Darkest Reign
“In Darkest Reign. In undelivered plight. No Marvel idea shall be executed right!” – one of murs47′s braincells
Everyone loves an underdog. So, when I read what Marvel wanted to do post Secret Invasion I was pretty excited about the position it would put our heroes in. A villain becoming the director of the planet’s global security force certainly puts our heroes in a corner. Norman Osborn with absolute power = super-heroes dying, mutants being enslaved, or any other horrific act we can think of, right? No, it doesn’t. It means we’ll be reading about an underachieving psychopath that probably couldn’t put paper in a printer.
So what went wrong? First off, the simple decision of labeling this short era was a mistake. That in itself raises expectations dramatically. But more importantly was that there was no loss of hope for heroes overcoming this “Dark Reign”. Yeah Norman was legally in charge but he lost every single battle in every single title. He, his Thunderbolts, and Dark Avengers pretty much got beat up by Deadpool. Deadpool is in an idiot! How is he manhandling the planet’s best clandestine operation and its most dangerous operatives? How!
Marvel , what you had in your hand was a golden opportunity to put our heroes back to square one and make them the underdogs again. Instead, you failed. Nice job!
*sigh* At least Secret Warriors is awesome.
about 9 months ago
Hey…it’s another badly executed “event” by Mr Bendis…Just add it to his ever-growing list of “event” flops.
I really wasn’t expecting much from it, just as I wasn’t expecting much from Stupid Invasion (Marvel execs even warned us going in, that SI was just a lead-in to another bigger “event”).
Nearly all of these so-called “events” seem to pan out to feel like massive wastes of time and comic-buyer money. The only recent Marvel events that have borne any fruit are those of the cosmic sort…And Mr B has nothing to do with those…Interesting.