Marvel's "Fear" Event - Part 1

[TheCorpulent1]

Somebody's delusional.....

For reals. That was one of the most ridiculous things I've ever read...

 

[plushbug]

Somebody's delusional.....

For reals. That was one of the most ridiculous things I've ever read...

God's nightgown. Yes.

And here I am hoping Cap might be inspired to succeed in ripping Odin a new one in 20 words or less, on the topic of his deficiencies as god and father, because I can't think of anyone who should be better qualified as man and friend...

while suspecting the odds are substantially in favour of our being handed yet.another.off.the.wall.dialog.clanger of some sort. And here we go with the silly armour again.

 

[Drz]

I really hope this book delivers with it's story. Love the idea of reading about Valkyrie and Sin.

 

[Franklin Richards]

There's my girl. Love the tagline.


People forget that she is an angel.

 

[Colossal Spoons]

Damn I love Val!

 

[04nbod]

Because his intentions are usually good. He's just a phenomenally terrible father.

He's a phenomenally terrible 'man' hence his inability to be any sort of decent role model to his sons. One has Odin's arrogance and the other has his learned his machievellian mind. Its a good job Balder didn't know his parentage!

Odin should have learned to let things be by now because everything he does harms his children one way or another.

 

[Vartha]

There's my girl. Love the tagline.


People forget that she is an angel.

LOVE it!!!!!

 

[Vartha]

Because his intentions are usually good. He's just a phenomenally terrible father.

hehehe "ol' one eye" says it ALL hahaha

 

[Franklin Richards]

He's a phenomenally terrible 'man' hence his inability to be any sort of decent role model to his sons. One has Odin's arrogance and the other has his learned his machievellian mind. Its a good job Balder didn't know his parentage!

Odin should have learned to let things be by now because everything he does harms his children one way or another.

hehehe "ol' one eye" says it ALL hahaha

Here's the part where I point out his negligence towards Brunhilde as well.

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How sad. He felt so bad he cried.


Bah!

 

[TheCorpulent1]

I really like the angel/demon theme in that Fearless promo pic. I just hope the writers do a good job with Valkyrie. She's been boring in Secret Avengers because Brubaker just uses her as the muscle.

 

[Nightwing Z]

Just read Fear Itself #1-5. So, after this run, Fearless is next? I'm loving the story so far.

 

[Nightwing Z]

Wait a minute... I'm also reading its Spider-Man mini and I was wondering... How the hell did Spidey get a phone in issue 1 when he has no pockets? O.O

 

[Drz]

Just read Fear Itself #1-5. So, after this run, Fearless is next? I'm loving the story so far.

Both Fearless and Battle Scars.

Marvel's Next Big Thing: The Fearless
The Fearless #3 Cover:

It seems Matt Fraction pitched the stuff, but Bunn is writing the Fearless:

Bunn is writing each script for "The Fearless" based on the noted the team came up with together. "I write the scripts and then feel like I'm going to throw up until I get notes back from everybody," the writer joked as Yost explained that he's often there for moral support. The team enthused over the speed that Bagley brings to his pages and how that helped up the game of Pelletier. "Paul is moving at a really fast clip...but he's constantly operating under this weight of 'I have to do more!' which we really like, so nobody tell him [how good he's doing]," Brevoort said.
The story of the 12-part series focuses on the fate of the hammers brought to earth by the villain The Serpent. "These still have an incredible amount of destructive potential," Brevoort said, noting that many characters – each with their own purposes both nefarious and true – go out in search of the weapons. "In the course of this journey, this brings [the searchers] into contact and conflict with characters all over the Marvel Universe...the sense of this is that it spans the entirety of the Marvel Universe. You're going to see characters from every corner."

Valkyrie & Sin are the stars, this is what Marvel is promoting as having these two ladies as more prominent Marvel characters:

The Editor revealed that the two biggest leads would be Valkyrie and Sin (teamed again with Crossbones) while Arbona said Namor, the X-Men and the Thing would all appear along the line.
"It's kind of become an epic travelogue," Fraction said, noting that the series was an opportunity to elevate Sin and Valkyrie as two of the Marvel U's premier female characters.


Brevoort called it a happy accident, saying that the story just came along at a time when fans are very vocal about the need for more female representation in superhero comics. He also noted that if the books had not had to be split, the three characters on the "Fearless" teasers would have been Sin, Valkyrie and Marcus – the character who has gone to "Battle Scars" for what Yost joked was "all-masculine action."


The core of the two characters were discussed some as Brevoort said, "Valkyrie was always a character that we liked, and a lot of this actually springboards out of the 'Secret Avengers' issue Nick Spencer wrote during 'Fear Itself' delving into her background." He added that the character had the right resume as someone from an Asgardian background. "She's also a character as opposed to a Wolverine or a Spider-Man who's not integrally invested in so many other places that it's not harder to put her at the center of a book like this." Relationships for Valkyrie to have between other Marvel characters were found in the writing that will connect "odd and disparate elements of Marvel continuity past that will make a subset of the audience chuckle in wonder" as the character will be made more integral to some past event stories.

Bagley on Valkyrie and Pelletier on Sin & Crossbones:

Bagley will draw the majority of the Valkyrie pages while Pelletier will focus on the Sin and Crossbones sequences with the former bringing many heroic images to life while the latter gets a more dark tone. "The two story tracks reach this collision point where the two will be collaborating as artists," Bunn said. "Their two styles play very well with each other. It works very well."

Bunn talks about his writing on the story:

The panel compared the hammers in "The Fearless" to loose nukes where even Valkyrie's chasing after the objects that turned heroes into villains will lead to her allies standing against her.
Bunn ended the proceedings speaking to how he's bringing his own sensibilities to the massive story even while he works with everyone else on the team. "I'm writing this story as a story i would write, and it's been a natural fit for me. Going into this kind of thing, you always hold your breath in case it's going to be a nightmare...thus far, it hasn't been a nightmare." Fraction added, "Just wait...by the end I'm going to pull some real diva ****" before talking up "The Sixth Gun" as a series fans more familiar with the Marvel side of comics should look for.

Some teaser art from the Link:

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[Nightwing Z]

Cool! Currently loving Fear Itself. The last event I read about Marvel is Civil War.

 

[runawayboulder]

My feelings on Fear Itself can be best summed up in this video

http://youtu.be/YdDMrncAy4U

 

[TheCorpulent1]

That bit about Valkyrie's involvement being inspired partly by Nick Spencer's (terrible) origin story from Secret Avengers worries me. But Cullen Bunn's awesome, so I'm still interested.

 

[Ipodman]

I really like the angel/demon theme in that Fearless promo pic. I just hope the writers do a good job with Valkyrie. She's been boring in Secret Avengers because Brubaker just uses her as the muscle.

WHAT.

That recent issue of Secret Avengers focusing on Val's past with the Odin is great! t:

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Except that Valkyrie already has an established past and it's nothing like that issue. So it was an origin issue that got her origin wrong.

 

[Drz]

Check how Matt Franction wrote Captain America now. Bleeding Cool shared some spoilers via scans.

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[Panthro]

Check how Matt Franction wrote Captain America now. Bleeding Cool shared some spoilers via scans.

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Tries so hard to be awesome that it actually fails to be awesome. Nice artwork though.

 

[hippie_hunter]

This issue sucked

 

[runawayboulder]

The whole event sucked. I had no intentions of picking up #6 but it looks downright laughable about how bad it is.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Yeah, Cap came off as a jackass in the issue. "Ooh, I've given up even though one guy on our side rocked the asses off two of the other side's most powerful. Let me take all of my angsty frustrations out on everyone else, then pick up these totally f***ing useless guns to fight god-level powerhouses." This is the world's greatest soldier and most inspirational leader?

 

[Panthro]

Yeah, Cap came off as a jackass in the issue. "Ooh, I've given up even though one guy on our side rocked the asses off two of the other side's most powerful. Let me take all of my angsty frustrations out on everyone else, then pick up these totally f***ing useless guns to fight god-level powerhouses." This is the world's greatest soldier and most inspirational leader?

Who needs the comics when we can just watch "Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes"?

 

[Drz]

Not even Ultimate Captain America would get this low in his career. t: