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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