FEAR ITSELF : BOOK ONE - review

The first chapter of this year's MARVEL EVENT arrived and it's something amazing.Marvel promised us an event even bigger than Civil War was back in 2006-07 which would change the status quo of the mainstream and they make a promising start where all hell break loose.The writer is non other than one of my favorites, Matt Fraction and the penciler , Stuart Immonen.
The issue begins in Broxton, where a riot errupts in the middle of a conference, because the citizens do not want to help Stark rebuild Asgard and make a home for the Gods.Riots were not all scary considering the fact that Sin found an old base which once belonged to Adolf Hitler and was secured by Nazis over the decades and which hold a powerful weapon which could cause unimaginable destruction if it would be released.This weapon is non other than the hammer that fell to the Earth during the second World War.Sin approaches the artifact and before touches reveals to her men that he had a vision which depicted her as the Queen of the World and Captain America dead at her feet, seconds later after taking the weapon she is transformed into Khadi, the Goddess of Fear.
Also another major conflict depicted in this issue is the struggle between Thor and his fatther, the All-Father, Odin.Odin is disappointed in his son because Thor consideres himself as a human and choose to defy the Asgardians to which Odin reponds in a battle and Thor is taken back to their world in chains.The Gods left the heroes and now they are in their own to face Fear itself.

It would be an interesting concept to see heroes and villains team-up against this threat that is older than the whole universe and more dangerous than any of them.And if things didn't get any worse, than the father of Khadi summoned the Worthy which is not revealed what to be, but seven meteortes fell to Earth and clashed into the Pacific Ocean,Brazil,China and Manhattan.
The first issue as I said before was off to a good start.It wasn't slow but neither fast, it was just right.The storytelling was just perfect thanks to Immonen's illustrations.Immonen really get's better and better whith every comic he does.There was no wasted page or panel in this issue, now everything is set to motion and whats next for our heroes is something non of them faced before.
BOOK TWO : Blitzkreig U.S.A. in stores  May 4, 2011.

RAZOR rating : 9 ( out of 10)