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Synopsis: The Sentry sits on the moon and ponders what to do. The heroes are in a Civil War. But what does he do? He runs away. Bob thinks he could kill almost every hero and single handedly win the war, but that would unleash the Void. The Sentry tries to convince himself that won’t happen, having recently thrown the Void into the sun, but remembers the Void is everywhere. As Bob ponders his next move, the Inhumans appear. Bob tries to tell them he just wishes to be alone, but the Inhumans attack! The Inhumans appear to have the advantage by mobbing The Sentry, but The Sentry shows his power and easily keeps all of them at bay. As Bob holds the Inhumans back, Crystal walks up and hands him a bag containing Black Bolt’s headdress. A puzzled Bob realizes it is a summons.

In Attilan, The Sentry meets with Black Bolt and his wife Medusa, who asks the powerful hero why he has come to the moon. The Sentry replies he just wanted to be alone to think and the Inhumans attacked him. Medusa tells The Sentry it is because they are at war with humans, who have betrayed them enough. The Sentry apologizes, telling them he was not aware of the Inhumans’ war and promises to leave right away. However, Medusa stops him and tells him their seers are reading The Sentry’s mind of a big battle involving the Inhumans, yet they have no memory of it. Bob says he isn’t quite sure how to explain, but the seer informs them that an evil mutant (Mastermind) made The Sentry erase everyone’s memories of him. Medusa then asks about a Civil War that Bob keeps thinking about. The Sentry sternly asks the Inhumans to stop reading his mind as it is something he is not comfortable with. The Inhumans agree and invite The Sentry to dinner to explain the Civil War. At a bizarre dinner, the Sentry explains the Civil War and realizes the immense impact it has had on the listening Inhumans. Medusa then decrees The Sentry will spend the night in Attilan.

Later that night, the Sentry prepares to go to bed when Crystal appears and offers some food. Crystal sits down and asks The Sentry if they were lovers, having spoken to Fhyty, the mind-reading Inhuman from before, recently. Bob tells her they were, after she got in a fight with Johnny Storm, and the two kiss. At that moment, Bob remembers his wife Lindy and breaks away from Crystal. Bob tells Crystal about his wife, but Crystal asks “But- Only on Earth, right?” Bob begins to explain when he is interrupted by a familiar voice. It’s Iron Man! Tony walks in and tells Bob they need him. Bob admits he doesn’t think he can fight his friends and asks Tony if he’s ready to kill Captain America, since he believes that’s the only way to really end the war. Iron Man tells The Sentry he’s not going to kill Cap, but stop him and help him open his eyes to the world changing again. Iron Man continues to convince Bob to join him when their conversation is cut short by Black Bolt and the other Inhumans, who arrest Iron Man for trespassing. Iron Man tells them he’ll be leaving right away and he just came for his friend as The Sentry steps out back in his costume. The two prepare to leave and Iron Man promises they will not return and not bring the Civil War to Attilan. The Inhumans agree, but warn them of the consequences if the war does come to them. As the two fly back to Earth, Fhyty remarks that its sad- the heroes aren’t even close to being ready for what their future holds.

Review: And we’re back to mediocre. After last issue, this one really comes across as bland and fairly uneventful. The important thing here is that The Sentry has finally picked a side. With him on the Pro side as well as the Thor Clone, it’ll be hard for the Anti-Side to really win. The starting monologue is actually pretty boring. It doesn’t tell us anything new about The Sentry and spends way too many pages catching up those who don’t know The Sentry. It even misses by not noting when The Sentry threw The Void into the sun (which was in his own LS), which I think is a more obscure detail than some of the other things in the opening. The use of Fhyty to give more background on The Sentry kind of works but is still boring a somewhat of a waste. The odd thing is, the Inhumans should at least know about Bob getting his life together and joining the Avengers since they were there for the fight. The dinner portion…for the one spread it lasted…was somewhat interesting. The reactions of the Inhumans show their somewhat “alien” culture and how word of mouth is constantly used for news. The Crystal portion just seemed thrown in there. It didn’t really serve much of a point. I will say, I’ll be done with Iron Man if he tries to blackmail Bob to stay Pro by telling his wife about kissing Crystal. Iron Man’s appearance is also kind of odd. He just appears in his bedroom. But the talk with the Sentry isn’t too bad. It does get kind of boring and reminiscent of every other speech Tony has given since Civil War started.

This issue was originally supposed to be by Adi Granov. But with his commitments to the Iron Man movie, the art duties were passed to Pasqual Ferry. I was somewhat disappointed by this since Granov is such a talented artist but usually sticks to covers. Plus, I get regular amounts of Ferry in Ultimate Fantastic Four. But, the art isn’t terrible. That said, it also isn’t really that good. Ferry’s pencils have never really impressed me. They look good for the spreads and close ups, but more of the other panels looks very vague and lack detail to the face. His style somewhat reminds me of Stuart Immonen, but much better. Crystal almost always looks off and The Sentry’s face often lacks definition. The other Inhumans look good for the most part. But the best page is definitely when Iron Man is talking to The Sentry. You see it close up on The Sentry’s reflection in Tony’s armor and then you see Iron Man’s reflection in The Sentry’s eye…in that reflection! Very cool. The real credit has to go to colorist Dean White. The far-out and unique coloring style really makes for a good space story. As such, White and Ferry’s work has worked really well with the Inhumans and Ultimate Fantastic Four. I firmly believe that Ferry’s art would not receive half the recognition it does without the great coloring.

While the Sentry is still a wimp, this issue shows a little hint that he’s building some confidence. But really, this issue is a lot of fluff that doesn’t add up to much. It doesn’t really add to Silent War except for mentioning the war with humans and it doesn’t really progress the ideals and plot of Civil War besides having Bob join up. Really, this tie-in is for Sentry fans and not at all needed for to understand any facet of Civil War. As optional reading, it comes off as fluff just like the first two issues of Disassembled. And with little story, it really just misses the mark and doesn’t really make a fun read. With little quality and no real need for Civil War purposes, I would give this issue a pass like the first two issues.