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Chicagoans notice Soldier Field-size crater on Lake Shore Drive, shrug
Soldier Field, from Siege #1
It may have taken a couple of weeks, but the Chicago news media have finally detected the coming destruction of 85-year-old Soldier Field in Marvel’s Siege #1.
The landmark’s explosive fate was revealed Dec. 3 in a preview sequence reminiscent of the razing in 2006 of Stamford, Connecticut — the Marvel Universe version, in any case — used as a trigger for Civil War.
“I’m not the biggest sports guy and I meant no disrespect to sports fans,” writer Brian Michael Bendis tells the Chicago Sun-Times, “but we needed something so horrendous to happen for [Marvel's superheroes] to be united again. Hopefully, this will ring in a new day for Marvel readers.”
Chicagoans don’t appear particularly alarmed by the development. In fact, they’d be okay with a little more devastation.
“Marvel people,” one commenter writes in the comments section of the Sun-Times article, “Next time, please fill the stadium with Illinois politicians before you blow it up.” Says another: “In the next issue they should blow up Wrigley Field.”
Siege #1 debuts on Jan. 6.
- December 17, 2009 @ 09:45 AM by Kevin Melrose
3 Comments
Deetz
December 17, 2009 at 10:14 am
It looked like they were playing the Redskins in the preview pages. HAIL TO THE REDSKINS!!!!
Tim O'Shea
December 17, 2009 at 4:11 pm
Is there any truth to the rumors of a six- to seven part series in 2012 called Soldier Field: Reborn?
Shaun
December 17, 2009 at 8:31 pm
Well, given the Bears and their level of play this season, I wouldn’t expect Chicagoans to do much more than shrug.