Mighty Avengers #20 Cover

Even though Secret Invasion has been over for 2 weeks and all of us Marvel fans have been busily preparing for Dark Reign and sorting out our pull lists, many of us adding tons of new books, it fees like Dark Reign was really ushered in this week. One of the books that helped kick off the new Marvel status quo was Mighty Avengers. Not surprisingly, the Mighty Avengers are right in the middle of all the Dark Reign stuff.

This month’s issue of Mighty is officially called the epilogue to Secret Invasion, and while there’s a lot of the aftermath in this issue, it really feels like a new beginning. This is the last issue that Brian Michael Bendis is writing the series, but still, there’s a distinct tone of setting the pace of what is to come when Dan Slott takes over the book. Focusing mostly on Hank Pym and the death of Janet Van Dyne, this issue is at once heart-breaking and dramatic and, in my opinion, makes Dark Reign look all that much more exciting.

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Hello everybody and thanks for checking out my first article here at Destroythecyb.org! Back in July 2007, New Avengers #31 revealed that the Hand had been infiltrated by the alien race know as the Skrulls and Danny Rand asked the question, “What does this all mean?”

One year later, it all comes together in Brian Michael Bendis‘ new series, Secret Invasion. While it’s only been a few months, this truly epic saga is so vast that, before I review the latest issue, I’m going to bring everyone up to speed on the whole series.

After the break, my synopsis of the Secret Invasion plot so far. Warning: MAJOR SPOILERS.

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Ultimates 3 #5 Cover

I wrote a rant/review of Ultimates a few months back, in which I stated that I believed that people were not giving Jeph Loeb enough credit. I said then that people were knocking on him because he is not Mark Millar, who wrote the Ultimates so beautifully. I actually liked the first 4 issues of Ultimates 3. And somewhere in the months and months and months of delays between 4 and 5, this series went to shit.

In the last issue (don’t ask me how I remember this. I had to back track about 3 issues to remember what the fuck was going on), Magneto took the body of his daughter, the Scarlet Witch, back to the Savage Land with him. Half the Ultimates went to go retrieve the body while the rest stayed in NYC to figure out who shot her. In the process of doing so, they found out Hank Pym is creating robot replicas of all the Ultimates.

After the break, I say “WTF Jeph Loeb!?!?!?” a whole lot.

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If you don’t know, I’m a huge fan of the Ultimate universe and when the Ultimate Avengers movies came out, I went out and bought them and watched them. Of course, they are kid-centric so the story is a tad watered down, but I still enjoyed both of the movies. They made me giggle as to how spot on they were at times in the first movie and how much of Mark Millar‘s story they didn’t change. Steve Rogers (Captain America) was clean cut, Hank Pym (Giant/Ant Man) had anger issues, Tony Stark (Iron Man) was a drunk and blah blah blah it was all effing good. The second movie moved into a whole different story but it was all done very well. I loved it.

Now, after 2 movies, a new brand of a movie is coming out: Next Avengers: Heroes Of Tomorrow. The premise of the movie: When the world is in peril, it calls on Earth’s mightiest heroes: The Avengers. But in the future with all of the Avengers gone, who does the world call on?

More after the break.

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