The end of an Avengers Era.  Things have come full circle as writer Brian Michael Bendis mends what he reaped.  Years ago when he started writing the Avengers he effectively disassembled them.  Now years later events fall into place that finally brings Captain America, Iron Man and Thor back together as a team!  This two volume set ends the Dark Reign Era of the Marvel Universe and includes every tie in as well as the epilogue Thor story arc.

I have adjusted the reading order of the books from my chronological listing of Siege for pacing purposes since I also split it into two volumes.

Volume 1
Siege Origins Extras (origins of characters)
Avengers: Initiative 31 (1/2) stop Osborn “promotion”
Siege: The Cabal
Avengers: Initiative 31 (2/2)
New Avengers 61
Siege 1 (1/3) stop Ares “Armor and All”
Siege: Embedded 1
Siege 1 (2/3) stop Ares pre war speech
Avengers: Initiative 32 (1/2) stop before battle on Asgard
Siege: Embedded 2
Dark Wolvy 82 (1/2) stop “told you”
Siege 1 (3/3)
Avengers: Initiative 32 (2/2)
New Avengers 62
Dark Wolvy 82 (2/2) – 83 (1/2) stop “I’ll give him a god”
Thor 607
Mighty Avengers 35
Dark Avengers 13-14*
Siege 2
Avengers: Initiative 33
Dark Wolverine 83 (2/2) – 84
Dark Avengers 15
Siege 3 (1/3) stop arrival of villains “not ours”
Avengers: Initiative 34 (1/2) stop villains teleport out
Siege: Secret Warriors
Siege: Spider-Man
Siege Embedded 3 (1/2) – stop after they crash
Thunderbolts 141
Siege 3 (2/3) stop fall Asgard
Avengers: Initiative 34 (2/2)
New Avengers 63
Siege Embedded 3 (2/2)
Siege 3 extras (Maria Hill’s White House Report)
Siege: Storming Asgard

Volume 2
Thunderbolts 142
Siege: Young Avengers
Siege: Captain America
Mighty Avengers 36 (1/2) stop “I know just where to start”
Thunderbolts 143 (1/3) stop “what are you going to do with that?”
Thor 608
New Mutants 11
Siege: Loki
Thor 609
Siege 3 (3/3)
New Avengers 64 (1/3) Masque “What just happened?”
Siege 4 (1/3) stop Thor & the Sun
Siege Embedded 4 (1/2) stop “new heroic age is beginning”
Avengers: Initiative 35 (1/4) stop Hood Drives off
New Avengers 64 (2/3) single page Loki “father please”
Mighty Avengers 36 (2/2)
Thunderbolts (2/3) stop “most hunted on Earth, I expect”
Avengers: Initiative 35 (2/4) stop Tigra “and I’ll be waiting for it.”
New Avengers 64 (3/3)
New Avengers Finale (1/3) stop Spider-Woman “Look at that…”
Siege 4 (2/3) stop White House page
Dark Avengers 16 (1/2) start with cover then “Yesterday” page, stop Daken driving off.
New Avengers Finale (2/3) stop Steve Rogers “It’s over. You won.”
Siege 4 (3/3)
New Avengers Finale (3/3)
Avengers: Initiative 35 (3/4) Avengers Tower scene (skip Tigra/Hood scene)
Siege Embedded 4 (2/2)
Avengers: Initiative 35 (4/4) Tigra/Hood Scene
Thunderbolts 143 (3/3)
Dark Avengers 16 (2/2) start with title page then skip to “Avengers Tower” page onward
Thor 610
The Sentry: Fallen Sun
Thor 611-614
What If? 200 Siege (1/2) stop at the end of Watcher story
What If? Dark Reign
What If? Fallen Son (should have been placed after Secret Invasion)
What If? Secret Invasion (should have been placed after Secret Invasion)
What If? 200 Siege (2/2)

*These issues take place before Siege #1 and after Siege: The Cabal. I like the slow reveal of what happened to the Sentry so I’m putting these Dark Avengers issues right before we see him in Siege.

Onto the Heroic Age!