Marvel’s Next Big Thing


dark reign

Last night, Marvel Comics announced their next big company-wide brand title that will be popping up on all of our favorite comics following Secret Invasion. That title, in case you were still wondering after that ominous logo above, is “Dark Reign.” It’s being compared to the Initiative brand, which stemmed from Civil War, and is being heralded as changing the status quo in the entire Marvel Universe once again, which is wont to happen every year or so.

Brian Michael Bendis, the man behind Secret Invasion, has this to say:

The Initiative was kind of like the Cold War. There’s a war, and then there’s a cold war. This was an invasion, and from the invasion, certain people take the hit, certain people rise up as the heroes who you wouldn’t expect, and from that comes a new power status in the Marvel Universe that some would consider a dark reign and some would consider heaven. One man’s dark reign is another man’s ‘Finally!’

I’m not sure how The Initiative was like the Cold War, since there wasn’t a known enemy that the Marvel heroes were trying to intimidate or outmaneuver, but, then again, I slept through most of my history classes in high school and college.

Even though it’s silly to guess how all of this plays out, I’m still going to conjecture that the title “Dark Reign” is actually a pun, and Storm is going to rule the Universe in what many will call the “Dark Rain.”

Oh, ouch, that was awful. Sorry.