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Fear Itself #10
Wolverine/New MutantsWOLVERINE/NEW MUTANTS by Peck, Seth (Author) on May-09-2012 Hardcover
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August 6, 2018
There are two stories collected here, both with ties to the Fear Itself crossover event but neither being essential to it.
First up is a three-part Wolverine tale which has Logan trying to prevent a group of rogue British secret agents dropping a nuke on New York City. It's... OK. The story is fairly by-the-numbers and it's backed up by art that's a little sloppy around the edges but that does have its moments. I give this part of the book 3 stars.
The remainder of the book is made up of a four-part New Mutants story which has Dani Moonstar being sent to Las Vegas by Cyclops to see if she can use her 'in' with Hela to sort out this whole 'Fear Itself' mess (none of this will mean anything to you if you're not pretty familiar with the Marvel universe, I'm afraid). Needless to say, things go a bit pear-shaped and the rest of Dani's team end up having to go in after her to pull her fat out of the fire. I really enjoyed this story (being a HUGE New Mutants fanboy) and would have probably given it five stars if it weren't for the fact that large chunks of the tale were drawn by a fill-in artist whose style jarred with that of the regular guy. As it is, four stars.
First up is a three-part Wolverine tale which has Logan trying to prevent a group of rogue British secret agents dropping a nuke on New York City. It's... OK. The story is fairly by-the-numbers and it's backed up by art that's a little sloppy around the edges but that does have its moments. I give this part of the book 3 stars.
The remainder of the book is made up of a four-part New Mutants story which has Dani Moonstar being sent to Las Vegas by Cyclops to see if she can use her 'in' with Hela to sort out this whole 'Fear Itself' mess (none of this will mean anything to you if you're not pretty familiar with the Marvel universe, I'm afraid). Needless to say, things go a bit pear-shaped and the rest of Dani's team end up having to go in after her to pull her fat out of the fire. I really enjoyed this story (being a HUGE New Mutants fanboy) and would have probably given it five stars if it weren't for the fact that large chunks of the tale were drawn by a fill-in artist whose style jarred with that of the regular guy. As it is, four stars.
December 10, 2020
Fear Itself: Wolverine/New Mutants. Two more tie in stories to said event that vary in quality. Apart from focusing on mutants these two stories have little in common.
The Wolverine part is an average pop corn munching affair. Not bad, but doesn’t blow your mind either. It doesn’t help where the art for this part isn’t great either. The plot revolves around a terrorist organisation getting hold of one of Norman Osborn’s helicarrier’s left over from the Siege event and flying it straight for New York City. The only Avenger available to stop it: Wolverine. The only tie to Fear Itself comes down to it taking place during Fear Itself. So it doesn’t really expand on the event.
New Mutants fare slightly better. It is tied to the Uncanny X-Men tie in at first but turns into its own realm hopping adventure. We venture to Hell and... Hel. This ties in more with the central Fear Itself storyline. We get some decent mystical action. The art style is better compared to the Wolverine story.
How much you get out of this, depends on how much you care about the characters involved. Wolverine was one of my early favourite Marvel characters, but this is a disappointing story for the character. I don’t know the New Mutants that well, but this has got me intrigued by their characters.
Not an essential read, for fans of the event or characters only.
The Wolverine part is an average pop corn munching affair. Not bad, but doesn’t blow your mind either. It doesn’t help where the art for this part isn’t great either. The plot revolves around a terrorist organisation getting hold of one of Norman Osborn’s helicarrier’s left over from the Siege event and flying it straight for New York City. The only Avenger available to stop it: Wolverine. The only tie to Fear Itself comes down to it taking place during Fear Itself. So it doesn’t really expand on the event.
New Mutants fare slightly better. It is tied to the Uncanny X-Men tie in at first but turns into its own realm hopping adventure. We venture to Hell and... Hel. This ties in more with the central Fear Itself storyline. We get some decent mystical action. The art style is better compared to the Wolverine story.
How much you get out of this, depends on how much you care about the characters involved. Wolverine was one of my early favourite Marvel characters, but this is a disappointing story for the character. I don’t know the New Mutants that well, but this has got me intrigued by their characters.
Not an essential read, for fans of the event or characters only.
January 4, 2014
Collecting the mini series Fear Itself: Wolverine #1–3 and New Mutants #29–32, this is a somewhat odd little collection. The two stories have absolutely nothing in common, other than tangentially being part of the Marvel event Fear Itself. It also makes the grading as a whole somewhat uneven.
The Wolverine mini, written by Seth Peck and illustrated by Roland Boschi, with Robbi Rodriguez and John Lucas, is a painfully bad comic that I would not think twice about giving a single star and speedily getting rid of from my shelves. In fact, reading these three issues turned out to be a struggle. Between unappealing, and at times quite appalling, art with many non-anatomic poses that are painful to watch, and a story that fills me with a desire to bang my head in the wall whilst repeatedly asking what the heck happened to the character of Wolverine, or why his name is on the cover, I cannot think of a single nice thing to say about it. Simply put: avoid this story like plague. There are so many other better things out there to read.
Which leads us to the four issues of New Mutants that follow directly after Unfinished Business , i.e. the first volume of Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning's run on the title. Here David Lafuente, with a little assist by Rodriguez on issue #32, does the lion's share of the art work, and while not necessarily my favourite style, certainly does the job.
Dani Moonstar's team of mutants, consisting of Sunspot, Magma, Cypher and Warlock, with Nate Grey (a.k.a. X-Man) assisting in an as of yet unofficial capacity, investigates the death of the Norse goddess Hel, and pays an unintended visit to Hell, and Marvel devil extraordinary, Mephisto, in the process. The result is a fun yarn that I enjoyed quite a bit.
My main complaint with the volume as a whole is that, apart from consisting of one lousy and one enjoyable part, there is no real sense of coherence between the parts. There is nothing in the events relating to Fear Itself in the Wolverine mini that in any real way ties in with what goes on in the New Mutants issues. If we add to this my complaint when reviewing Unfinished Business about the fact that that title offered a rather slim four-issue collection, I cannot help but think that an eight-issue volume containing New Mutants #25–32 instead would have been a much more satisfying treat.
Still, I will allow for the New Mutants issues to save the day, and bring the complete grade up to three stars all on their own. But those issues certainly deserved much better company than Marvel opted to provide them with.
The Wolverine mini, written by Seth Peck and illustrated by Roland Boschi, with Robbi Rodriguez and John Lucas, is a painfully bad comic that I would not think twice about giving a single star and speedily getting rid of from my shelves. In fact, reading these three issues turned out to be a struggle. Between unappealing, and at times quite appalling, art with many non-anatomic poses that are painful to watch, and a story that fills me with a desire to bang my head in the wall whilst repeatedly asking what the heck happened to the character of Wolverine, or why his name is on the cover, I cannot think of a single nice thing to say about it. Simply put: avoid this story like plague. There are so many other better things out there to read.
Which leads us to the four issues of New Mutants that follow directly after Unfinished Business , i.e. the first volume of Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning's run on the title. Here David Lafuente, with a little assist by Rodriguez on issue #32, does the lion's share of the art work, and while not necessarily my favourite style, certainly does the job.
Dani Moonstar's team of mutants, consisting of Sunspot, Magma, Cypher and Warlock, with Nate Grey (a.k.a. X-Man) assisting in an as of yet unofficial capacity, investigates the death of the Norse goddess Hel, and pays an unintended visit to Hell, and Marvel devil extraordinary, Mephisto, in the process. The result is a fun yarn that I enjoyed quite a bit.
My main complaint with the volume as a whole is that, apart from consisting of one lousy and one enjoyable part, there is no real sense of coherence between the parts. There is nothing in the events relating to Fear Itself in the Wolverine mini that in any real way ties in with what goes on in the New Mutants issues. If we add to this my complaint when reviewing Unfinished Business about the fact that that title offered a rather slim four-issue collection, I cannot help but think that an eight-issue volume containing New Mutants #25–32 instead would have been a much more satisfying treat.
Still, I will allow for the New Mutants issues to save the day, and bring the complete grade up to three stars all on their own. But those issues certainly deserved much better company than Marvel opted to provide them with.
May 6, 2012
I only really purchased this collection for the New Mutants issues, since they weren't being collected anywhere else. That said, the Wolverine story wasn't bad. It wasn't anything I'd particularly have gone and bought otherwise, but since I had it here, I read it anyway and it was better than I'd expected.
The New Mutants issues, like Abnett and Lanning's earlier arc, suffers from poor art. David LaFuente is a superb artist, yet all of his pages here seem rushed and sketchy, like he was forced to meet a deadline on each issue and it wasn't what he could realistically achieve. Look at his work on Ultimate Spider-Man and you'll see what I mean - over there it is polished and enjoyable. The storyline is decent enough, if a little dragged out, and the humour is injected into a serious situation very well. I'm glad I read this before the current Exiled crossover, since I'm sure it will be important later on.
The New Mutants issues, like Abnett and Lanning's earlier arc, suffers from poor art. David LaFuente is a superb artist, yet all of his pages here seem rushed and sketchy, like he was forced to meet a deadline on each issue and it wasn't what he could realistically achieve. Look at his work on Ultimate Spider-Man and you'll see what I mean - over there it is polished and enjoyable. The storyline is decent enough, if a little dragged out, and the humour is injected into a serious situation very well. I'm glad I read this before the current Exiled crossover, since I'm sure it will be important later on.
October 4, 2018
Read the Wolverine issues.
Not the New Mutants yet.
Not the New Mutants yet.
September 6, 2019
I've not read Fear Itself but from what little bit I know about the event, I would be skeptical that X-Men are a good fit for something so Asgardian and this book doesn't exactly disprove that notion. I read this because I've been following New Mutants but honestly, it could have just been about Dani's experience in Hel and it would have fit into Fear Itself better.
The biggest problem is that New Mutants has been completely inundated with events and crossovers like this to where there aren't enough just regular stories and this one mostly shows why. It isn't very mutant focused, nor does much interesting happen within it. It isn't bad, it is just okay. Wolverine is about the same quality. While it is nice to see Wolverine's relationship with his girlfriend come into play and there is some good Wolverine action, the plot feels kind of disposable and barely related to Fear Itself. I do think the art is interesting to look at and both artists in this volume have a really distinct style. I didn't love every panel but I still appreciated the uniqueness of it all. It looks like the next volume is the last for New Mutants in this iteration so hopefully that delivers a decent story as this was fairly average and forgettable. Its also a great example of how events can hurt a big as much as it does help them.
The biggest problem is that New Mutants has been completely inundated with events and crossovers like this to where there aren't enough just regular stories and this one mostly shows why. It isn't very mutant focused, nor does much interesting happen within it. It isn't bad, it is just okay. Wolverine is about the same quality. While it is nice to see Wolverine's relationship with his girlfriend come into play and there is some good Wolverine action, the plot feels kind of disposable and barely related to Fear Itself. I do think the art is interesting to look at and both artists in this volume have a really distinct style. I didn't love every panel but I still appreciated the uniqueness of it all. It looks like the next volume is the last for New Mutants in this iteration so hopefully that delivers a decent story as this was fairly average and forgettable. Its also a great example of how events can hurt a big as much as it does help them.
July 18, 2021
After a bit of a break, I checked back in with the mid-2010’s New Mutants run I was reading last year. This volume includes two story arcs tied into Marvel’s Fear Itself crossover event, one following our no-longer-teenage band of merry mutants, the other a high octane Wolverine solo adventure.
While I assumed the Wolverine half of the book would be of less interest to me, I ended up enjoying it a lot. It’s the basic “big bad secret society you’ve never heard of show up to terrorise the city” narrative, but it finds a neat way to tie in Logan’s girlfriend (a news reporter) and the action scenes are big and broad and over the top- exactly what you want from this sort of thing. As you can see from the cover, Wolverine is literally strapped to nuke. What’s to complain about?
The New Mutants arc was less successful, in that it derailed the primary threads of the previous books to insert itself into the Marvel-wide Fear Itself crossover, which heavily involved Asgard’s mythology. There’s certainly some enjoyable banter between the core cast, but try as I might, I cant bring myself to care about those bloody Norse gods. Even when Dani Moonstar is involved.
Looking forward to getting back to the series, but this felt more like a pit stop than anything else.
While I assumed the Wolverine half of the book would be of less interest to me, I ended up enjoying it a lot. It’s the basic “big bad secret society you’ve never heard of show up to terrorise the city” narrative, but it finds a neat way to tie in Logan’s girlfriend (a news reporter) and the action scenes are big and broad and over the top- exactly what you want from this sort of thing. As you can see from the cover, Wolverine is literally strapped to nuke. What’s to complain about?
The New Mutants arc was less successful, in that it derailed the primary threads of the previous books to insert itself into the Marvel-wide Fear Itself crossover, which heavily involved Asgard’s mythology. There’s certainly some enjoyable banter between the core cast, but try as I might, I cant bring myself to care about those bloody Norse gods. Even when Dani Moonstar is involved.
Looking forward to getting back to the series, but this felt more like a pit stop than anything else.
June 18, 2018
Continuing the great x-read of 2017/2018... (and I am really far behind with my reviews so I will be putting up a bunch of quick-takes to catch up...)
Another boring Fear Itself tie-in though the wolvie story is vaguely entertaining. How did I miss that he has an ongoing romantic relationship? When did this happen? And what kind of woman would want to date Logan?
Another boring Fear Itself tie-in though the wolvie story is vaguely entertaining. How did I miss that he has an ongoing romantic relationship? When did this happen? And what kind of woman would want to date Logan?
January 18, 2020
The NM story is fine, but the Wolverine story is pretty amateurish all the way around.
February 9, 2022
This comic slaps.
May 30, 2015
H.A.M.M.E.R, S.T.R.I.K.E, S.W.O.R.D, S.H.I.E.L.D, man....they really like their acronyms over at Marvel don't they?
This trade started off clunky and never really got much better. For some reason Wolverine was fighting the Scarecrow on the streets in the beginning. I guess DC loaned him to Marvel...lol...relax fanboy! ...I know Marvel has their own version...which sucks by the way! DC's version is much better!
This is one of those books that you start reading and immediately you feel like you've missed a bunch of stuff! I just binge read a bunch of X-Men trades over the past few days and I still have no idea what's going on here!
Apparently Wolvie has a girlfriend now, which is good for ol' Wolvie but he seems to be showing some serious PDA which...y'know is probably a really frikkin' dumb thing since he has so many enemies. When she ends up dead, it's on you pal! But then again maybe it's not on you Wolvie since as he goes to assault a frikkin Heli-carrier and she says, "Let me go with you! You think I can't handle myself?!"
He's going to take on a whole Heli-carrier by himself and she wants to tag along??!!! She could be a candidate for stupidest person ever-Darwin Awards recipient! Then Wolvie gives her his access card to Avengers tower like its no big deal....WTF!?!? This guy's been burned so many times you'd think he'd be a bit more cautious! Wolvie's really been letting himself go and it shows since he gets snuck up on (even though he has heightened senses) and generally gets his butt kicked through his story arc.
By the way...even though the book says 'Wolverine' 'New Mutants', they don't appear in it together as they're two separate story arcs that don't really relate.
The New Mutants arc was kind of all over the place and if you're a NM fan and you're aware of what's been going on with them, then you're in luck. Otherwise you won't really know what's going on. I haven't ready any recent NM so I was lost!
This trade started off clunky and never really got much better. For some reason Wolverine was fighting the Scarecrow on the streets in the beginning. I guess DC loaned him to Marvel...lol...relax fanboy! ...I know Marvel has their own version...which sucks by the way! DC's version is much better!
This is one of those books that you start reading and immediately you feel like you've missed a bunch of stuff! I just binge read a bunch of X-Men trades over the past few days and I still have no idea what's going on here!
Apparently Wolvie has a girlfriend now, which is good for ol' Wolvie but he seems to be showing some serious PDA which...y'know is probably a really frikkin' dumb thing since he has so many enemies. When she ends up dead, it's on you pal! But then again maybe it's not on you Wolvie since as he goes to assault a frikkin Heli-carrier and she says, "Let me go with you! You think I can't handle myself?!"
He's going to take on a whole Heli-carrier by himself and she wants to tag along??!!! She could be a candidate for stupidest person ever-Darwin Awards recipient! Then Wolvie gives her his access card to Avengers tower like its no big deal....WTF!?!? This guy's been burned so many times you'd think he'd be a bit more cautious! Wolvie's really been letting himself go and it shows since he gets snuck up on (even though he has heightened senses) and generally gets his butt kicked through his story arc.
By the way...even though the book says 'Wolverine' 'New Mutants', they don't appear in it together as they're two separate story arcs that don't really relate.
The New Mutants arc was kind of all over the place and if you're a NM fan and you're aware of what's been going on with them, then you're in luck. Otherwise you won't really know what's going on. I haven't ready any recent NM so I was lost!
May 20, 2014
I enjoyed Fear Itself though it wasn't as good as other crossovers. I've picked up most of the tie-ins, with a few of them being stand out reads. I found the Uncanny X-Men: Fear Itself tie-in to be inconsequential and expected the same here. I should have had more faith in Wolverine!
This tie-in was excellent. The first half of the book follows Wolverine as he deals with a Helicarrier, stolen by mercenaries, that is now hovering over New York City. He and his girlfriend, a reporter, are on the ground trying to contain the madness and stop opportunistic villains from wreaking even more havoc when he gets the call from Captain America to deal with this new situation. I really don't know why I don't read Wolverine's solo series since his stories have been a stand out for every crossover I have read so far. He's fun, he's violent and he gets the job done.
The second half of the book ties more directly into Fear Itself. Cyclops sends Dani Moonstar and the New Mutants to try and find the Asgardian Death Goddess Hela and seek her help. Only, it turns out that Hel itself is under assault and she needs them! I'm only vaguely familiar with these characters and still found this story to be utterly compelling. The action was incredible.
Overall, this ended up being one of the best tie-ins for the event. Highly recommended!
This tie-in was excellent. The first half of the book follows Wolverine as he deals with a Helicarrier, stolen by mercenaries, that is now hovering over New York City. He and his girlfriend, a reporter, are on the ground trying to contain the madness and stop opportunistic villains from wreaking even more havoc when he gets the call from Captain America to deal with this new situation. I really don't know why I don't read Wolverine's solo series since his stories have been a stand out for every crossover I have read so far. He's fun, he's violent and he gets the job done.
The second half of the book ties more directly into Fear Itself. Cyclops sends Dani Moonstar and the New Mutants to try and find the Asgardian Death Goddess Hela and seek her help. Only, it turns out that Hel itself is under assault and she needs them! I'm only vaguely familiar with these characters and still found this story to be utterly compelling. The action was incredible.
Overall, this ended up being one of the best tie-ins for the event. Highly recommended!
July 31, 2013
This volume contains Wolverine and New Mutants issues associated with the 2011 Marvel crossover event Fear Itself. This is not the volume to find out the core story of Fear Itself and this volume doesn’t pretend to be anything more than a tie-in to the main storyline.
The Wolverine storyline has Wolverine fighting rogue agents who take the events of Fear Itself as a sign. The highlight of this story was in the depiction of Wolverine being psychically invaded and in how the writer portrayed Wolverine’s girlfriend using Twitter. However, the story overall was a hit-and-miss and I didn’t feel that it was anything more than another ho-hum Wolverine saves the day from crazy bad-guys.
In contrast, the New Mutants storyline had the New Mutants dealing with Hela, the Asgardian Queen of the Dead, the Asgardian side of Dani Moonstar and an unexpected detour. This story explored interesting concepts and was able to use the wider storytelling canvas for a more expansive and ultimately more interesting art style.
This is not a volume to introduce people neither to the Marvel/X-Men world, nor to the power of graphic novels in particular. Instead, read and enjoy it for what it is if you are already a fan of either of the two series.
The Wolverine storyline has Wolverine fighting rogue agents who take the events of Fear Itself as a sign. The highlight of this story was in the depiction of Wolverine being psychically invaded and in how the writer portrayed Wolverine’s girlfriend using Twitter. However, the story overall was a hit-and-miss and I didn’t feel that it was anything more than another ho-hum Wolverine saves the day from crazy bad-guys.
In contrast, the New Mutants storyline had the New Mutants dealing with Hela, the Asgardian Queen of the Dead, the Asgardian side of Dani Moonstar and an unexpected detour. This story explored interesting concepts and was able to use the wider storytelling canvas for a more expansive and ultimately more interesting art style.
This is not a volume to introduce people neither to the Marvel/X-Men world, nor to the power of graphic novels in particular. Instead, read and enjoy it for what it is if you are already a fan of either of the two series.
November 28, 2012
The New Mutants story offers an interesting alternate view on the conflict, building nicely on Dani’s longstanding Nordic connections. It even gets a chance for some good characterization of Nate along the way [7/10]. The Wolverine story (which I got stuck with as opposed to actually wanting it) is vastly mediocre — though I’ll admit to never liking the spunky-girlfriend-who-is-totally-normal-and-totally-kickass thing, and that’s a pretty major feature of this comic. Beyond that, we’ve got about one issue worth of plot strung out over three issues and it only has the most tangential relationship to Fear Itself. I was bored [4/10].
November 17, 2012
Great art in both sections of this book. But the artist drawing Wolverine was a bit more consistent, and it was nice to see someone drawing outside of the Marvel style for a change. However, the artist that drew New Mutants must have had to rush along the further he got into the story. Also, Sunspot has been drawn to look Samoan, which is an odd choice. Plots for both are easily forgettable, as was most of the Fear Itself. It gets 4 stars for style alone.
August 10, 2016
I hadn't read the Wolverine or New Mutants runs that follow and lead this volume, but it wasn't really necessary for this story (although it would have helped some in the New Mutants area, I suppose, to have background on why Dani has 'a relationship' with Asgard (I think Cyclops phrases it that way... Someone does). Not bad. Overall, not great but it gets an extra star for being better than almost every other 'Fear Itself' tie in o have read in the lay 48 hours.
August 13, 2012
Wolverine has to stop the destruction of a major city, while protcting his girlfriend. The New mutants have to journey to Hel to save her from the great evil. I enjoyed both stories, but did prefer the New Mutants one. It felt more of a tie-in, and was really adding to the myth of Asgard. A good read.
December 1, 2016
I read the Wolverine half of this back in June and thought it was okay. I enjoyed the New Mutants more. I haven't read them before this and unfortunately this wasn't the best way to spotlight who they are. The plot was cool though. I didn't realize how much I dig magic stuff in comics until lately.
April 23, 2013
Only rating the Wolverine issues (since I do not care for the New Mutants): 1/5 stars. Unnecessary and not very good.
June 5, 2015
Wolverine story was meh, but the New Mutants were delightful. At one point Warlock becomes a front loader with a frying pan for... reasons?
November 22, 2013
I found this whole side story, very good.
May 7, 2014
I actually enjoyed the new mutants half more than Wolverine, and I normally love Wolverine......
September 27, 2014
New Mutants only.
November 29, 2014
2.5 stars
July 28, 2016
4 stars for the New Mutants side, which I loved. Can't say anything in regards to the Wolverine part, as I did not read it.
December 8, 2016
3 stars for New Mutants.
1.5 stars for Wolverine.
First time I didn't care about Logan.
1.5 stars for Wolverine.
First time I didn't care about Logan.
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