Comments on: Why the Sentry is the Worst Comic Book Character of All Time http://old-wizard.com/the-sentry-the-most-poorly-written-comic-book-superhero-of-all-time Gaming lore from the gaming vanguard. Sun, 14 Mar 2010 05:10:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Christian http://old-wizard.com/the-sentry-the-most-poorly-written-comic-book-superhero-of-all-time/comment-page-1#comment-42652 Christian Wed, 17 Feb 2010 14:57:39 +0000 http://old-wizard.com/?p=953#comment-42652 I agree with this article. Power of a million exploding suns my ass. Whoever created the Sentry character must've had some major insecurity issues. He's also not very familiar with astrophysics as the scale of Sentry's power and his strength relative to other strong characters in the Marvel universe doesn't add up. And Marvel perpetuates this baloney (bologna, whutever floats your boat) just so they could match one-up DC and Superman. Power of a million exploding suns? More like a million diarrheic cows. I agree with this article. Power of a million exploding suns my ass. Whoever created the Sentry character must’ve had some major insecurity issues. He’s also not very familiar with astrophysics as the scale of Sentry’s power and his strength relative to other strong characters in the Marvel universe doesn’t add up. And Marvel perpetuates this baloney (bologna, whutever floats your boat) just so they could match one-up DC and Superman. Power of a million exploding suns? More like a million diarrheic cows.

]]> By: Dan N http://old-wizard.com/the-sentry-the-most-poorly-written-comic-book-superhero-of-all-time/comment-page-1#comment-39039 Dan N Sat, 02 Jan 2010 09:04:36 +0000 http://old-wizard.com/?p=953#comment-39039 I think that the Sentry is, indeed, a fantastic character. His mini-series could easily be converted into a fantastic movie, especially with the twist at the end. However, he does suffer from inconsistent writing. Bendis has him now...let Bendis keep him! He needs time under one writer and one writer only... I think that the Sentry is, indeed, a fantastic character. His mini-series could easily be converted into a fantastic movie, especially with the twist at the end. However, he does suffer from inconsistent writing. Bendis has him now…let Bendis keep him! He needs time under one writer and one writer only…

]]> By: Delta http://old-wizard.com/the-sentry-the-most-poorly-written-comic-book-superhero-of-all-time/comment-page-1#comment-22705 Delta Wed, 05 Aug 2009 22:14:17 +0000 http://old-wizard.com/?p=953#comment-22705 Sammy..... While it is true that it's upto the writers whether actual serious damage gets done or not, it seems pretty poorly thought-out, even for the medium, to have such little collateral damage when they were emphasizing the whole Power Of A Million Exploding Suns thing, and that no one but Sentry could stop the Hulk. Then have it end like that, barely any collateral damage, and then Hulk beaten by satalites that'd been there for God knows how long and never even MENTIONED before. And a bit more on the collateral damage, it seems even worse if Sentry and Genis-Vell were thinking their fight would destroy the planet they were on. Then Sentry unleashes his "full-power." With Superman at least he holds-back almost the entire time, but he's devastated places with collateral damage when he's stopped holding back for whatever reason. And Superman only has the power of one non-exploding sun!! But in all seriousness, I'd have to agree that they need to clear-up whether Sentry really has the power of a million supernovas or it's just hyperbole. And on how the Hulk/Sentry fight ended, I agree that Bruce knocking-out Bob is quite different from Hulk knocking-out Sentry, but still a really poor way to end the fight....only to have Hulk beaten the way he was shortly later. And onto writing him, they start him out being this uber-powerful character with a rip-off of Triumph's origin, he disappears being in mostly limbo for a while, then make him really important but an inconsistent Superman-clone with a few extra powers. They should pick what exactly they want to do with him and stick to it. Sammy…..

While it is true that it’s upto the writers whether actual serious damage gets done or not, it seems pretty poorly thought-out, even for the medium, to have such little collateral damage when they were emphasizing the whole Power Of A Million Exploding Suns thing, and that no one but Sentry could stop the Hulk. Then have it end like that, barely any collateral damage, and then Hulk beaten by satalites that’d been there for God knows how long and never even MENTIONED before.

And a bit more on the collateral damage, it seems even worse if Sentry and Genis-Vell were thinking their fight would destroy the planet they were on. Then Sentry unleashes his “full-power.” With Superman at least he holds-back almost the entire time, but he’s devastated places with collateral damage when he’s stopped holding back for whatever reason. And Superman only has the power of one non-exploding sun!!

But in all seriousness, I’d have to agree that they need to clear-up whether Sentry really has the power of a million supernovas or it’s just hyperbole.

And on how the Hulk/Sentry fight ended, I agree that Bruce knocking-out Bob is quite different from Hulk knocking-out Sentry, but still a really poor way to end the fight….only to have Hulk beaten the way he was shortly later.

And onto writing him, they start him out being this uber-powerful character with a rip-off of Triumph’s origin, he disappears being in mostly limbo for a while, then make him really important but an inconsistent Superman-clone with a few extra powers. They should pick what exactly they want to do with him and stick to it.

]]> By: Sammy http://old-wizard.com/the-sentry-the-most-poorly-written-comic-book-superhero-of-all-time/comment-page-1#comment-21758 Sammy Wed, 29 Jul 2009 16:33:45 +0000 http://old-wizard.com/?p=953#comment-21758 Here's the thing you have to look at the title of the comic you're talking about here "World War HULK". Of course they couldn't let the title character be taken out that easily in a fight no matter who it was against. Not to mention like someone said before the Sentry is a good friend of the Hulk, and didn't want to kill him. Sentry knew how much the Hulk could take, and as far as only ruining a few city blocks think of it this way most of the impact of the punches were directly taken by the characters themselves. I admit that other characters in the past have fought and destroyed whole cities,even planets, but you have to blame this one on the writers. Also in Civil War the reason why they let things go down the way they did was because of how it was going to end up. With the death of Steve Rodgers,aka Captain America dying. That was the intragul part of the plot. They couldn't have done that with someone like Sentry stealing the show. Also when Sentry was "KO'ed" he wasn't the Sentry at that point he was just plain old Bob. And Bruce knocking out Bob isn't the samething. Also once again just blame that on poor writing. Like you said in the beginning of the article, "no one can seem to write him correctly." Here’s the thing you have to look at the title of the comic you’re talking about here “World War HULK”. Of course they couldn’t let the title character be taken out that easily in a fight no matter who it was against. Not to mention like someone said before the Sentry is a good friend of the Hulk, and didn’t want to kill him. Sentry knew how much the Hulk could take, and as far as only ruining a few city blocks think of it this way most of the impact of the punches were directly taken by the characters themselves. I admit that other characters in the past have fought and destroyed whole cities,even planets, but you have to blame this one on the writers. Also in Civil War the reason why they let things go down the way they did was because of how it was going to end up. With the death of Steve Rodgers,aka Captain America dying. That was the intragul part of the plot. They couldn’t have done that with someone like Sentry stealing the show. Also when Sentry was “KO’ed” he wasn’t the Sentry at that point he was just plain old Bob. And Bruce knocking out Bob isn’t the samething. Also once again just blame that on poor writing. Like you said in the beginning of the article, “no one can seem to write him correctly.”

]]> By: Alice http://old-wizard.com/the-sentry-the-most-poorly-written-comic-book-superhero-of-all-time/comment-page-1#comment-21331 Alice Sat, 25 Jul 2009 01:30:12 +0000 http://old-wizard.com/?p=953#comment-21331 loved your article and I agree with what you said 100% I'm really getting tired of Marvel shoving the Sentry down our throats in every book loved your article and I agree with what you said 100%
I’m really getting tired of Marvel shoving the Sentry down our throats in every book

]]> By: Jamie Hewitt http://old-wizard.com/the-sentry-the-most-poorly-written-comic-book-superhero-of-all-time/comment-page-1#comment-6376 Jamie Hewitt Sat, 22 Nov 2008 22:23:21 +0000 http://old-wizard.com/?p=953#comment-6376 I Disagree, i think he is a great character, the sentry has never used his power to his full extent or anywhere near as mentioned in the 2000 mini series, due to his serious mental issues he won't allow himself to. Also the hulk is one of his greatest friends, the hulk looks up to the sentry as a father figure so the sentry was never out to kill the hulk and i like to think he knew exactly when to stop before the hulk was destroyed. oh yes and when the fight ended in world war hulk, the hulk reverted back to banner, so the hulk was beaten only to have his power restored by the anger of rick being stabbed by "miek the unhived" i believe it was. I Disagree, i think he is a great character, the sentry has never used his power to his full extent or anywhere near as mentioned in the 2000 mini series, due to his serious mental issues he won’t allow himself to. Also the hulk is one of his greatest friends, the hulk looks up to the sentry as a father figure so the sentry was never out to kill the hulk and i like to think he knew exactly when to stop before the hulk was destroyed.

oh yes and when the fight ended in world war hulk, the hulk reverted back to banner, so the hulk was beaten only to have his power restored by the anger of rick being stabbed by “miek the unhived” i believe it was.

]]> By: The Irredeemable Shag http://old-wizard.com/the-sentry-the-most-poorly-written-comic-book-superhero-of-all-time/comment-page-1#comment-1993 The Irredeemable Shag Fri, 08 Aug 2008 21:49:40 +0000 http://old-wizard.com/?p=953#comment-1993 Great article. I completely agree with everything you said. In fact, I tried to purchase the URL http://www.killthesentry.com/, but it was already taken. I'm really hoping the webmaster does something soon with that page. I'd be willing to support it. The Irredeemable Shag http://onceuponageek.com Great article. I completely agree with everything you said. In fact, I tried to purchase the URL http://www.killthesentry.com/, but it was already taken. I’m really hoping the webmaster does something soon with that page. I’d be willing to support it.

The Irredeemable Shag
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]]> By: Osama http://old-wizard.com/the-sentry-the-most-poorly-written-comic-book-superhero-of-all-time/comment-page-1#comment-1950 Osama Mon, 04 Aug 2008 16:39:27 +0000 http://old-wizard.com/?p=953#comment-1950 I have to agree with Phil. I look forward to your comic posts way more than your video game ones :P I have to agree with Phil. I look forward to your comic posts way more than your video game ones :P

]]> By: Phil http://old-wizard.com/the-sentry-the-most-poorly-written-comic-book-superhero-of-all-time/comment-page-1#comment-1947 Phil Mon, 04 Aug 2008 02:05:44 +0000 http://old-wizard.com/?p=953#comment-1947 I don't know what people are complaining about. This was a pretty decent article. I'd say you guys are better comic book journalists than you are video game journalists. Stick to comic books. I don’t know what people are complaining about. This was a pretty decent article. I’d say you guys are better comic book journalists than you are video game journalists. Stick to comic books.

]]> By: garbage article http://old-wizard.com/the-sentry-the-most-poorly-written-comic-book-superhero-of-all-time/comment-page-1#comment-1943 garbage article Mon, 04 Aug 2008 00:38:24 +0000 http://old-wizard.com/?p=953#comment-1943 This article is retarded. I feel like I lost 10 IQ points just by glancing at it. This article is retarded. I feel like I lost 10 IQ points just by glancing at it.

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