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Marvel's "Fear Itself"

I tried following "Age of X" but dropped it after the first two issues. This is an alternate universe where I could care less about the character changes (which is why I've not bothered updating my thread) or the plot.
 
While I loved the "World's Most Wanted" storyline, all the other Iron Man stories have not wowed me. They're paced like a low budget movie with hardly any action, hardly any actual villains. Not my cup of tea.

As for Uncanny X-Men, I just got through the past several years of this mag, and it was pretty bad for a long time. I did enjoy the three big crossovers (Messiah Complex, Utopia, Second Coming), but aside from that it's been pretty forgettable. I do like the premise of living on an island off San Fran but the actual stories have not impressed. And once Hope got here from the future she became intensely uninteresting.

Still, Fraction's run is better than what came before it. Feint praise ;)

Back in the 90s, X-Men was all I care about. Now, I barely care about it. I find the Avengery books so much better.
 
First issue of X-Men I ever read was a Marvel Classics reprint of Uncanny X-Men #155. That was the one with the Brood. So I read a ton of X-Men during the Claremeont run and started following the new stuff when X-Factor rejoined the fold. I gave that up after two years (and comics in general) although I always loved the Claremont Uncanny X-Men run. Around X-Men 2 I started reading again during Morrison's run and Whedon's run, both of which I loved. The Second Coming storyline wasn't bad.

I'm actually a fan of a lot of the X-Men secondary books. New Mutants I enjoy and their last story arc was strong. I finally started reading the New Mutants Classics a year or two ago. I had never read them when I was reading the old Claremont issues. I loved them and it filled in a lot of the gaps from Uncanny. It was nice to read about an era of X-Men when everything wasn't so damn complicated with eighty thousand titles. I really enjoy Peter David's work on X-Factor. Good character interaction, funny, and I love the art. I've also very much enjoyed the new Uncanny X-Force.

Anyway, sorry to get off-topic there. Like I said, the premise behind Fear Itself sounds good but I'm way too leery of Marvel's crossovers at this point. Maybe I'll read the trade paperback.
 
^ The Red Skull in the one shot is the original Johan Schmidt, the one shot depicts an event that triggers the rest of the Fear It's Self event. Sin became the new Red Skull I think last year during an arc in "Captain America".
 
^ I thought it worked fine as a set-up or prologue, as you say. Though Sin's dialogue struck me as rather painful.
 
Writer Brandon Montclare talks about Fear Itself: Fearsome Four..

Some highlights...

Montclare: The Fearsome Four have come together to stop Man-Thing. With the events of Fear Itself, Man-Thing is about to explode--literally. Man-Thing isn’t evil — in fact he’s more mindless than anything else. But in a world completely scared stiff, he’s a ticking time bomb.
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Montclare: The important heroes have their eyes on the main onslaught in Fear Itself. So the Man-Thing threat might fly under the radar if not for Howard the Duck. Their history is essential to the story. And it’s more than just a NYC neighborhood Howard wants to save from inferno. Man-Thing is his friend, and Howard wants to bring him in safe. And if this is the time that Marvel’s avatar of fear has to be taken down, Howard wants to be the one to do it.
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Hmm, sounds a little like Underworld Unleashed. An evil god gives lame villains power upgrades. I'm still not terribly jazzed about the storyline, as I'm never really happy with magic/god stuff in the mainstream Marvel U, but hopefully these villain power ups might be permanent.

I just finished catching up on the recent issues of Cap America and Sin does not impress me as a central villain. So her plus some brand new god doesn't have me terribly excited.
 
Turtletrekker said:
Writer Brandon Montclare talks about Fear Itself: Fearsome Four..

Some highlights...

Montclare: The Fearsome Four have come together to stop Man-Thing. With the events of Fear Itself, Man-Thing is about to explode--literally. Man-Thing isn’t evil — in fact he’s more mindless than anything else. But in a world completely scared stiff, he’s a ticking time bomb.
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Montclare: The important heroes have their eyes on the main onslaught in Fear Itself. So the Man-Thing threat might fly under the radar if not for Howard the Duck. Their history is essential to the story. And it’s more than just a NYC neighborhood Howard wants to save from inferno. Man-Thing is his friend, and Howard wants to bring him in safe. And if this is the time that Marvel’s avatar of fear has to be taken down, Howard wants to be the one to do it.
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Not a Howard the Duck fan but very eager to read this!
 
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