Posts tagged ‘new avengers’
The Secret Invasion
“Secret Invasion” is a comic book crossover storyline that ran through a self-titled eight issue limited series and several titles published by Marvel Comics from April through December 2008. The story involves a subversive, long-term invasion of Earth by the alien Skrulls. Capable of shapeshifting, the Skrulls have secretly replaced many of Marvel’s heroes with impostors over a period of years, prior to the overt invasion.
Continue Reading October 3, 2009 at 11:00 am Leave a comment
Dark Reign – Part 2
Following the events of the 2008 storyline “Secret Invasion”, Norman Osborn resigns as Director of Thunderbolts and disbands the team. Immediately afterward Osborn meets with the President and is given complete control of a new world peace-keeping organization, “H.A.M.M.E.R.” (as S.H.I.E.L.D.’s viability had been deemed compromised by the massive Skrull infiltration). Tony Stark is removed as Director of S.H.I.E.L.D., due to his inability to stop the Skrulls and his unwillingness to give up the list of secret identities of every registered SHRA member.
