Marvel Comics May 4th 2011 Part 2
Fear Itself Book Two
There is always a danger of this book becoming too formulaic, with the 8 hammers landing, and finding who gets which,but a large number of them were claimed this issue so I am glad that isn't the root that was taken. There was also the danger that too much action would take place in tie-in books but it seems that most of the stories start in this and you can follow them elsewhere if you wish. Like Titania going to fin the Absorbing Man's hammer with him. Looks like that isn't worthy (pun not intended) of making the main story as it's advertised as being in the Ironman book.
The tension and fear is actual being portrayed rather well through a large amount of scattered news reports and coverage throughout the book, and from the speed of everything, the cut scenes are literally every other panel or page. A lot is fitted into this, lots to get your head around and anticipate or guess as to what could be coming next. Surely the Yancy street hammer must be for the Thing? Where is the Absorbing Man's hammer? Who else is going to be getting one? Is that why Odin wants Thor away from Earth? Is he likely to be targeted? Decent stuff all round.
Fear Itself: The Home Front #2
I find the idea of Miriam Sharpe being intelligent enough to stop and help Speedball really quite an good step forward for her. I also find the anger of the citizens of Stamford truly haunting. Rain Beredo's art is beautiful for such a dark subject it ads to the creepiness of it. Also turns out Speedball's semi-invulnerability doesn't work against being suffocated by a plastic bag.
The Agents of Atlas find the room in the castle where the cursed book was made from the skin of tortured Atlanteans. If they can use the pages that didn't make the final cut then this could be quite a major point for the Fear Itself story. I hope what they find makes it into Cap's hands in the main book. I want every little story I read to be for a reason when it comes to tie-ins.
Unlike the Purple man one pager which really is pointless. It's just him swimming to shore from the raft saying he wants to be known by his birth name from now on. Then a short about Liz Allen and her son Normie getting stuck between train stations on a train that's got people clambering all over it to get on board. People are wounded and it's from all the escaped convicts from the raft running riot in the city. It's this kind of story that has a sense of panic a realism that helps fuel the fear of the main book. I'm actually pretty glad I'm picking up this tie-in book.
Uncanny X-Force #9
Such an odd issue. A stand alone story that felt like it should have been the point one hop on point. The pacing is all off and is shown almost cinematically using a bizarre wide panel format all the way through, and far too much time depicting trivial moments unessential to the story. In the same way thumb nails would be used to plan what angle the camera should shoot from while shooting a movie. I have trouble with the art this issue also, there is a bizarre white highlight scribbled over much of the main art throughout and it really distracts from the story. The story could have been forced into half the pages here and still have the same impact.
It's all about Magneto breaking into X-force...
... and getting X-Force to kill some Nazi guy from during the war. Wolverine goes and does it alone to keep everyone else's hands a bit cleaner, I guess. Just not the X-Force I've grown accustomed to since the series started.
There is always a danger of this book becoming too formulaic, with the 8 hammers landing, and finding who gets which,but a large number of them were claimed this issue so I am glad that isn't the root that was taken. There was also the danger that too much action would take place in tie-in books but it seems that most of the stories start in this and you can follow them elsewhere if you wish. Like Titania going to fin the Absorbing Man's hammer with him. Looks like that isn't worthy (pun not intended) of making the main story as it's advertised as being in the Ironman book.
The tension and fear is actual being portrayed rather well through a large amount of scattered news reports and coverage throughout the book, and from the speed of everything, the cut scenes are literally every other panel or page. A lot is fitted into this, lots to get your head around and anticipate or guess as to what could be coming next. Surely the Yancy street hammer must be for the Thing? Where is the Absorbing Man's hammer? Who else is going to be getting one? Is that why Odin wants Thor away from Earth? Is he likely to be targeted? Decent stuff all round.
Fear Itself: The Home Front #2
I find the idea of Miriam Sharpe being intelligent enough to stop and help Speedball really quite an good step forward for her. I also find the anger of the citizens of Stamford truly haunting. Rain Beredo's art is beautiful for such a dark subject it ads to the creepiness of it. Also turns out Speedball's semi-invulnerability doesn't work against being suffocated by a plastic bag.
The Agents of Atlas find the room in the castle where the cursed book was made from the skin of tortured Atlanteans. If they can use the pages that didn't make the final cut then this could be quite a major point for the Fear Itself story. I hope what they find makes it into Cap's hands in the main book. I want every little story I read to be for a reason when it comes to tie-ins.
Unlike the Purple man one pager which really is pointless. It's just him swimming to shore from the raft saying he wants to be known by his birth name from now on. Then a short about Liz Allen and her son Normie getting stuck between train stations on a train that's got people clambering all over it to get on board. People are wounded and it's from all the escaped convicts from the raft running riot in the city. It's this kind of story that has a sense of panic a realism that helps fuel the fear of the main book. I'm actually pretty glad I'm picking up this tie-in book.
Uncanny X-Force #9
Such an odd issue. A stand alone story that felt like it should have been the point one hop on point. The pacing is all off and is shown almost cinematically using a bizarre wide panel format all the way through, and far too much time depicting trivial moments unessential to the story. In the same way thumb nails would be used to plan what angle the camera should shoot from while shooting a movie. I have trouble with the art this issue also, there is a bizarre white highlight scribbled over much of the main art throughout and it really distracts from the story. The story could have been forced into half the pages here and still have the same impact.
It's all about Magneto breaking into X-force...
Deathlok is made of metal and Magneto controls metal. It was a one sided fight.
... and getting X-Force to kill some Nazi guy from during the war. Wolverine goes and does it alone to keep everyone else's hands a bit cleaner, I guess. Just not the X-Force I've grown accustomed to since the series started.
Marvel Comics May 4th 2011 Part 2
Reviewed by Matt
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07:29:00
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Reviewed by Matt
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