In New Avengers, Emma Frost is helping Robert Reynolds and together they discover that the Void was a sort of mental block to prevent Reynolds from being The Sentry. Then in The Sentry volume two, it is told that Robert Reynolds himself is the Void and the Sentry is the created being.
So which one is true? Is Robert Reynolds evil and the Sentry was created by his conscious? Are they still the same person, or is the Sentry and Robert/Void different entities now? Why was Robert willing to work with Emma Frost in New Avengers if he was the Void? Was he hiding this from them, trying to play along like he was a victim in all of this?
Don't Expect A Bendis Story To Make Any Sense.
They are never internally nor externally consistant, nor do they feature linear storytelling, causality, or any of those other tiresome, oldfashioned, narrative devices.
Treat them like you would a story being made up by a four year old:
"then I had the power to remake reality then I flew to the sun and threw him in then I woke up and it was all a bad dream..."
There was a time a tried to pick up all of Sentry's books and try and figure out what the character is all about, and my conclusion: I'm more confused now than when I started, and I officially believe he is the worst Marvel character(story) out there right now.
In this instance actually, the waters were muddied significantly by the second Sentry volume, by Paul Jenkins. At the end of the Sentry arc by Bendis things mostly made sense, but it didn't last long. Robert Reynolds is all three of them, himself Sentry and the Void, but the Void actually has a separate physical form created, but with the same ill mind. That's how I understand it, anyway. As to whether the Sentry is the creation of an aspect of Bob's personality, and the Void the main personality, or vice versa, I'd say the jury is still out.
There's too much confusion over the whole Sentry bit. There are even people out there who truly believe Sentry was created by Stan Lee. The best thing to do is lookup Sentry on wikipedia and read about him there. It's less confusing then the comics themselves.
Geez, it's so simple. We've obviously all been hypnotized by Mastermind to be confused about the Sentry. Man, it's like I'm doing all the thinking here. :P
DK
(How about this for the next Marvel comic:
What If? The Sentry Storyline made sense?)
Watch them make an Ultimate sentry... a perfectly cool superman clone who works as a great comentary on golden and silver age stories... AND THE MESS IT UP 4 ISSUES LATTER. You know.... by tying him into the regular continuity sentry so he has double the crazy baggage or something.
I'm a huge Sentry fan, and no, I'm not entirely sure why. I read both volumes of his solo stuff, and the New Avengers, and I've come to only one conclusion. They really need to deteremine whats going on with this guy. Bendis tried an okay explanation, but made some stupid chocies (liek the whole "implanting memories into a comic"), and Jenkins just blurred the whole situation. I'd say, as things stand, the Sentry is pure good, the Void is pure evil, Robert is human, a balance of both, and all 3 work together inside the one character as a kinda of checks and balances thing. I think it has been made pretty clear that as long as there is a Sentry, there will be a Void, and Robert is just trying his best to balance it all out and do the most good he can, while still keeping the Void away.