Rushed event feels...rushed. SO Thor gets told he can't defend the mortals and his father whoops his butt and takes him back to Asgard. Then Sin (Red skulls daughter) finds the hidden weapon her father summoned years ago. A Hammer that gives her massive power. With it she also gives it to Hulk and The Thing and more to join her evil army. Tus the big fight begins of people dressed in big armor fighting with huge overweight weapons. Good: The art is pretty solid throughout and there's some really...

Maybe 2.5 stars. This one is a hard one to review. I didn't love it, and yet I can't really pinpoint what's wrong with it. There are lots of heroes, but no one is really given time to shine here. Really, this whole event just seems like an excuse to give everybody "kewl" magic weapons and armor and have them beat the hell out of each other for a bit.There are a few important deaths that may have been impactful at the time, but reading it now you know these people all came back shortly after this...

There's both good and bad here. As far as crossover events, it's probably a solid B+. Not bad, not bad at all.Probably the worst thing about this event is just how thin it feels. Obviously, a lot of the important stuff has been farmed out to other titles, and it feels that way reading this. Probably inevitable, let's be honest, and not really something I hold against a big event. But it could feel more cohesive and less fragmented.There's a lot of action, and very little substance. Big deaths wi...

2.5 starsUgh.... *sighs heavily*. Well, kids, I've put this off for so long. I skipped right over it and went to Avengers v. X-Men when I was on my events kick and I don't regret that. This is mediocre, if I'm being nice.It's hard for me to pinpoint what exactly didn't work for me with this book. It had the key elements for an event I like: Steve, Tony, Thor all alive and on pretty okay terms with each other. A writer I love (Fraction) and some fantastic art. It was even at a time when the Aveng...

Someone has been locked away at the bottom of the ocean. A riot breaks out and turns ugly. This person who has been locked away, feeds on fear. The roost created some and gave this person the spark needed to wake up. They’ve sent some weapons down and the people who touch them come under his control. He uses them to cause pure chaos around the globe creating fear in order to regain his strength. A pretty generic plot. The art was great and their were some cool fights but the story was kind of si...

I couldn't be bothered to list all the books separately so I've reviewed them all under this main book - I read Fear Itself (FI) #1-7, Homefront #1-7, Youth in Revolt #1-5, Spiderman #1-3, Wolverine #1-3, The Deep #1-4, Hulk vs Dracula #1-4, Deadpool #1-3 and 7 one-shots! These are the main story arcs from Marvel's 2011 main event the resurrection of The Serpent and the heroes stand against fear, itself. There are a few high points, but a lot of mediocre stuff in here as well. As ever it is the

When Jack Kirby was involved with Marvel back in the sixties, he (and Stan Lee) explored various mythologies and greatly expanded on the Norse stuff for the Thor stories. I think in some ways this mega-multi book crossover is a tribute to those days. It involves Odin, Thor, Asgard and the Serpent, Odin’s brother.Be forewarned about this collection, although the story telling is fairly linear (for mega-multi book crossovers), this is only the bare bones story. A lot of the developing plotlines, e...

I liked this a lot. Some of the dialogue was iffy but the art was good. I'm a big Thor fan so it was a pretty easy sell for me.

I think this book was written to serve as a means of commenting on our current (er well, more like 2011) political climate... and I guess it sort of does, but the story is lackluster and so the message falls a little flat. Not terrible, but not a Marvel Universe event worth reading.

Fear Itself was a major crossover event that Siege was not. Seven issues by Matt Fraction and Stuart Immonen, plus a lengthy epilogue that was also a miniseries. Like Siege, it was a Thor-centric story given that the villain had a vague Norse origin and his avatars have faux Asgardian Kirbyesque design. It was definitely a retelling of the Ragnarok cycle, something Walter Simonson did twice in his legendary run on Thor. Fear Itself centered on the part of myth where Thor battles the Serpent and

I remember when this came out in 2011, and I fully brought into the hype behind it. At the time I was very invested in marvel comics and I'd just discovered Matt Fraction and Stuart Immonen as creators, so I was excited for the event. Reading it now, 6 years later, I still really enjoy it. I think the problem it had at the time is that it was being built as a big marvel universe event, when I think it's better read as a Thor story that also includes the other Avengers. I've recently been rereadi...

This was such an epic read!It starts with the prelude of Sin going to her fathers secret and finding the hammer of Skadi and then releasing Cull Borson, the god of fear and Odin's brother and then we follow Strange powerful hammers falling on Earth and finding heroes who lift it and become transformed under Cull's spell and Fear is unleashed, the Midgard Serpent is here, Thor's archnemesis and thus what happens to Bucky, why is Odin Scared, what will be Thors fate and can Avengers prevent the en...

Brubaker's writing on the prologue is positively awful - just riddled with cliched dialogue, and the art isn't much better. I should say the colouring is bad, though the pencils/inks are decent.After a few issues of repetitive face-pounding on all sides (boy does that get old), and one significant "death", the climax finally starts to build - we finally get to see something new happen, and original dialogue get spoken. And I find myself excited at the climax (and new premise - a weapon for each

As President Franklin Roosevelt famously said, “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. Oh, but if the Red Skull’s daughter Sin resurrects an ancient Asgardian called the Serpent who launches a worldwide campaign of terror and destruction that even all the Marvel superheroes can’t stop, it’s OK to be afraid then because you’re pretty much screwed.”Here we’ve got another giant crossover from Marvel, and it’s actually got some good moments in it thanks to writer Matt Fraction. There’s inter...

I haven't been able to finish a real book in over a month, so I read this instead. Sue me...Now I don't really have time to keep up with what's going on in the Marvel Universe, but I can tell you this at least: Asgard has crashed into the middle of Oklahoma, and it's making a big mess.And apparently someone at Marvel has resurrected the old Journey into Mystery title from back in the day, and I like that because it had some interesting content when I was a kid, and I always loved the name.But th...

Well, this was...interesting. I stayed away from this on it's original release in early to mid 2011 as there were too many tie-ins and it seemed too big. This UK collection contains the prologue by Brubaker and Eaton and the original 7 issue main series by Fraction and Immomen but NOT the additional 3 part epilogue (more on that later). The prologue is an a typical example of Modern 21st Century Big 2 comics. It's a well crafted tale and the art is okay but it's tied into an ongoing narrative (n...

Something has Odin spooked. Spooked enough he's ready to beat Thorand destroy the Earth. An ancient powerful enemy known as The Serpent has returned. He is armed with magic hammers that possess fighters with the spirits of fallen warriors.So I'm not sure if I didn't like this because I don't care for Asgardians or if it's because the general story was lacking. This was the general the world is ending, what will we do?! I'm so indifferent that I don't really have anything good or bad to say. Desp...

Another year, another Marvel comics event. The concept this time around? Odin's brother has become free for the first time in centuries from his underwater cell and with the help of eight magical weapons, he turns heroes into super-villains with the power to destroy the Earth! Avengers! Assemble!It's not the best setup given its just superheroes fighting for the entire book. The good guys sustain some losses, a couple of major characters die (but you know they'll be back, as ever), but eventuall...

I was so disappointed by this crossover. I mean, it isn't terrible by any means. The action is nearly constant and escalates very well. The stakes are incredibly high, and actually FEEL high this time around. I genuinely felt like any single hero could die in this fight. It's just, the idea behind it is so good, and I just felt the premise itself was completely squandered in favor of a ton of punching.The setup is this: Odin's evil brother, "The Serpent," has awakened after a millennia-long impr...

3.5 stars. I loved the drawings, they were pretty impressive! The story was okay, enjoyable but not too hooking.