Marvel's Newest Event - Fear Itself

So this event (Seven Issues) is being written by Fraction and drawn by Immonen.

Fear Itself press conference:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4nIDfHA1Y4

Breevort and Alonso talk about the event:
http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=29994

Some info about the event (All the Fear Teaser Posters included at the bottom):
http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=29984

Fraction's youtube video about the event:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBhfmylPlJ4

Fraction's blog about the event:
http://wordballoon.blogspot.com/

So

Spoiler:
Thor and Captain America will play a major role in this event. The main baddy is the Asgardian God of fear. Long ago, Odin cast him out, killed his followers, and destroyed his temples. Red Skrull's bastard of a daughter finds and sets him free I guess in modern marvel. So now the God of Fear wants Odin's throne.

I'm interested in where this goes. Hopefully

Spoiler:
Asgard isn't destroyed, again and Odin, Thor etc. kick ass.

Spoiler:
The God of fear: http://www.comicbookresources.com/prev_img.php?disp=img&pid=1292962498

Lame.

So my thread gets locked and this one stays open 😬

biscuits

Marvel can just stop with the events.

no!
events are nice and promote creativity.

😛

Wow, this could sound better. Hopefully the Fantastic Four will have a nice run next year ermm

how would he do against phobos?

Marvel is just spamming Cosmic events now. It's getting sad.

Uninspiring villains are uninspiring.

Marvel hasn't had a real event since siege, I'm looking forward to this. Apparently it's going to be a springboard for Dracula, I have no idea what he has to do with the God of Fear though.

Originally posted by Trackz
Marvel hasn't had a real event since siege, I'm looking forward to this. Apparently it's going to be a springboard for Dracula, I have no idea what he has to do with the God of Fear though.

Originally posted by Omega Vision
Didn't Marvel swear that Dracula had been killed off for good a few years ago?

I think I might be the only person on the planet who isn't a fan of Fraction's work. None of this looks appealing. The last couple of years have really steered me away from Marvel and towards DC which, as a Marvel zombie, is painful to admit.

Originally posted by willRules
I think I might be the only person on the planet who isn't a fan of Fraction's work. None of this looks appealing. The last couple of years have really steered me away from Marvel and towards DC which, as a Marvel zombie, is painful to admit.

IMO - they're both aweful at the moment. Long since gone are the mid naughties, when there were 5 - 6 runs from each company that were great.

When Infinite Crisis strated and Bendis was writing the "new avengers" for the first time, there were a lot of great books around. Now there is virtually nothing that keeps my attention. The only things that I get slightly excited about these days is Morisson on Batman, and Hickman on FF4. The rest is just ... well ... meh. 🙁

Originally posted by Cartesian Doubt
IMO - they're both aweful at the moment. Long since gone are the mid naughties, when there were 5 - 6 runs from each company that were great.

When Infinite Crisis strated and Bendis was writing the "new avengers" for the first time, there were a lot of great books around. Now there is virtually nothing that keeps my attention. The only things that I get slightly excited about these days is Morisson on Batman, and Hickman on FF4. The rest is just ... well ... meh. 🙁

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Did you come back from the alternate universe with Olivia or something because the mid 90s was when comics were collectively so bad (particularly at Marvel) that they almost destroyed to comic industry.

Originally posted by Omega Vision
Didn't Marvel swear that Dracula had been killed off for good a few years ago?

My dad looked it up and the only comic character that has been in like more then 20 comics that has stayed dead forever is uncle ben...

Originally posted by willRules
I think I might be the only person on the planet who isn't a fan of Fraction's work. None of this looks appealing. The last couple of years have really steered me away from Marvel and towards DC which, as a Marvel zombie, is painful to admit.

-raises hand- right there with you after what that **** did with x-men. i don't even read their books anymore, as they'd only make me mad.

Same thing with his work on The Punisher good thing Rick Remender came along to work on the 616 Punisher.

I used to love Bendis but post-Siege, not so much.

I could never see the hype behind Fraction's Iron-man, despite winning an Eisner. I didn't like his X-men stuff (although the Messiah trilogy was fun but a lot of that wasn't Fraction anyway!) Plus he was always off putting in every interview I've seen. He acts like such a douche.

This is the first time for a long time where I simply don't have the enthusiasm for a Marvel event. I hope I'm wrong and it turns out to be awesome. At least Stuart Immomen's art is great.

I found this thread looking for some other thread so I'll add my comment here:

This event will feature Red Skull and that makes it cooler by default.