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When Marvel’s Dark Reign event began immediately after Secret Invasion, I rolled my ideas at a comic titled
Dark Avengers. However, over the course of the last few months I’ve found myself enjoying reading about crazy-@#$ Norman Osborn and the Dark Reign has grown on me a little, especially Dark Avengers. the Thunderbolts have been promoted to Avenger status and have co-opted the mask identities of former, and even current Avengers like Bullseye wearing a Hawkeye costume, or Venom running around as Spider-Man. The Dark Avengers are basically a group of psychotic, murderous super-villains posing as heroes. Among the Dark Avengers ranks is the ultra powerful Sentry, who has provided the most interest for me in the series.

The dynamic between the Sentry, who constantly questions his own humanity and sanity, and Norman Osborn, who is simply trying to manipulate the Sentry for his own agenda by feeding him the whole “I know what it’s like to be crazy and misunderstood, but was able to overcome it” line. This is the thing that has had me coming back to the Dark Avengers, the psychological intrigue.

In the most recent issue, Norman Osborn faces a television interview where he is confronted with the fact that he was a known super-villain who was notorious for being bat-$#%! crazy after Clint Barton, the former Hawkeye, called him out in an interview of his own. Amazingly, Osborn shrugs it off by calling Barton out as a reformed villain, and that he himself has reformed by medically coping with the crazy Green Goblin within him. It appears that only the world’s super-powered population is savvy to the fact that Osborn is still evil and manipulative. The question is, how long until the big event when they try to take him down?

-Jim

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