Marvel Brings Out Fear Itself

Ah, time for a new event.  I know most people (myself included) thought that we needed a longer break from big crossovers, but events do make things more interesting.  They add a sense of scale to things, promising world ending threats and life changing moments.  I don't think the problem is in the idea of events, instead the main problem has been the execution.  The Sinestro Corps. War is a perfect example of how epic an event can be.  The latest attempt by Marvel is about Fear itself.

Who's involved?  The main villain might be some kind of god of Fear, and the guy might be powerful enough to take on all of our heroes.  And it's a classy bunch of characters.  We have Captain America (new and old), Thor, Iron Man, Cyclops, the Thing, Black Panther and his wife Storm, Hulk, and... Dracula!?!?  That last one is by far my favorite.  Marvel gave our favorite vampire a swanky new look recently, and I'm excited at how he'll fit into this group.  And expect Spidey and Wolverine to show up at some point too.  The event will be written by Matt Fraction with pencils by Stuart Immonen.  Fraction will keep writing Iron Man and Thor, but will toning down his involvement on the X-Men franchise.  So, win-win!

Marvel is selling this as a huge game-changer with a scope comparable to Civil War.  I'm actually inclined to believe them, since there has been set up for close to a year I think.  Both Steve Rogers and Tony Stark have had visions of weird tri-pod things.  I can only guess that these machines have something to do with the event, and I'm certainly looking forward to our heroes tearing them apart.