In Secret Invasion: War of Kings, the Inhumans have successfully invaded the Kree empire. No surprise here. I mean, come on. We’re talking about a whole race of superpowered freaks living in a city that turns into a rad space ship here. Not even Ronan the Accuser can resist kneeling before the king of the Inhumans, the super awesome and super pissed Black Bolt.

That’s right, beeyotch. Bow down to the king! Bow down to Blackagar Boltagon!

Let us also note that before the Inhumans conquered the Kree empire, they decimated the remaining Skrull fleet (the douchebags who fled after their Secret Invasion failed), trespassed on Shi’Ar space and crushed three of their Warbirds. That’s badass.

If the rest of War of Kings is as flashy and epic as this, I say BRING IT!

After being slightly underwhelmed by the Civil War tie-ins a couple of years ago, I swore to just stick with the main Secret Invasion book and probably pick up a couple of tie-in issues. I’ve been seriously considering breaking that oath for the past few weeks because I really want to get the SI issues of New Avengers and Mighty Avengers, and I’ve already picked up the Secret Invasion: Fantastic Four. Now, looking at Marvel’s August solicitations, I just know that I’m bound to get into most of the Secret Invasion action. Here are three minis that will drop in August that lured me into the dark side:

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