Marvel Comics - Original Sin #0 - Spoilers!

Spoilers! Below!


Marvel Comics Event Original Sin issue #0 – wait a second this is starting with issue number zero? And the series is zero out of eight?  Why not just make this a nine issue series and not make up one of those lame fake first issues by making a number one and a number zero.  Anyway, the story follows the most recent person to be the super hero Nova (Sam Alexander).  I have not been following his comic but in this appearance he seems like a skinny Spider-Man wannabe just not as smart and possibly whinier.  The advantage he has is this super stuff still amazes him and his sense of wonder is still intact.  Apparently Nova and the Watcher Uatu are buddies with Nova having some type of emotional attachment to the big silent all seeing Watcher.

First the story summary: After Nova defeats a giant evil robot posing as an ancient God singlehandedly he meets with the Avengers (Captain America, Iron Man and Thor).  During their conversation Nova learns a few things about Uatu and flies off to ask the Watcher a question.  Nova gives the Watcher a gift of some soil from the battlefield where the Phoenix Force was “destroyed” by the X-men and Avengers.  After being given the gift Uatu leads Nova through the Watcher’s base.  During the tour Nova finds a rather well stocked armory containing many powerful weapons including an Ultimate Nullifier (A little forshading?).  He then ends up in a monitor room where Uatu tells in video the story of why the Watcher’s do what they do.  Then we see that the Watcher watches not just our Earth (Earth of universe 616 for those that care) and our Galaxy but all realities and their variants just like being given access to all the “What If?” comics at once.  Nova then asks the question he has been dying to ask and then flies away.  We also learn that one of the Watcher’s reasons for all this searching is that he is looking for a universe where the Watcher’s and their first meddling with other races did not lead to the self-destruction of the Prosilican race in a self-inflicted Nuclear War.

I have always enjoyed the “What If?” line of Marvel Comic Books.  When well-done these stories were excellent they were the tales not told or told from another point of view.  A place where the good guys winning was not the only outcome and often leads to horrible endings.  Since these stories were told by the Watcher Uatu I liked him.  He was like that one cool historian people would not mock for his interests.  Frankly that is the only reason I picked up this new Mini-Series by Marvel Comics Titled Original Sin. The Watcher was a primary character and part of the story even as a murder victim peaked my interest.  At the very least this could be an entertaining disaster of a comic book story.  The first story here was well done if really more of hey this is the heavy lifting of all the backstory of the Watcher Uatu and what he does skulking about on the far side of the Moon.  I guess that is why the issue was labeled number zero and not number one you might be able to skip this issue.  In the end this issue was a good read and I was entertained.  I admit to being a little worried the story would suck.