolts via the death of Captain America!

    Reply
    • Dave says

      June 9, 2015 at 12:43 pm

      I had forgotten about the oddball Ultron inclusion, nice call! Siege is a pretty entertaining, overlooked event at this point. A solid culmination the New Avengers ride.

      Reply
      • Anthony says

        January 27, 2021 at 3:39 am

        This isn’t a good reading order at all, and the story makes much less sense if read in this order. You literally just lazily pulled it directly from the checklist at the end of the Siege main event books…

        Reply

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