In Dark Avengers #3-4, how can Norman Osborne control his Iron Patriot armour, remotely, when the armour has gone to the past with Doctor Doom ?

Remote control messages (sent to the armour) wouldn't make it to the past surely?

Quantum entanglement?

In DA #11, the writers have brought back one of Marvel's most dangerous villians, the Molecule Man. As his name suggests, he has control over all matter at the molecular level. My nit is about his appearance. The picture of him I saw in the Marvel Handbooks showed him as an older man, kind of like the original Vulture. But this time, he's a relatively young man.

Anyway, he proceeds to kill the Sentry by seemingly splitting all of his molecules apart. But the ad for DA #12 shows good 'ol Robert Renyolds intact and ready to face what the next threat is for the team. What that is, I don't know yet.

Also, I thought virtually nothing could physically harm the Sentry, as his molecules are hyper-accelerated to be a few seconds ahead of everyone else. Like I mentioned elsewhere, he has incalculable strength, speed, and agility, and is able to discharge limited forms of energy. He was also the only being capable of stopping the Hulk's rampage in 2007's "World War Hulk" storyline.

The only way to harm the Sentry that I know of is not to attack him with weapons, but with psychology, like when the Void, his alter ego, tricked him into believing he killed his wife.
He then voluntarily imprisoned himself at the Raft, before the "Breakout" of 2005 (which began the "New Avengers" title.)

He is also a borderline schizophrenic and at times suffers from depression and self-doubt. But he has been invaluble to the various Avengers teams in the last 5 years, and I hope that he isn't "really" dead!

I suppose I will have to wait until issue 12 of Dark Avengers to find out the truth!

Not even the Molecule Man can stop the Sentry from existing, according to Dark Avengers #12! And I am very relieved that Robert Reynolds is back and intact. He even uses Owen Reece's molecule-manipulating powers against him, and manages to defeat him!

Turns out the Sentry can "control the molecules in his own world". Therefore, he cannot die, he is pretty much indestructible. Nothing on Earth can harm him physically, but like I said before, he can be brought down when the state of his mental health lapses. Hopefully that will not happen again soon.

Next for the Marvel Universe in 2010? The Siege! And now that Captain America has returned, he needs to confront Bucky Barnes, who took his place during his "absence".

That should be interesting, and I look forward to it!

Okay, Sentry is just way too powerful, it sounds like and that makes him, imho, bor-ing! (It's why I cannot stand Superman. The powerful level is just too great. That kind of power level is great for a villain. It gives the hero an obstacle to overcome. But a hero? If the hero does not have to struggle to win [and at that power level, they don't], there's no suspense. There's no question of whether Superman or Sentry can beat the bad guy or how they will win the fight. They're basically all powerful, so they will win. Easily.)

Don't forget about Superman's weaknesses, though. His vulnerability to magic, plus a little something called kryptonite. Green is the deadliest, and Red and Gold are harmful too. Also, he needs the power of a yellow sun to operate at peak efficiency.

That's why a villian with no real super powers like Lex Luthor has been able to be a threat to the Man of Steel for so long. He knows his weaknesses!

As for Sentry, well Benn, I have to say that you have a point. Sentry is, without a doubt, the most powerful human superhero on Earth. But what would happen if Galactus decides to try to consume Earth again? Could Reynolds hold off a threat of that magnitude?

I wonder if they will have that happen, that would be interesting, I think.

The FF have done a fine job staving off Galactus. So has Thor. That's why I've always enjoyed reading the Galactus stories. Galactus is so powerful that you have to wonder how will Reed and the team defeat him this time?

One of the reasons I never became a fan of DC comics is that just about every one of their characters had "a secret weakness". While I enjoyed knowing what the weaknesses were, it struck me as being stupid that these characters were so powerful they had to have a "secret weakness". It seemed so contrived to me. Superman's in particular seemed so very contrived and cliched to me. It seemed like a cheat to me.

Marvel's characters, on the other hand, were vulnerable. They weren't all-powerful or so powerful they required a secret weakness.* They could be hurt. They had to struggle with what powers they had to beat the bad guys. That's what made them so exciting to me.

*Iron Man is kinda the exception to this rule. He did have a "secret weakness" - his heart. That is, the scrapnel near his heart kept threatening to kill every third issue or thereabout. It got so it became as annoying a cliche as Aunt May having to go to the hospital every other issue because "she's so sick."

Excelsior!

I read online there was a story that was not made into a Marvel Comic: Galactus threatens Earth again (why he's back is apparently unknown, after all he was told to leave Earth alone) and the Sentry confronts him, and they fight.....to a standstill - even with the help of the Silver Surfer.

Neither are the clear victor. Sentry tells the World-Devourer that he must not threaten Earth ever again. Galactus states that he had no idea that such a powerful force (i.e. the Sentry) could possibly come from Earth. Even more so than Thor, the God Of Thunder and the FF, it seems. He promises to leave peacefully, and in parting, says that Earth has a fine protector in the Sentry.

I really wish they could actually make this a comic, it sounds really cool!

The above story of Sentry and Galactus battling to a standstill originally came from the original Sentry miniseries, which came out in 2000. Spider-Man spoke of this as he was recounting the Sentry's experiences on and around Earth.

The origin of the Sentry was that he had existed alongside Spider-Man, Hulk, and the Fantastic Four back in the '60's. However, his existence was erased from the memory of everyone on Earth. Yes, EVERYONE. This was so his murderous alter ego the Void could not hurt anyone else.

And then, in 2005, Marvel brought Robert Reynolds back, as a prisoner in the Raft prison for superhuman criminals. This was in issue one of the New Avengers title. After disposing of Carnage during the attempted super-criminal breakout orchestrated by Electro, he then became a member of the team by the same name.

Then came the Civil War, and Sentry joined Iron Man's Pro-Registration for Superhumans team. After Captain America's surrender and subsequent murder (he wasn't really dead, but that's another story) Sentry became a Mighty Avenger. After the Hulk returned to Earth and threatened to kill Reed Richards and Tony Stark, Sentry fought and defeated the Hulk. The following year, the Skrulls invaded, but Sentry did not have much to do with this conflict. Afterwards, Sentry joined Norman Osborn's Dark Avengers.

Now in 2010, the Siege is taking place between Earth and Asgard. Regarding Sentry's role in that storyline, please see the "Siege" board, which I started. Feel free to contribute!

This 16-issue series has come to an end. The Seige is over, and the Avengers and surviving Asgardians were victorious.

Robert Renyolds is dead, the Sentry/Void is no more. And the remaining Dark Avengers have been arrested and incarcerated, including their incredibly insane leader Norman Osborne. Also, HAMMER has been discontinued as well.

Just thought I'd let you all know.

The Dawn of The Heroic Age has come!