I don't remember much of it. Some people who live in a colony for rich assholes on the moon, steal Tony's weather machine, which pisses off both Tony and Thor, as it's wreaking havoc on Earth. So they both go to the moon and confront the rich assholes. But then the colony blows up, the rich assholes demand Tony and Thor leave, and all the rich assholes are put in a single space shuttle, with Tony saying he'll leave them there for a year or so, until they feel like rejoining society on Earth. I think that's all of it.
I think it came out around the time that Health Care Reform was still a big issue in the news, so it was kind of a metaphor for the rich essentially saying, "Hey poor people, don't bother us, that shit ain't our problem."
I also recall feeling disappointed that there was no big villain, and thinking that it was probably a really boring read for any of the little kids that read it.
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That sounds terrible for a Free Comic Book Day giveaway.
And as a tie-in to Fraction, here is a very good interview with Joe Casey about comics and animation, and how he notices Fraction is kind of copying his Wildcats 3.0 idea and how comics really do recyclce a lot of the same stuff.
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all the Fear talk they're doing sounds so similar to the way Geoff Johns talks about his Green Lantern work. i don't think johns has it come out in his work as well as he thinks it does, but there's a been there, done that vibe already.
-Fraction described it as the Marvel heroes vs the God of Fear, with a promo pic of a character that didn't look like Phobos.
-This is supposed to be a Secret Invasion/Civil War-sized event, spanning the entire Marvel Universe.
-Ed Brubaker and Scott Eaton are doing the Fear Itself Prologue, about Thor, Namor, and the Invaders in WWII, which sets the stage for the event.
-Axel Alonso and Tom Brevoort pull away a red sheet, to expose a giant Fear Itself banner, with nothing on it but text. A smattering of confused claps ensues.
April-October: Fear Itself 1-7, new titles/one-shots launch, Frontline-esque mini-series will launch, and tie-ins occur.
Also, anyone want to take bets on Storm dying? I think she's the last of the All-New, All-Different X-Men to never die, and she's been floundering around for quite a while now.
And in that promo pic, is Captain America wearing legwarmers?
that's Dracula? He looks like shit. Why is Dracula wearing that shit? Why does he have a pony tail?
Awful.
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wow
I am underwhelmed
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TexiKenDammit!That fish really got me!Registered Userregular
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I sure hope the irony wasn't lost on Quesada when talking about fear he said that the economy is tough and then rolls out a Secret Invasion level of an event with $4 issues.
I'll give the first issue a look, because Immonen's my bro, and 45 pages for $4 should hopefully be at least 30 story pages before we get filler. But nothing about this makes me go "that could work," when from the CBR article they are saying the exact same things about never being the same, lasting repercussions, this has been planned for a long time, etc. etc. that we've heard for the last 4 events. Really, in the general event Word Document Marvel uses to make these announcements, freshen it up a bit.
On the plus side, confirmation Fraction is off Uncanny is good.
Brevoort said the teaser image of Captain America should be used to draw conclusions about Bucky's fate.
pffftttttt.....
So Steve turns back into Cap when Bucky goes crazy/dies/rejects America and runs off to Russia.
edit: so Ben isn't the one who dies in FF now, looks like. Probably Johnny then.
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Gotta say it, but these open opens with spread fingers are starting to annoy me. Not that everyone should just be fists all the time, but, I mean, look at Cyclops. What is that shit. Makes him look like he has no idea what's going on, like he was on the way to make a peanut butter sandwich, suddenly realized he's in a crowd of guys looking the other way and, Whoa! Dracula's bad jazz hands, Batman!
Storm gets it too. I understand she's flying, but that shit needs to go. There's better ways to communicate flight.
I don't want to see any more of this 'I helplessly splay my fingers in a dramatic situation because I'm a superhero' stuff.
-Axel Alonso and Tom Brevoort pull away a red sheet, to expose a giant Fear Itself banner, with nothing on it but text. A smattering of confused claps ensues.
They have the 30 minute video up on Marvel's site, and man is their presentation bad. Everyone looks like they just woke up for a college class presentation and just put on clothes that were closest to the bed, hands in their pockets, a sense that the three seem a bit confused doing this person to person (even Quesada, who is usually very strong in face to face PR stuff since he's had more experience in TV, seems a bit out of it). And the TV to the right is sorely underused when it could have had a rotating bunch of concept art. Nothing about the presentation says "take me seriously, we are an actual business." I know it's cool to appear as if from a distance you aren't doing anything, but a nice polo shirt and khakis and not wearing a fedora isn't selling out.
And the scene Munch mentions played out exactly the way he described, the audience is kind of going "...should we clap again?"
Rich Johnston: The reason people think differently is that you were seen to siphon money from big gigs away from Dreamwave to Dream Engine in the months before the bankruptcy. Which means that when Dreamwave went bankrupt there was less to be allocated to your debtors.
Can you offer any evidence that this was not the case?
I don't think I've ever been less pumped about the pitch of a crossover event (and although I've been reading for only a few years now, I've been following event announcements at Marvel and DC since Avengers: Disassembled and Identity Crisis).
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TexiKenDammit!That fish really got me!Registered Userregular
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It really comes across as a big event just for an event's sake. And like Rans mentioned it kind of comes across as touching on Blackest Night, especially with a hidden secret that will rock the world. I'd even say the initial pitch seems a lot like Mr. Dark from Fables.
If Fear is living in the center of the earth and sprung free by the gulf oil spill (see Namor ties into it), and Ben Grimm has to channel the macguffin to save the world, well, send Geoff Johns a thank you card.
Rich Johnston: The reason people think differently is that you were seen to siphon money from big gigs away from Dreamwave to Dream Engine in the months before the bankruptcy. Which means that when Dreamwave went bankrupt there was less to be allocated to your debtors.
Can you offer any evidence that this was not the case?
(No response from Pat to this interjection)
I don't even think it's deliberate (in the way you might imagine a PR person dodging a question) I think he just has a certain plot line written for what happened, and that's what he's telling.
by the end of Fear Itself and the Green Lantern movie (where Parallax and fear also figure in heavily) DC and Marvel will have accomplished the impossible. they'll have killed fear.
they will have literally beaten it to death.
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I think it came out around the time that Health Care Reform was still a big issue in the news, so it was kind of a metaphor for the rich essentially saying, "Hey poor people, don't bother us, that shit ain't our problem."
I also recall feeling disappointed that there was no big villain, and thinking that it was probably a really boring read for any of the little kids that read it.
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And as a tie-in to Fraction, here is a very good interview with Joe Casey about comics and animation, and how he notices Fraction is kind of copying his Wildcats 3.0 idea and how comics really do recyclce a lot of the same stuff.
Simon Furman is still owed $18,000 and Lee apparently kept telling him to keep delivering scripts, that's insane.
http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Pat_Lee
Holy narcissism, Batman.
fucking fantastic read, thanks TexiKen
I do hope he does pay back the Dreamwave creators like he said, but pffffffft
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god of fear / fear entity. whatever.
-This is supposed to be a Secret Invasion/Civil War-sized event, spanning the entire Marvel Universe.
-Ed Brubaker and Scott Eaton are doing the Fear Itself Prologue, about Thor, Namor, and the Invaders in WWII, which sets the stage for the event.
-Axel Alonso and Tom Brevoort pull away a red sheet, to expose a giant Fear Itself banner, with nothing on it but text. A smattering of confused claps ensues.
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At least Immonen is on something other than a Bendis Avengers book
Yes but it's a Fraction book so it's pretty much the same thing.
Also, Quesada's wearing a Mickey Mouse shirt.
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Maybe this ties into the Serpent Crown from Secret Avengers?
April-October: Fear Itself 1-7, new titles/one-shots launch, Frontline-esque mini-series will launch, and tie-ins occur.
Also, anyone want to take bets on Storm dying? I think she's the last of the All-New, All-Different X-Men to never die, and she's been floundering around for quite a while now.
And in that promo pic, is Captain America wearing legwarmers?
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Dracula needs his mustache back.
Awful.
I am underwhelmed
I'll give the first issue a look, because Immonen's my bro, and 45 pages for $4 should hopefully be at least 30 story pages before we get filler. But nothing about this makes me go "that could work," when from the CBR article they are saying the exact same things about never being the same, lasting repercussions, this has been planned for a long time, etc. etc. that we've heard for the last 4 events. Really, in the general event Word Document Marvel uses to make these announcements, freshen it up a bit.
On the plus side, confirmation Fraction is off Uncanny is good.
pffftttttt.....
So Steve turns back into Cap when Bucky goes crazy/dies/rejects America and runs off to Russia.
edit: so Ben isn't the one who dies in FF now, looks like. Probably Johnny then.
Storm gets it too. I understand she's flying, but that shit needs to go. There's better ways to communicate flight.
I don't want to see any more of this 'I helplessly splay my fingers in a dramatic situation because I'm a superhero' stuff.
A Porsche is a burden? Pat, I will carry that burden for you.
They have the 30 minute video up on Marvel's site, and man is their presentation bad. Everyone looks like they just woke up for a college class presentation and just put on clothes that were closest to the bed, hands in their pockets, a sense that the three seem a bit confused doing this person to person (even Quesada, who is usually very strong in face to face PR stuff since he's had more experience in TV, seems a bit out of it). And the TV to the right is sorely underused when it could have had a rotating bunch of concept art. Nothing about the presentation says "take me seriously, we are an actual business." I know it's cool to appear as if from a distance you aren't doing anything, but a nice polo shirt and khakis and not wearing a fedora isn't selling out.
And the scene Munch mentions played out exactly the way he described, the audience is kind of going "...should we clap again?"
it's like you are reading my mind
I don't think I've ever been less pumped about the pitch of a crossover event (and although I've been reading for only a few years now, I've been following event announcements at Marvel and DC since Avengers: Disassembled and Identity Crisis).
If Fear is living in the center of the earth and sprung free by the gulf oil spill (see Namor ties into it), and Ben Grimm has to channel the macguffin to save the world, well, send Geoff Johns a thank you card.
And it will have been a single year of comics before there is another company wide event
And another X-event
It's rather rediculous, we will have had 12 issue of independant Avengers.
That's it
I don't even think it's deliberate (in the way you might imagine a PR person dodging a question) I think he just has a certain plot line written for what happened, and that's what he's telling.
they will have literally beaten it to death.
No it's cool. They said they're aware that people were tired of big events, but it's been a whole year since Civil War so they're good.
Oh this must be what being crazy is like
I miss Kurt Busiek