Prime Time Geek

Jevon Phillips, an LA Times staffer and one of the contributing writers to Geoff Boucher’s The Hero Complex blog that I’ve often gushed about on this site, has posted images from Marvel’s upcoming Dark Reign advertising campaign, which presumably will start appearing in Marvel’s monthly books in the next week or two. Check out the images below – some of them are downright disturbing if you happen to be a long-time Marvel reader and, well, you don’t LIKE the bad guys. More on this after the images …

Yeah, it REALLY sucks to be Iron Man right now. And dammit, I always said Cyclops should have stuck to redheads.

I can’t even begin to verbalize how wrong THIS image is. And Wolverine’s kid has claws, Daddy’s costume, AND Daddy issues. Wonderful.

Loki’s machinations continue, and Venom BECOMES Spidey (To which poor Peter says, “Wait, WHAT?!”)

Well … wow.

It’s clear that Marvel, and in particular Brian Michael Bendis, is going to enjoy making us say over and over again “Oh, that’s just WRONG!” in the days and months to come. I’ve already been saying it about Hank Pym taking on the superhero name of his DEAD wife while teaming up with the robot he BUILT and programmed with his DEAD wife’s personality. But “New” Cap kneeling to the Iron Patriot a.k.a. Norman Osborn? Emma Frost going back to her evil ways and screwing over Cyclops and the X-Men? Loki getting the last laugh over Thor (this has already begun, as of last week’s EPIC Thor #600)?

DC Comics has some monumental events coming up this year, as well, but with all this going on for Joe Quesada and co. across the street, Marvel’s grip on market share in the comics industry, like Osborn’s now-iron grip over control of the Marvel Universe, is going to be tough to break.

Many thanks to Jevon Phillips and The Hero Complex for posting these!