Marvel’s Next Big Thing
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.
I can see the Cold War comparison, since the Initiative was basically the stockpiling of super-human weapons in some paranoid arms race against the faceless villains.
I hope this means a return of dark comics of the ’90s and we get more Punisher, Ghost Rider, Morbius and maybe Jubilee with machine guns.
Maybe they’ll bring back Dark Hawk, too. Maybe it’ll be in a special polybag issue with gold-embossed cover. That’d be so awesome.
I keep thinking of Chubby Rain.
I keep thinking of Chocolate Rain.
Maybe this means that at the end of Secret Invasion, it’ll be the Day That Evil Won.
I hope Nick Fury looks up to the sky at the end and says “Gotcha, suckas.”
I hope that midway through, somebody delivers the titular line by turning to the camera and saying, “Man, I really am tired of this…Dark Reign.”
I hope Luke Cage gets mad that the white superheroes get all the good lines.
Jim, there is no better line that “Sweet Christmas!”