Why is fear itself kinda forgotten as far as events go? I thought it was pretty good honestly after reading the miniseries and a few of the tie-ins.
Why is fear itself kinda forgotten as far as events go?
Why is fear itself kinda forgotten as far as events go? I thought it was pretty good honestly after reading the miniseries and a few of the tie-ins.
Because it was a bad company wide event that was originally meant to just be a Thor/Cap crossover made worse when everything had to tie into it, and it told a shitty story with dumb stuff in it like the forging weapons/armour to everyone
Oh yeah didn't brubaker use it to shill his OCs in the final battle? Also I think I remember Cap coming back but not really in it.
Also it fricked over the Thor comics in the long run.
Cap came back the year before Fear Itself
you know that's not really what's being described there right
anyway yeah the old nazi antarctica thing really sucked, the mechs would have just ended WW2 in days, the resources to build the base would have been better spent on the western front etc etc
it's a bad plot point in an otherwise competent but forgettable event
the hammer variants and the way they mutated the wielders was good, even if it looked a little samey after World War Hulks the year and more or less contemporary to Spider-Island etc
I didn't hate it, I just got tired of the endless b***hing here and comics in general being this grudging acceptance of annual events that everybody has to opt into for some reason, particularly as I think it ended the Heroic Age banner (or came not long after it ended) which had not gone on long enough after five years of Dark Turd shitpublishing; plus it was a Fraction book and I think overshadowed in his own works by Hawkeye coming right after, because Hawkeye was a better book, better conceit, heavily stylistic title that really felt like old-timey comics done in the modern era, instead of a giant event that will change everything forever
like I would rather a 30-issue book like Hawkeye that makes a minor change (two Hawkeyes simultaneously using the name just fine) and has fun with it than some fricking illustrated spreadsheet about canon so obscure even the writer and artist didn't really understand it
but compared to an actual event title Hawkeye was fricking Shakespeare in terms of depth and meaning
>Cap came back the year before Fear Itself
I think he was stuck as a SHIELD agent and finally got to use his shield again or something, not sure if finally got the costume back.
oh yeah that sounds about right, Bucky kept it for a while I think
No but the fact he some how made Autism rates skyrocket is an impressive power.
It's not a simple "ah 0.3% increase in autism diagnosis this year" it's a level on par with state wide disasters occuring at this point.
i don't want to read the whole thing because i can't find the full arc on getcomics. i don't want to download all the tie-ins separately, and go to some website to see what order to read them in.
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Agreed it was damn good.
The only tie in you really need to read is the Invincible Iron Man issues.
So?
Events like these are just like a sudden and pointlessly log intermission to anything else you might have been enjoying.
Events like these are a good way of getting an idea of when things are happening in different titles.
This panel always made me laugh as the Villains suddenly turned people Austist with "infected" blood.
>Why is fear itself kinda forgotten as far as events go?
One of the hammers just came back in the current Avengers book.
Because outside of the wrecking crew Thor characters don't interact with the rest of the Marvel Universe, so no one cares if a snake monster is trying to destroy the world.
>what if everyone had spiderman powers
>what if everyone had a thor hammer
>what if everyone was a hulk
>what if everyone was a venom
>what if everyone had an ironman armor
I would like to mock modern marvel for the oc-donut-steele fountain of ideas they have become but the truth is they were no better back in the day neither
Aside from this and Spider Island, what were the rest? Those sound fun
World War Hulks/Fall of the Hulks is one.
(The line gets blurry between the two, I think there might have been some delays)
The only thing I won't forgive to this event is destroying the avengers mansion forever, after that everything went to shit with the avengers unti the recent runs
Is that the one that introduced El Hermano de Odin?
Yep. I think it might have been in the lead-in to it.
To be fair, the Spider-Man one ended up being relatively good, at least in the end. The Hulk one... not so much I think, I remember the chronology being a bit messy, not sure if it was WWHs or Fall Of The Hulks that ended up being good enough.
Also, I fully believe at that point they were supposed to be grand finales before Disney took over and fricked everything up worse.
most events are memory holed
It was complete nothing as a story and overall had no lasting ramifications. Grey Gargoyle killed everyone in Paris and this was just completely ignored. The most lasting effect from the event was that Thor Girl decided humanity sucked in a tie-in and fricked off to space and hasn't been seen since.
>no lasting ramifications
Odin fricked off and left some three wives in charge of Asgard, which effectively ended a previously good run, before the event. I'm not sure Thor comics ever recovered after that point.
Oh, well Thor hasn't been worth reading since the Jurgens run so I don't care.