Okay so last week Secret Invasion came to a close with issue #8 and it ends on the whole “Dark Reign” theme that will now be the new paradim for Marvel Comics for the next year or so.*yawn*

What I am about to mention next cannot really come as much as a surprise to many who read this blog but come’on people – Secret Invasion was not a great Marvel event book. Not even close. Sure it had a great deal of momentum and I was caught up in that in the early beginnings like a chump but when the spotlight hit the stage… well, I found it obvious to see where all the trap doors were and the likes. It got boring awfully fast, it went from Oh Yeah?! to hurm! in one issue and the Eight F***KING MONTHS OF AVENGERS BOOKS WITHOUT AVENGERS IN THEM >ahem< so this got me thinking that Secret Invasion is much like Britney Spears new album Circus. Why is that you ask? Well check this out, this is the cover of her new album

Okay now let us have a closer look at Britney herself with out all the pretty lights, make up and no air brushing…

You see this is how I feel about Secret Invasion, sh**t – even other comic events Final Crisis and Batman RIP rolled in together. You get this great idea pitched out there and then what you really get is such a let down, so boring, predictable (I f**ked called S.H.I.E.L.D. ending well before SI even began!!!) or unfinished that it leaves that bad taste in your mouth, wishing you never bought the books in the first place.

Now this whole Dark Reign crap that is about to begin for Marvel Comics. I just hope they manage to keep it out of the cosmic books like Nova & Guardians of the Galaxy ’cause then it won’t ruin the books that I like to read. Am I interested in where Dark Reign is going to go? Sure but you would be crazy to think that Marvel is going to stay on anything so Dark, Evil and Bad for so long so I guess what the upside to Dark Reign is that everything will be bright, fluffy and back to pre-Civil Bore Marvel Universe when the heroes come back and save the day.

As fun as that sounds, I have a hard time believing that Dark Reign will end in any way better than Civil Bore, House of Bendis, Avengers: The New Marketing Gimmick or The Secret  Skrulls.

If you need more Dark Reign fix, you can check out the preview of pages that are out this week here:
http://community.livejournal.com/scans_daily/6700088.html

Maybe… just maybe all this is due to my consumption of too many back pain meds. Unlikely but could be the case, maybe Secret Invasion is really a good book and I am… okay who the f**k am I kidding with that? SI wasn’t worth they hype (check out the poll on Newsarama for more thoughts on that) Marvel Marketing Machine just keeps churning it out and I am betting everyone is wacking off thinking its going to be fricken great just like they would wack off to the cover of Britney Spears Circus album when the real life shot of Britney is what they will end up with in their hands (holy sh**t that’s a long sentence!). So NO, even though BtS will end, I wouldn’t be pimping out Dark Reign even if Bendis left and it was written by Marvel Apes!

Oh and I forgot to mention that Brian Bendis even got to finally kill a member of the other gender and an Avenger to boot! Good for him, I hope he got his rocks off on that. Joy. What’s next, Norman Osborn and Loki get it on? Oh wait… Loki’s a chick now? Aw fu…!