Couldn’t It Have Been FedEx Field Instead?
by MICHAEL TUNISON / COMIC BOOKS
Marvel Comics is hoping to spice up their line of superhero comics. After all, DC Comics is going through the hackneyed reboot scheme. Marvel must counter with something equally uninspired. But what? Ham-fisted topical stories. Nope. Even better. They’re blowing up Solider Field. Destroying iconic buildings? What is this, a Roland Emmerich movie?
Brian Michael Bendis, writer of the four-issue Marvel series, calls Chicago the “most American city” and knew he wanted to center the horrific events there. Soldier Field wasn’t the first Chicago landmark he had his eye on, though.
“My first choice was to blow up Wrigley Field,” he says. “[Marvel Comics Editor in Chief] Joe Quesada is so in love with baseball, he couldn’t imagine blowing it up.”After years of superhero infighting and even a civil war that pitted Captain America and Spider-Man against Iron Man and others, Bendis says Siege is set to lay the groundwork of a reunion of sorts.
“I’m not the biggest sports guy and I meant no disrespect to sports fans, but we needed something so horrendous to happen for them to be united again,” he says. “Hopefully, this will ring in a new day for Marvel readers.”
I’m sure the country will come together as never before because a well-known sports venue got destroyed in a fictional universe. I hope they don’t level the fantasy White House too. We’re struggling enough in the nation as is.
— January 20‚ 2009 —
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