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Marvel's "Fear Itself"

I read a couple of Deadpool collections since he's getting really popular. I guess writing Deadpool can be cathartic to the writers - you can go really all-out on the humor - unlike (say) Spider-man where he's still a responsible hero and doesn't go all weird on the humor. With Deadpool - no gross-out humor is too gross for Deadpool. Some of it is too weird for me. But I quite enjoyed his fight with BullseyeAsHawkeye in the Dark Avengers related collections.
 
I like how in the new series he's even MORE disconnected from reality to the point that he has three different caption voices talking in his head and sometimes he hallucinates cartoon scenarios to the point where he doesn't know when he's in reality or not. Great stuff :lol:
 
Howard the Duck? And here I thought that bringing in Deadpool was taking it too far. :guffaw:

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I didn't see it in any of the solicitations but for an event called "Fear Itself" you'd think Man-Thing might get a one-shot like some characters get during these things.
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Press Release for "Fearsome Four" said:
Whoever knows fear burns at the touch of Man-Thing and, with the arrival of Fear Itself, he’s about to turn all of New York into a bonfire! But with Marvel’s mightiest pinned down by “The Worthy,” who can protect the Big Apple from the rampage of a creature that that’s more monster than man? Howard the Duck, She-Hulk, Frankenstein’s Monster and Nighthawk are out to extinguish the Man-Thing’s flame by means necessary as the all-new, all-outcast Fearsome Four!
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Thank you for posting that!! Now, the part that I don't like is that Man-Thing seems to be the antagonist of the series? Is that how anyone else reads it?
Also, how does this play out in ThunderBolts? He was shown willingly staying with the team in issue #154 afterall.

As a fan of Marvel's Monsters it's nice to see that Frankenstein's Monster is going to get some attention. He's been off radar awhile. Marvel easily could've used Werewolf by Night or Zombie. Heck even Living Mummy who got some recent play during Civil War.

I may be watching my monthly comic budget but I'll get this mini.
 
Hard to say about Man-Thing but that does seem like what it was implying. The Red Skull one shot comes out next week to kick things off. Should be interesting.
 
Maybe less "antagonist" and more "threat to be contained". You have to admit, that in a situation where everybody is experiencing their worst fears, Man-Thing is the last being that you want wandering the streets.
 
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Maybe less "antagonist" and more "threat to be contained". You have to admit, that in a situation where everybody is experiencing their worst fears, Man-Thing is the last being that you want wandering the streets.
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True. Can't disagree with that.
I'm looking forward to this Fearsome Foursome mini now!!
 
It's a fascinating premise but I've had it with Marvel crossovers after Shadowland. They took years of great Daredevil stories and flushed it down the drain with a horrible story and lame shock value for the sake of lame shock value. That's really all that Marvel crossovers are.

The fact that Matt Fraction is writing this is officially the storylines kiss of death. Fraction has done a TERRIBLE job writing Uncanny X-Men. Bad issues with horribly forced humor. The fact he's writing this storyline should be takne more as a threat than anything else.
 
Interesting comments regarding Fraction. I know a ton of fans (including myself) who love his work. Fraction and Hickman are among my top ten favorite writers right now. I will agree with you regarding "Shadowland" that started off with promise and ended with a colossal THUD. I was like WTF??
 
I can't judge Fraction on his other work. But he made Uncanny X-Men almost unreadable to me. I liked two issues but was very unimpressed with the title in general. I think the new direction for the X-Men is logical but I'm just not a fan of it.
 
His work on "Invincible Iron Man" is pretty awesome...and I have enjoyed his work on "Uncanny X-Men". I wish I could get into X-Men again, I just feel like the franchise has grown too large for me to properly follow.
 
I know what you mean. The team has gotten too large and it makes things extremely unfocused. Now it seems the team is going mainstream. I miss the old "outlaw" days.

I used to love Wolverine but he's been so overexposed in the Marvel Universe it's not even funny.
 
The only two X-Books I buy are the ones without an "X" in the title-- New Mutants (although I opted out of Age of X) and Generation Hope. I dropped Uncanny when the "Lights" story switched books over to Hope and I really haven't missed it.
 
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