But you have to admit that the latest move from House of Secret Ideas has to end up in the “stupid” column. I can almost see the egos when I look out my window and I live in Puerto Rico.

Fine. Then my orders are classified until the release of your solicits. Play your schmucky little mind games, Joey, but I ain’t orderin’ crap sight-unseen. Solicit-unseen. Whatever. And if you don’t have solicits up by the time my pre-order needs to be sent in, then I’ll skip the entire event.

I’ve absolutely had it up to –

– here with Marvel’s “secrecy” bunk. If they can’t at least say something like, “After the events of SECRET INVASION, Ms. Marvel looks to pick up the pieces. But she’ll have to turn to special guest star X when the unexpected happens!”, a blurb which gives away absolutely nothing but a secondary character’s name, why even bother soliciting the book at all? Bad enough that folks have to order two months out, but now we have to order two months out BLIND, too???

No. No more. (Oh, and don’t even get me started on the FF special — apparently without any connection to SI — that also can’t be solicited with so much as a hint of the contents. Heck, it can’t even be solicited with the cover artist’s last name. No. Just… no.)

Never mind Astonishing not being solicited I’m more concerned about when we’re to going to see an Avengers story or two. After 8 months of SI they’re jumping into Dark Reign. We’ve more Avengers titles than ever with the uniting theme being the Avengers not being in any of them. I like Bendis but I want the Mansion, a Chairman and some two-dimensional villains intent on conquering the universe simply because they can for a change. Oh well maybe Cornell can do it with MI-13.

Plus, we have definitive proof of Joe Quesada’s complete incompetence: NO ASTONISHING X-MEN HAS BEEN SOLICITED! Well, that’s shocking.