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Original Sins #1-5
Original Sins
The Young Avengers are back and facing down the Hood! But as the Watcher's eye detonates, causing all the Marvel Universe's hidden truths to come tumbling into the light, the balance of power will suddenly shift - and one of the Young Avengers will fall! Plus, discover the Original Sins of dozens of major Marvel mainstays, including the Inhumans, Doctor Doom, J. Jonah Jameson, the Black Knight, Howard the Duck, Lockjaw and many more...including the prime mover behind the Watcher's murder! Plus: he's a cybernetic master assassin, and he doesn't even know it! Presenting the deadly debut of the all-new Deathlok!
COLLECTING: ORIGINAL SINS 1-5, ORIGINAL SIN ANNUAL 1
COLLECTING: ORIGINAL SINS 1-5, ORIGINAL SIN ANNUAL 1
144 pages, Paperback
First published October 21, 2014
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Nathan Edmondson
214 books125 followersComic book and screenwriter Nathan Edmondson is a native of Augusta, GA. His Eisner-nominated book Who Is Jake Ellis? will soon be a major motion picture from 20th Century Fox, and The Activity film will come soon from Paramount Pictures. NPR has listed his work among the “Top 6 Comics to Draw You In” and USA Today and CNN are among those who have listed him in their Top 10 lists.
Nathan currently lives near Los Angeles, USA.
Nathan currently lives near Los Angeles, USA.
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May 18, 2016
This is one odd-assed collection!
It’s a bunch of ancillary tales centering around the main event where The Watcher gets killed and one of his eyes explodes causing people to have an overload of secrets flood their brain, because The Watcher watches stuff and has seen it all.
You would have thought he would have “seen” this coming.
Ugh! Go enjoy your meatball sub!
You have a lot of short tales (some only two pages) covering a bunch of Marvel characters that don’t usually get too much ink time – Howard the Duck, Black Knight, Deathlok, Lineage, Dum Dum Dugan, etc. There are two main stories – a kind of 1940’s Flash Gordon-esque story and a "a couple of Young Avengers meets The Hood" tale.
It’s the only thing here that has any zing. It’s funny, (sort of) hip and strange. The lone caveat is the art looks like the fourth place finisher of a “You Too Can Draw Like Michael Allred” contest.
Bottom line: Read the Young Avengers story; skip the rest.
It’s a bunch of ancillary tales centering around the main event where The Watcher gets killed and one of his eyes explodes causing people to have an overload of secrets flood their brain, because The Watcher watches stuff and has seen it all.
You would have thought he would have “seen” this coming.
Ugh! Go enjoy your meatball sub!
You have a lot of short tales (some only two pages) covering a bunch of Marvel characters that don’t usually get too much ink time – Howard the Duck, Black Knight, Deathlok, Lineage, Dum Dum Dugan, etc. There are two main stories – a kind of 1940’s Flash Gordon-esque story and a "a couple of Young Avengers meets The Hood" tale.
It’s the only thing here that has any zing. It’s funny, (sort of) hip and strange. The lone caveat is the art looks like the fourth place finisher of a “You Too Can Draw Like Michael Allred” contest.
Bottom line: Read the Young Avengers story; skip the rest.
August 13, 2015
Original Sins takes a look at what happened throughout the rest of the Marvel Universe after the Watcher's eye revealed all the sins of our heroes over in the main Original Sin series. This book is a set of short stories featuring such characters as Doctor Doom, Deathlocke, Black Knight, and others. The primary story is a five part Young Avengers story which wasn't all that great, but had some humorous moments. Some of these stories seem to be prequels to new books, but I'm not sure about that.
December 9, 2020
Original Sin was a boring and messy event by Jason Aaron where the Watcher exploded and all his omniscient secrets were revealed to people in the Marvel universe. And then it turned into some bullshit about Nick Fury being some secret assassin conspirator whose hand guided the Marvel universe or whatever, no one really cares and everyone wishes it never happened.
But Original Sins actually explored the secrets! That's actually all it is. An anthology of what different characters 'discovered' or 'remembered' or 'got caught up in' after the secrets of the Watcher were haphazardly thrown into the winds of New York City in some big superhero vs supervillain battle. They range from dark and dramatic to a total shitpost, and I love it. This anthology series actually has more hits than misses, with most thanks for that due to the Ryan North and Ramon Villalobos Young Avengers story that builds with each issue. Prodigy, Noh-Varr, and Hulkling fight/team up/annoy supervillain the Hood and handle clean-up duty for all the random people affected by all the crazy superhero crossover event stuff.
Zdarsky's story is also hilarious, it's one big parody/joke about what different heroes "secret" is, a short two pages of pure gold. But I also have to hand it to Al Ewing and Butch Guice for doing a fantastic Nick Fury story that actually ties into the rest of the Original Sin event. It deals with Fury's relationship wtih Dum Dum Dugan and the "man on the wall" role Nick Fury has carved for himself. It reads like Ewing is taking a look at Original Sin, how reprehensible Fury is being, and deciding to just shove the stake further into his heart and criticize everything he's done. Fury appoints himself judge, jury, and executioner, playing with the lives of his perceived enemies and his 'friends' alike. It actually questions the moral issue of the event in a strong and emotional way, and goes way darker than I expected.
Overall, this is probably one of the only anthology series for a big Marvel crossover event that I actually really enjoyed and thought was worth it. It doesn't really affect the main event, but it delivers on a lot of what the main event promised (and failed) to be.
But Original Sins actually explored the secrets! That's actually all it is. An anthology of what different characters 'discovered' or 'remembered' or 'got caught up in' after the secrets of the Watcher were haphazardly thrown into the winds of New York City in some big superhero vs supervillain battle. They range from dark and dramatic to a total shitpost, and I love it. This anthology series actually has more hits than misses, with most thanks for that due to the Ryan North and Ramon Villalobos Young Avengers story that builds with each issue. Prodigy, Noh-Varr, and Hulkling fight/team up/annoy supervillain the Hood and handle clean-up duty for all the random people affected by all the crazy superhero crossover event stuff.
Zdarsky's story is also hilarious, it's one big parody/joke about what different heroes "secret" is, a short two pages of pure gold. But I also have to hand it to Al Ewing and Butch Guice for doing a fantastic Nick Fury story that actually ties into the rest of the Original Sin event. It deals with Fury's relationship wtih Dum Dum Dugan and the "man on the wall" role Nick Fury has carved for himself. It reads like Ewing is taking a look at Original Sin, how reprehensible Fury is being, and deciding to just shove the stake further into his heart and criticize everything he's done. Fury appoints himself judge, jury, and executioner, playing with the lives of his perceived enemies and his 'friends' alike. It actually questions the moral issue of the event in a strong and emotional way, and goes way darker than I expected.
Overall, this is probably one of the only anthology series for a big Marvel crossover event that I actually really enjoyed and thought was worth it. It doesn't really affect the main event, but it delivers on a lot of what the main event promised (and failed) to be.
May 18, 2015
An amazingly varied and wonderful collection, full of surprises, including a very strong Young Avengers story, that's not to be missed. A really great Marvel collection that you might pass over. Don't. Pick this one up. You'll be glad you did. That Dum Dum Dugan story? The Annual? The Spidey TV variety hour? Loved every bit of this one.
April 27, 2023
Well that was a load of crap!
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August 20, 2014Dinosaur Comics' Ryan North takes the Young Avengers baton from Gillen & McKelvie and, if he doesn't produce quite such an instant classic, still brings the wonderful way with footnotes that has made his Adventure Time work such a delight. Plus, various short tales by other creators: some of them are excellent (Al Ewing on Nick Fury in particular), others throwaway fun, and a couple are dud. Mercifully, none require detailed knowledge of the parent event, which I will doubtless slog through when the library get it in, but certainly am not going to buy.
February 3, 2017
This is an anthology of stories linked to Marvel's Original Sin event. I liked the Young Avengers story, although I didn't care for the artwork. Most of the rest is pretty forgettable except for a hilarious, non-continuity two page story of Marvel heroes confessing their deepest, darkest secrets, and the Original Sin Annual that closes out the book. The Annual has a much more DC feel than Marvel, but it's quite good, and offers up juicy tidbits about the history of Earth in Marvel's cosmos.
March 8, 2021
Good story, it made me interested on the Young Avengers.
But there's one thing I don't understand:
In the end, Hulkling said to Prodigy: "Prodigy I could hug you. But I won't, because I don't want to make things weird and I respect our friendship"
Since when a hug between friends make things weird?
But there's one thing I don't understand:
In the end, Hulkling said to Prodigy: "Prodigy I could hug you. But I won't, because I don't want to make things weird and I respect our friendship"
Since when a hug between friends make things weird?
February 6, 2023
This was terrible. The idea behind the Original Sin story was secrets being revealed. Here, nothing of note is revealed. Added to that, nothing of interest happens. Added to that, the only story carried throughout the entire series, the Young Avengers, was by far the worst. I wish I didn't read this.
May 8, 2017
A tie-in book. Someone has killed a watcher, and everyone saw some secrets. This book mainly concentrates on the young Avengers and their run in with The Hood. It's nice to see the other side of the the Hood actually caring about people. A good read.
May 17, 2017
A few 1 off stories about people affected by the death of the watcher. I probably would have got more out of this if I had read Original Sin.
September 27, 2017
Enjoyed the stories - added bonus of Young Avengers - but wasn't fussed on the artwork.
January 2, 2021
Mostly uninteresting.
April 7, 2021
I found it disjointed and not very interesting. Overall poor art. Not worth the money for me.
June 20, 2021
Read it for the YA story, everything always ends so conveniently
December 11, 2021
3,5 stars.
Read only the Noh-Varr/David/Teddy story.
Read only the Noh-Varr/David/Teddy story.
September 9, 2023
Real hodgepodge. Mostly forgettable. Kind of like the rest of this event.
January 25, 2024
The Watcher's eye explodes and everyone's secrets are revealed... or are they? You will soon find out in this action-packed comic featuring 10+ different stories.
September 20, 2021
I enjoyed the premise of this series, might even look into reading more, but I overall couldn’t get into it due to it being so choppy in these 5 issues and the art style is not my favorite I’ve seen.
January 2, 2016
I love the Young Avengers but I didn't like this miniseries that much. I didn't like the art of the Young Avengers tie-ins. I guess I'm sort of fine with the plot they went with in this volume but I do miss the serious, epic ones such as those in Vol. 1 of Young Avengers or in Young Avengers: The Children's Crusade
January 11, 2020
This is one of my favorite comicbook collections (that doesn't say much, because I only have 4 and have finished 2). I would rate this five stars, but the ending was confusing, as it never solved the central conflict. It did give great incites to the Marvel universe, like the truth about Magneto's power, but, the book actually mentioned that it's "not in continuity". This is still a great graphic novel. 9/10, would recommend.
December 31, 2014
The Original Sins comics are just shallow spin-offs, but they're better than most of this sort, with most of the shorts being enjoyable. The core Young Avengers comic is actually quite impressive because the author manages to catch the style of the recent Gillen run and apply it to a Sin-related story [6+/10].
July 5, 2016
I was not happy with this. The cover to this lead me to believe that it was going to be a great story with a bunch of awesome characters. This was full of bad graphics and boring stories that made no sense to me.
December 18, 2014
I read this mainly for the Young Avengers tie-in. The art was terrible (teeeeerible), but Ryan North injects some humor to it. This is entirely skippable, though.
May 30, 2015
I'm giving it 2 stars for the Dum Dum Dugan story, otherwise it would be only one.
December 29, 2015
I actually liked this anthology better than the main storyline. oops. #sorrynotsorry
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