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Fear Itself (Single Issues) #4-7, 7.1
Fear Itself, Part Two
Una sombra de miedo ha sido lanzada a través de la Tierra y la única esperanza de los Avengers es una alianza con las fuerzas de Asgard. Pero con el reino de Asgard abandonado y sin Odín, se necesitará de un enorme sacrificio para que el Padre de Todo decida regresar. ¿Están nuestros héroes dispuestos a pagar el precio final o el mundo se quemará en los fuegos del miedo?
Recopila Fear Itself #4-7 y Fear Itself: Captain America.
Recopila Fear Itself #4-7 y Fear Itself: Captain America.
162 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 2010
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About the author
Matt Fraction
1,218 books1,854 followers"How he got started in comics: In 1983, when Fraction was 7 years old and growing up in Kansas City, Mo., he became fascinated by the U.S. invasion of Grenada and created his own newspaper to explain the event. "I've always been story-driven, telling stories with pictures and words," he said.
Education and first job: Fraction never graduated from college. He stopped half a semester short of an art degree at Kansas City Art Institute in Missouri in 1998 to take a job as a Web designer and managing editor of a magazine about Internet culture.
"My mother was not happy about that," he said.
But that gig led Fraction and his co-workers to split off and launch MK12, a boutique graphic design and production firm in Kansas City that created the opening credits for the James Bond film "Quantum of Solace."
Big break: While writing and directing live-action shoots at MK12, Fraction spent his spare time writing comics and pitching his books each year to publishers at Comic-Con. Two books sold: "The Last of the Independents," published in 2003 by AiT/Planet Lar, and "Casanova," published in 2006 by Image Comics.
Fraction traveled extensively on commercial shoots. Then his wife got pregnant. So Fraction did what any rational man in his position would do -- he quit his job at MK12 to pursue his dream of becoming a full-time comic book writer.
Say what? "It was terrifying," said Fraction, who now lives in Portland, Ore. "I was married. We had a house. We had a baby coming. And I just quit my job."
Marvel hired Fraction in June 2006, thanks largely to the success of his other two comics. "I got very lucky," he half-joked. "If it hadn't worked out, I would have had to move back in with my parents.
- 2009. Alex Pham. Los Angeles Times.
Education and first job: Fraction never graduated from college. He stopped half a semester short of an art degree at Kansas City Art Institute in Missouri in 1998 to take a job as a Web designer and managing editor of a magazine about Internet culture.
"My mother was not happy about that," he said.
But that gig led Fraction and his co-workers to split off and launch MK12, a boutique graphic design and production firm in Kansas City that created the opening credits for the James Bond film "Quantum of Solace."
Big break: While writing and directing live-action shoots at MK12, Fraction spent his spare time writing comics and pitching his books each year to publishers at Comic-Con. Two books sold: "The Last of the Independents," published in 2003 by AiT/Planet Lar, and "Casanova," published in 2006 by Image Comics.
Fraction traveled extensively on commercial shoots. Then his wife got pregnant. So Fraction did what any rational man in his position would do -- he quit his job at MK12 to pursue his dream of becoming a full-time comic book writer.
Say what? "It was terrifying," said Fraction, who now lives in Portland, Ore. "I was married. We had a house. We had a baby coming. And I just quit my job."
Marvel hired Fraction in June 2006, thanks largely to the success of his other two comics. "I got very lucky," he half-joked. "If it hadn't worked out, I would have had to move back in with my parents.
- 2009. Alex Pham. Los Angeles Times.
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July 8, 2019
Esta es una historia para leer, saber de que se trata y ya. Supongo que tendría más sustancia y sentido si leyera los (probablemente decenas) de tie-ins, porque la mayor parte de la acción y del desarrollo de los personajes parece ocurrir fuera de la miniserie, en donde vemos un montón de personajes secundarios que muchas veces ni siquiera son nombrados y parecen estar ahí para hacer bulto nomás.
Los "Dignos" apenas si aparecen y hacen algo, y algunos como Grey Gargoyle aparecen solo de lejos, si no fuera por la historia de "Los Dignos" del volumen anterior ni siquiera sabría que era parte dele ejército de la Serpiente.
Iron-Man crea unas armas re chetas que hacen que todos se conviertan en una especie de "Dignos" pero del lado de los buenos y las armas se usan un par de páginas y nada más. No cambian nada, no sirven para nada más que distraer por unos minutos y para hacer una splash-page de los héroes transformados.
En fin, en general es un crossover más, en donde se nota (como dicen varias veces en los anexos) que iba a ser una historia centrada en Thor y el Capitán América que fue ampliada para que incluyera el resto del universo Marvel. Quizá hubiera funcionado mejor como una historia más acotada.
Los "Dignos" apenas si aparecen y hacen algo, y algunos como Grey Gargoyle aparecen solo de lejos, si no fuera por la historia de "Los Dignos" del volumen anterior ni siquiera sabría que era parte dele ejército de la Serpiente.
Iron-Man crea unas armas re chetas que hacen que todos se conviertan en una especie de "Dignos" pero del lado de los buenos y las armas se usan un par de páginas y nada más. No cambian nada, no sirven para nada más que distraer por unos minutos y para hacer una splash-page de los héroes transformados.
En fin, en general es un crossover más, en donde se nota (como dicen varias veces en los anexos) que iba a ser una historia centrada en Thor y el Capitán América que fue ampliada para que incluyera el resto del universo Marvel. Quizá hubiera funcionado mejor como una historia más acotada.
July 9, 2022
Aunque no me ha gustado del todo por mil motivos, no puedo tirarle tanto hate como para decir que es una historia basura y demás. ¿Me gustó? No. ¿La idea era buena? Relativamente.
El problema, como he visto que otro ha comentado, es que la historia central del cómic queda muy diluida. Seguramente, como ocurre en Secret Empire o Avengers vs X-Men, la historia mejore con los Tie-Ins que desarrollen todo lo que aquí apenas es mencionado; sin embargo la historia debería sostenerse por si misma tal como otros eventos (como los de Bendis por ejemplo).
En este caso creo que A Fraction le dieron un encargo y él cumplió como cualquier otro trabajador, pero sin hacer la historia suya y sin desarrollar ningún aspecto del mismo. La trama se siente apresurada, muchos de los personajes apenas los vemos (Los Dignos por ejemplo quedan completamente diluidos), hay subramas que pueden resultar interesantes (como la confrontación entre Stark y Odín) que quedan comprimidos hasta que carecen de sentido, etc.
Sin embargo, en medio de todo esto, hay que reconocer un buen trabajo de arte. El cómic se sostiene gracias a su aspecto gráfico que logra hacer que el todo sea un poco más sobrellevable. No quiero tirarle demasiadas flores a Immonen dado que creo que hay una amalgama de artistas que han participado aquí, pero aún así creo que es de los aspectos más destacables de este tomo.
El problema, como he visto que otro ha comentado, es que la historia central del cómic queda muy diluida. Seguramente, como ocurre en Secret Empire o Avengers vs X-Men, la historia mejore con los Tie-Ins que desarrollen todo lo que aquí apenas es mencionado; sin embargo la historia debería sostenerse por si misma tal como otros eventos (como los de Bendis por ejemplo).
En este caso creo que A Fraction le dieron un encargo y él cumplió como cualquier otro trabajador, pero sin hacer la historia suya y sin desarrollar ningún aspecto del mismo. La trama se siente apresurada, muchos de los personajes apenas los vemos (Los Dignos por ejemplo quedan completamente diluidos), hay subramas que pueden resultar interesantes (como la confrontación entre Stark y Odín) que quedan comprimidos hasta que carecen de sentido, etc.
Sin embargo, en medio de todo esto, hay que reconocer un buen trabajo de arte. El cómic se sostiene gracias a su aspecto gráfico que logra hacer que el todo sea un poco más sobrellevable. No quiero tirarle demasiadas flores a Immonen dado que creo que hay una amalgama de artistas que han participado aquí, pero aún así creo que es de los aspectos más destacables de este tomo.
December 20, 2021
Malo malísimo, lo peor que haya escrito Fraction y el peor evento que haya leído de Marvel.
March 10, 2023
Roteiro: Matt Fraction e Ed Brubaker
Arte: Stuart Immonen, Scott Eaton, Adam Kubert e Salvador Larroca
• A Essência do Medo 4-7 e 7.1-7.3
Nota: 6,5/10
Arte: Stuart Immonen, Scott Eaton, Adam Kubert e Salvador Larroca
• A Essência do Medo 4-7 e 7.1-7.3
Nota: 6,5/10
April 11, 2016
Being one of Marvel’s summer blockbuster events you know it’s going to end in a big scrap between superpowered entities (in this case, between gods and some powered-up-like-a-Pacman-with-a-pill heroes). It’s the way comics narratives work, magical wrestlers performing the same moves in different combinations for our entertainment.
What saves this from the usual empty spectacle is Fraction having the guts to follow through on the philosophical premise underlying the series. Sure, the plot itself is concluded by one god kicking the crap out of another, but the true message underlying it is elsewhere. If you’re faced by relentless fear, endless slaughter, inevitable death and destruction, a world out to get you, how do you deal with it? By standing together with the other members of the human race, no matter your capabilities. It’s perhaps a touch on the trite side, but it’s true, inevitable and refreshing from a genre that’s often been almost Randian in its fetishizing of the powerful individual.
It’s a shame the Captain America epilogue is one giant cheat which undermines one of the more poignant moments, because it wastes some inventive Butch Guise art on cheating the reader. I now you have to expect these things in comics, but it might even be the quickest narrative cheat I’ve ever seen.
What saves this from the usual empty spectacle is Fraction having the guts to follow through on the philosophical premise underlying the series. Sure, the plot itself is concluded by one god kicking the crap out of another, but the true message underlying it is elsewhere. If you’re faced by relentless fear, endless slaughter, inevitable death and destruction, a world out to get you, how do you deal with it? By standing together with the other members of the human race, no matter your capabilities. It’s perhaps a touch on the trite side, but it’s true, inevitable and refreshing from a genre that’s often been almost Randian in its fetishizing of the powerful individual.
It’s a shame the Captain America epilogue is one giant cheat which undermines one of the more poignant moments, because it wastes some inventive Butch Guise art on cheating the reader. I now you have to expect these things in comics, but it might even be the quickest narrative cheat I’ve ever seen.
June 12, 2016
This second part was probably better than the first part because it concentrated on the stories of the individual heroes rather than the development of the minor villains as a plausible threat, which didn't really work for me in the first part.
However, having said that, there was a whole Iron Man thread which started out well and then petered into nothingness, not having much to do with the end of the story apart from having the 'minor' avengers act as a 'we were here too' cavalry with 'special' weapons that he provided.
The ending of this story is all to do with Captain America and Thor. Thor I can understand because the story is based on one of the norse myths involving that god. However, while the Captain America sub-plot is strong, in my opinion, it is made a complete sham by a single reveal in one of the epilogues.
Not that what Cap did was wrong, but his reason for doing it was apparently unnecessary. I won't go into any more detail to prevent spoilers, but the reveal weakened this part of the story for me and I would have preferred to have the ending of the story focussed on the sacrifice that Thor made to achieve the ultimate victory.
However, having said that, there was a whole Iron Man thread which started out well and then petered into nothingness, not having much to do with the end of the story apart from having the 'minor' avengers act as a 'we were here too' cavalry with 'special' weapons that he provided.
The ending of this story is all to do with Captain America and Thor. Thor I can understand because the story is based on one of the norse myths involving that god. However, while the Captain America sub-plot is strong, in my opinion, it is made a complete sham by a single reveal in one of the epilogues.
Not that what Cap did was wrong, but his reason for doing it was apparently unnecessary. I won't go into any more detail to prevent spoilers, but the reveal weakened this part of the story for me and I would have preferred to have the ending of the story focussed on the sacrifice that Thor made to achieve the ultimate victory.
March 5, 2016
Epic! Simple as a story that revolves mostly around Thor and Steve Rogers (Captain America) part 2 just starts dark and builds on that.
One of those stories where it really does feel like it is not going to come out all roses for our heroes and in many ways it doesn't they take a beating.
I wish in some ways there was more on Ben Grimm as he was one of those seduced by a fallen weapon and possessed by one of the Serpent's army. Feeding off of all the pain and hurt that The Thing has gone through and kept plugged up. Maybe in one of the Fear Itself tie ins there hopefully is some more on him.
However there is some truly stand out moments mostly Tony Stark belittling Odin and then a very angry and at wits end Steve Rogers chewing out Odin in a big way.
Grandiose battles that even include everyday folk standing beside the Avengers this is a huge story that needs to be read.
One of those stories where it really does feel like it is not going to come out all roses for our heroes and in many ways it doesn't they take a beating.
I wish in some ways there was more on Ben Grimm as he was one of those seduced by a fallen weapon and possessed by one of the Serpent's army. Feeding off of all the pain and hurt that The Thing has gone through and kept plugged up. Maybe in one of the Fear Itself tie ins there hopefully is some more on him.
However there is some truly stand out moments mostly Tony Stark belittling Odin and then a very angry and at wits end Steve Rogers chewing out Odin in a big way.
Grandiose battles that even include everyday folk standing beside the Avengers this is a huge story that needs to be read.
December 1, 2015
After the epic conclusion of the last volume you knew this volume would really have a lot to live up to. Fraction doesn't disappoint building a true epic Marvel event. Steve Rogers back as Captain America making his last stand in Broxton. Tony making two massive sacrifices to Odin. The artwork is absolutely fantastic. The extra story helps set the scene for what I think was the start of the winter soldier run. I love Spiderman and the relationship he has with aunt May, after Peter has a momentary loss of faith that moment with aunt May is very poignant.
June 9, 2025
Segundo tomo de este flojísimo evento de Marvel que no sé por qué se incluyó en la CDdNGM.
March 7, 2024
Malo con ganas no, malo por falta de ganas.
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February 11, 2018Futuro tomo dos de dos.
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