Too Many Things Going On
Fraction pitches a lot of concepts and stories simultaneously in this first issue, making that the strong and weakest feats of it at the same time - strong because it shows our heroes Thor, Sif and Loki (?) in a quest of the most importance, obeying orders from Odin, something previous to Fear Itself # 1, and it allows Oliver Coipel to deliver the awesome art that is his style: action and movement, though I definitely enjoy his square faces and his own style - in the other hand, the multiple facets of this first issue are the weakest link too, because it makes the dialogues too fragmented, like broken, mixing concepts and ideas that (while connected by fear) aren´t interesting enough to make me completely happy, talking about all the religion and the Silver Surfer/Galactus thing (will they play a part in Fear Itself? It would be nice) - Honestly the thing that bothered me the most is the fact that there´s a possibility that this new concept brought by Fraction (involving Yggdrasil) won´t even resonate in Fear Itself, mostly because Odin haven´t said a word about it in issue # 1 - the best things about this first issue were Coipel´s art, all the colors and some dialogues between Loki and the Ironsmith and Thor with Sif - this issue felt a little loose to me, like without purpose, I really didn´t connected with anything that´s actually going on in Thor´s ongoing series, since the Yggdrasil matter only appeared now and it´s weird seeing how Thor ended up in this issue and how his relationship with Odin are totally different in the saga Fear Itself, so I expected a little more from the guy behind the script of the saga.
4 out 5 (because of Oliver Coipel)
