Review
Number One on Comic Book Resources' Poll of the 50 Greatest Avengers Stories!
"A brilliant example of sub-plots simmering to the point of boiling overin an explosive succession of issues ... likely [to be] remembered asStern's masterpiece." -- Brian Cronin, comicbookresources.com
"I really loved the Roger Stern/John Buscema run on The Avengers. This was truly the wide-screen type of action that the team is so wellsuited for. I still remember being rocked by the battle with TheMasters of Evil and hope to see the Siege on Avengers Mansion storyline make it to the big screen one day." -- Ross Pearsall
"One of the all-time great Avengers stories -- nice and dramatic, highlyemotional, and it ultimately led to some major repercussions for theteam." -- Blake Petit
"One of the greatest superhero/supervillain battles ever, and of course given the success of the Avengers movie, this would make a greatfollow-up...but it's just too expensive to ever make into a live actionfilm." -- Dankwa Brooks
"Under Siege was possibly Roger Stern's best arc on the book. It took a lot ofchances with the narrative ... an amazing volume that any fan of the series should have." -- Brian Poole
"Thanks to Stern's strong characterization and dramatic plotting, this is one Avengers arc you won't soon forget." -- Jesse Schedeen
"These issues are hailed by many as the greatest Avengers story of all time. It featured the best super-hero work of John Buscema's career. And nobody writes Janet Van Dyne like Roger Stern. Roger writes each character--even the villains--with distinctive voices, and he clearly loves his subjects. It's this kind of character work, folded into a great, smash-and-bash storyline, that epitomizes everything great about Roger Stern." -- Ethan Kalett
"Roger Stern and John Buscema's 1986 story arc 'Under Siege' finds Avengers Mansion under attack by a new Masters of Evil, leading to one of the purest superhero-vs.-super-villain team fights ever put on the page.Fans of this story will want to check out more of Stern's run, which is a straightforward superhero book that absorbs just a tiny bit of the grim-and-gritty comic-book movement of the late '80s." --Oliver Sava, A.V.Club.com
"The brilliance of Stern is that you can pick up any single issue at random and find yourself engaged, fulfilled, and ready for more." -- MichelFiffe
"Stern, and to an extent artist John Buscema, does his best here ... to show how it's done in a simple, concise and powerful manner. There is absolutely no doubt that it worked ... Avengers: Under Siege has become the go-to story when it comes to one good team vs. one evil team. Even now, twenty-five years later, it is referred to and copied over and over." -- Chris Marshall, Collected Comics Library
"A classic story in every sense of the word, there can be no doubt that Under Siege is the Greatest Avengers Story of All Time." -- Scott Harris
About the Author
Roger Stern has written for radio, television, the stage, and theInternet, creating scripts for everything from sketch comedy toflash-animation. For ten years, he was the senior writer of theSuperman series for DC Comics. Stern has written hundreds of storiesabout such diverse characters as Green Lantern, Supergirl, Starman, theAtom, and the Justice League for DC Comics; and Spider-Man, CaptainAmerica, Doctor Strange, the Incredible Hulk, Iron Man, and the Avengers for Marvel. His first prose novel, The Death and Life of Superman, was a New York Times bestseller.
