Review – Fear Itself Book Seven of Seven – Thor's Day

[image error]Fear Itself – Book Seven of Seven

Publisher: Marvel

It has been a long, long journey from Book One of this Summer event to Book Seven, a little too long with too little happening and nothing but a little badly plotted stunt shock along the way. I've talked to a lot of people who've read this event and the general consensus is nice artwork, story played a flat note, which sums up my thoughts too. Which is a shame because the first book of this event actually was very well done, there was a palpable sense of unease in that one. It was just after that the event book turned into a two panel adverts for the Fear Itself tie-in books and you just stopped caring about what happened. There are spoilers after the jump, so you've been warned. 

So now we are here at the end of all things and the final book in what has been at best a very flat event is done, so how do I feel now? To be honest I don't feel any different, just a sense of relief it is over and just to rub salt into the wound Marvel charged $4.99 for the last book in the series. I guess it makes sense because the last five books weren't really worth the $3.99 cover price, so hats off for consistency at least.

Everything is tied up in this book, the Serpent is defeated and just like the rest of event you can't help thinking why didn't they just do that three issues ago? For some reason normal guns in the hand of Captain America have the ability to take down those Battle Mech's (then again Daredevil took down three by himself in the last Avengers book) and sudden the Avengers actually remember how to fight – now that the low-powered hero's have received an Asgard Day Glo upgrade, they kicked the Worthy butts; oh I also forgot to mention that Cap picked up Thor's hammer (I didn't know he could do that and the image of this should of excited me more than it did) and went Hammer Time with Sin.

After six books of build up it has all been a bit of a disappointment to say the least, there is nothing here that couldn't of been done in four books, the end battle was anti-climatic and then we are treated to four epilogues that are just glorified adverts for the spin-off titles, none of which excite me at all. How many spin-off titles can you name that lasted past their sixth issue?

And Cap shield is now fixed with an Asgard enchantment of unbreaking… That was easy, eh?

I am sorry I have to say this because collectively the event was a superhero yarn that would be fun to read in the 90′s, like in an image book were story was second place to the art. But after a series of good summer events from Marvel  over the last four years this one was just not up to par. Now I know most events are there to get you buy other books, but this one was too blatant with it, with the main book not actually telling any part of the story itself, and instead acted like an advert for tie-ins. I don't know what happened here, I know it isn't just me feeling this and if this is the shape of events to come from the Marvel Architects, then events will become something I will just pass up. So at least my wallet will thank me.

Two Thumbs up out of Five