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So Fear Itself is finally over (FI #7 spoilers)
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Basically what happened is: [Reveal] Spoiler: Click to Expand - Cap's militia holds the line as the Serpent advances towards the World Tree. - Stark hands over the Asgardian Weapons to the Mighty and they start beating up the worthy and various no-name henchmen in rapid-fire panels - The serpent turns into what I assumed was the Midgard Serpent but later I noticed dragon-like wings and arms on it. Fights Thor who gets separated from his armor. - Cap picks up Thor's hammer (Genuinely a cool page) and beats up Sin with it. - Odin's army starts invading Earth thinking that the heroes will fail - As Odin arrives...Without his hammer, Thor literally slays the Dragon/Serpent with Odin's sword. - When Thor kills the Serpent, the Worthy's hammers fly up int the air like they're going to scatter until Odin brings them down with his deus ex machina control of the hammers. - Thor stumbles away from the Serpents now-human looking corpse before dropping dead. - Avengers build a funeral pyre for Thor, Odin isn't present. - Odin transports his brothers body to Asgard where he says his role is to be his "Brothers Keeper. And we finally learn the Serpents actual name: Cul - Odin also apparently sealed off Asgard to a bunch, maybe all the Asgadrians leaving them stranded on Earth. - The dwarves repaired Cap's shield and reinforced it with Uru but it's still got the scar's of being shattered. Tony offers to buff them out but Cap says he prefers it like this. - Finally, obligatory Cap motivation speech about rebuilding Asgard, Manhattan and the world and how the Avengers will live to fight on. - Last pages, some no-name dick from Broxton who was a selfish bastard earlier in the series offers to help his neighbor with his lawn apparently inspired to overcome his fear and look forward to a better tomorrow or some other hippie shit like that. Epilogues aka ad's for new series spinning out of this: [Reveal] Spoiler: Click to Expand - The Fearless: A now-human Sin was rescued by followers to help them find the hammers - Aaron's Hulk book: Hulk has somehow forced himself to split with Banner - Battle Scars: A new character Marine, Marcus Johnston (possibly Wingman), is apparently the holder of a big MU secret that some Russians killed his mother over and are now hunting him for. Spymaster (think it was him) discovered this secret for them and was killed of in a flashback panel via a bullet to the head. Taskmaster, Paladin and Deadpool have been hired to bring him in along with 2 others who I have no idea who they were - Defenders: Nul, breaker of world who posessed the Hulk is now free after the Hulk resisted his control and destroyed his hammer. Hulk turns to Doctor Strange for help. |
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My main complaint is that this seemed to end abruptly and I feel like I should be waiting for an 8th issue even after all the epilogues. I give this event a 7 out of 10. |
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 The issue was enjoyable enough but it felt like it was the next to last issue of the series, rather than the conclusion. |
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[Reveal] Spoiler: Click to Expand Thor's already dead? How long was that return? 5 years? |
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We've known about the Mighty for ages and that was it - a few pages? Talk about anti-climatic. Cap uses Thor's hammer - this would have been cool if he hadn't already done it (and nothing will ever top Superman holding it). Thor's dead - this has been discussed for quite a while too. Everything else was just... not good. Cap's suicide run to open the book was poorly out of character. He was out there fighting gods with a pea shooter. Even if he was trying to buy time for the others, those efforts were utterly useless and doomed to fail. It gained nothing - hence suicide. What incredible luck that the heroes and Wolverine just happened to be the groups perfectly geared for the weapons made. What if Hawkeye or Strange died - Tony's toys would be a bit useless wouldn't they? And in the end, with the exception of Thor's sword, what good were the Mighty? Sure Hawkeye's let's him never miss but he does that anyway. What did Spideytron's weapon do? And I laughed out loud at Iron Fisttron's 'Chain Fighter Bust-a-Move #9a-6G.2'.  Now I can't stand Wolverine in the slightest - but what's his deal against Cap? His 'the hell with him' bit makes no sense. Odin closes off Asgard space in one panel and in the next Stark gets to visit Sfartelfeim?  I also love how they intersperse the story with all these televised scenes of fire fighters and rescue efforts finally starting up and how Joe Public finally begins to lift himself up. Very inspirational - until you notice that TV reporters have been working the whole time, as have their camermen, the guys in the truck, the people working sat the station, the workers at the electrical plants pumping the juice for the story to go out, etc etc etc. So basically what these scenes are saying is that it's the firemen and other rescuers that had been cowering in fear with everyone else getting along well enough to go to work.  What happened to the 'worthy'? Did they just got to leave (as two Hulk epilogues indicate) or were they taken in (the Sin epilogue)? And Mjolnir? They're going to burn it and be done with it? We just saw Cap can use it so why not give it to him? And the epilogues?  ONE WEEK (Marvel time) and Sin is already free? What the fuck? Hulk wants to be left alone - gotcha. Hulk goes to the Manhattan, the most populated city in America - don't gotcha. I'm beginning to think it's not Event Fatigue that's the problem - it's the Events themselves. Beautiful art though. |
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yeah, that was my biggest problem with it too. |
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Asgard and Sfartelfeim I believe are two different realms. remember its the 9 realms Odin rules Asgard. Sfartelfeim i believe is like Midgard. |
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He got a suit covered in some kind of spikes? Honestly, the Mighty concept would have worked better if it was actually given more depth. They get the suits, they fight in them mostly off panel, the Mighty weapons are thrown back into the vat at the end of the fight. Kinda useless.
I'm still trying to figure out how Red She-Hulk got there since she wasn't with the group last issue. It seems like that group changes by the panel, though so maybe it wasn't really that planned out. I'm still trying to figure out why Tony would make a weapon for her or why she would have even been on his mind. I can understand most of the rest but Red She-Hulk just leaves me scratching my head. Last we saw, she was in Brazil and I don't remember her ever even registering on Iron Man's radar. |
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I know that the cardinal sin of events (telling crucial plot points in other books) happened, but I really enjoyed it. The final battle was better than having a Bendis-like exposition about what's happening. My only other minor problem was not getting to see Cap pummel Sin. Still, it was a solid event. Best one in a long time (that's why Bendis shouldn't write them). |
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