Written by MATT FRACTION Pencils by STUART IMMONEN Cover by STEVE McNIVEN
Tony Stark returns from the depths with a last-chance arsenal that will transform the Avengers from Earth's Mightiest Heroes...into Earth's Last Hope! It's THOR'S DAY-- the day that everything ends! • Double sized Finale with a little something extra for keen eye 56 PGS.
Date Available: 10/19/2011
BONUS REVIEW by RICK BERG
The only thing we have to fear is more issues? I wish I could turn my
retailer brain off and then I would love this issue. If so I would tell
you tales of how I loved Stuart Immonen’s artwork and the badass things
he depicted. I can’t think of 52 things last month that even came close
to some of the stuff we see Captain America and Thor do. One of the most
important things though, occurs almost off panel. I barely noticed it until
the next page told me it had happened, what a missed opportunity. I could
talk about how I loved Fraction’s subtle hints about the human spirit
finally raising in the middle of this most frightful battle between gods
and monsters. Yet my brain still keeps on groaning for some reason. If it
was not, I could regal you with how things in this issue brought me back
to my youth reading Simonson’s Thor, and Mike Zeck’s Captain America.
My main disappointment deals with the majorly annoying addition of 10
endings that seem mostly tossed on. Especially maddening is that we are
basically told that I need to read 3 more books to get the full ending of
this tale. At 60 pages long and with the last 20 or so all being little
promos for upcoming books, 2 of which directly seem to conflict with each
other’s storylines, I lost most of my enjoyment the first 40 created.
Sure I get that Marvel wants me to keep reading their books but how many
spinoffs do they expect me to read because they only slightly tie in with
Fear Itself. I totally want 20 more pages of Immonen’s epic battle
between Thor and the Serpent then reading about a supposed major new
character that was not even in the previous 7 issues. Much like most event
books I got what amounted to a 90s pinup book, tons of cool ideas for
striking visuals (Cap armed with shotguns) barely tied together by a jump
the shark plot (Thor has a mysterious never before heard of uncle) that
needs to fill up a trade paperback worth of pages.
