(These binds take place at the same time as the recently updated Avengers vol 5-6 Dark Reign).

Dark Reign: Mercs

Most fight for money, some fight for power or fame. Others fight for the thrill while some have to fight just to stay alive. In the deadly new Marvel Universe Norman Osborn’s reign reaches far and wide. The New Thunderbolts are his Black Ops squad while rogue elements such as Deadpool become a constant thorn in his side.

Others such as Elektra and Spider-Woman whose lives have been devastated by the Skrull imposters try to find their place in the new Marvel Universe. As the only person to be studied and experimented on by the remnant Skrulls Elektra finds herself the center of Norman’s attention. While Spider-Woman leans on her rage, hate and self destruction as she hunts Skrulls for S.W.O.R.D. Can either women find the answers to their lives?

Follow the Thunderbolts in Secret Warriors and Deadpool in his series of binds!

Secret Warriors: Agents of Chaos

Nick Fury was the first person to discover the Skrull infiltration but threats to the world does not end there. Hydra has resurfaced and Fury has learned just how powerful the organization really is. With S.H.I.E.L.D dismantled and Norman Osborn in his old position Fury begins an intricate plot to protect the free world. But a third power has surfaced and may destroy both Fury and Hydra. Can the teenage Secret Warriors tip the scale in Fury’s favor? And once the battle begins how many of them will survive?

(Secret Warriors was supposed to run around 60 issues. But writer Jonathan Hickman decided to kick his story in high gear and end the series with issue 28. Since I went all out with volume 1 and included all kinds of related material it left volume 2 with very little material in comparison.  I would have bound it in one volume.)

You can also include the Mighty Avengers issues #13 and #18 from Secret Invasion which shows how Nick Fury recruited the team.

Thunderbolts appear in Agents of Atlas while the Secret Warriors go to war in Siege.

Agents of Atlas: 

hen Federal enforcers under the hand of Norman Osborn bust into an armory under control of the Atlas Foundation, Jimmy Woo’s Agents go head-to-head with the new powers that be.  Then as disturbing visions plucked from the malignant mind of Norman Osborn lead the intrepid Agents to the darkest depths of the Atlantic Ocean, where Namora must have words with her infamous cousin – The Sub-Mariner! What happens next shocks her team, who must prepare to say goodbye to their aquatic avenger!

Dark Reign: War Machine/Black Panther 

The Black Panther is back… and she’s badder than ever! That’s right – she! What happened to T’Challa? Who is the new Black Panther? Find out why the female is the deadliest of the species! Wakanda has been attacked on every front. Heroes have fallen, old alliances have been betrayed, the country is in turmoil.

After stopping mercenaries from using a re-purposed Sentinel to slaughter innocents, Jim Rhodes decides that for his next mission, he’ll do what no court in the land will: bring the corrupt conglomerate responsible to justice! But before he can do that, Norman Osborn introduces the Dark Avenger known as Ares into the mix to take on War Machine!

Incredible Hercules: Incredible Adventures

In the wake of World War Hulk, the Mighty Avengers are hot on the heels of unrepentant renegades Hercules and Amadeus Cho. Driven into a mindless berserker rage by Ares, Herc has become the critical piece of Cho’s plan to utterly destroy S.H.I.E.L.D. What is Cho’s master plan to wipe out the spy agency…and is he willing to get Herc killed to do it? Follow Hercules and Amadeus through their many incredible and perilous adventures! Witness the creation of the most powerful super-team ever assembled to counter-attack the Skrull gods! Marvel as the Prince of Power takes the fight to his villainous stepmother Hera and the forces of the Olympus Group as she unleashes the most terrifying threat the Marvel Universe has ever seen! And when terrible threats rise in Svartalfheim, the land of the Dark Elves, only Mighty Thor, Son of Asgard, can hope to triumph! But what happens if the Odinson is temporarily…unavailable? It’s Hammer Time for Hercules as the Lion of Olympus gets his thunder on!

Dark Reign: Ms. Marvel / Dark Wolverine 

WAR OF THE MARVELS begins! Karla Sofen battles for her life in the streets of Los Angeles as an exciting new chapter in the history of Ms. Marvel begins! Guest starring the New Avengers and…someone we can’t tell you about.

He’s got the costume. But not the character. He’s got the claws. But not the compassion. He’s got the healing factor. But not the heart. He’s everything his dad feared himself capable of being, but never wanted to be — the inverse of the real Wolverine: Cold. Ruthless. Clinically savage. And now he’s Norman Osborn’s shiny new toy in the Dark Avengers, with unbelievable power at his command — all the way to the tips of his razor-sharp claws.

Captain Britain & the MI-13

The Skrull Invasion isn’t restricted to the US. When the Skrull Invasion hits England, only Captain Britain and MI13 stand in their way. Can they find out what the Skrulls are after before it’s too late?  Then the king of the vampires is back! As if the hoards of demons that Pete Wisdom let out in order to defeat the Skrulls in England weren’t enough, now DRACULA has entered the scene. What does he want with Spitfire? And how will an election help his cause? You better hope that Captain Britain and the rest of MI13 have a way to defeat him!

Dark Reign: Dark Reflections

The Melter, The Executioner, The Enchantress, Egghead, Big Zero, and Coat of Arms: they call themselves the Young Avengers, teenage rebels, on the run from the authorities, hated and feared by a world they’ve sworn to protect. Their interests include interspecies romance, modern art, and bloody murder. Everything is permitted, and so are they. Until they meet the original Young Avengers. And then their grey areas will come home to roost.

Mr. Negative has carved out a substantial slice of the big apple for himself over the past year. But when the super-villain mastermind The Hood strikes at the heart of Mr. Negative’s criminal operations with a whole horde of classic Arachno-Foes (including The Scorcher, Speed Demon, The Squid and the long awaited return of the White Rabbit), Spider-Man is left to clean up the mess between these two violent nemeses.

He ain’t friendly and this ain’t your neighborhood! Yes, Mac Gargan, America’s favorite sociopath-turned-symbiote-host-turned-hero-hunter now takes the spotlight as Norman Osborn’s sinister Spider-Man. Now, Mac’s a beloved hero, but nobody wants to run into him after midnight because the symbiote is still pretty darn hungry.  Plus more stories from the Dark Reign era!

Continues in Siege!

Back to Avengers Volume 5-6: Dark Reign!

Back to Secret Invasion!

I have adjusted the reading order of the books from my chronological listing of Siege for pacing purposes since I also split it into two volumes.

Volume 1 First Blood

Beginning with the ravaging effects of Avengers Disassembled and following the aftermath of House of M, Civil War and Secret Invasion, culminating with the evil Reign of Norman Osborn, the Marvel Universe has been left with its greatest villains holding more power and control than ever before. On the brink of madness, Osborn, in his final bid to take total control, targets the final obstacle in his mission…Asgard.

Events are set in motion forcing our heroes to put aside the deep rifts that have grown over the past seven years. Opposing them stand a horde of evil that has begun to take down the gods of the Golden Realm! SIEGE will rock the foundations of every super hero, villain and team in the Marvel Universe. Witness the end of an Avengers era as the clouds start to part and the Dark Reign comes to a close…

Volume 2 Fall of Asgard

The storm that is Dark Reign intensifies as Norman Osborn rallies every single super power at his disposal to invade Asgard. He has ruled the Marvel Universe with an iron fist but this time he may have gotten in over his head. The warrior race that is the Asgardians will not yield nor surrender and when the heroes join the battle things actually get worse. It all ends here! Plus: A lingering menace created by fiendish Loki as an afterthought returns to wreak havoc on the Asgardians! Can Thor and his unlikely allies defeat this devastating force of destruction?! Or in their weakened state after the battles of Siege, will this new, ancient enemy prove too strong?

Onto Avengers vol 7-12 the Heroic Age 

Back to Avengers vol 5-6

Back to Dark Reign Marvel Universe!