Only Bucky can look badass while saying "Knuckle Sandwich"
Book of the Skull really kept me on an unexpected pace when involving the Red Skull into Marvel’s next EPIC event known as Fear Itself. Even though Brubaker introduced Red Skull’s involvement much more differently than what I expected, his handling on how Red Skull’s daughter, the newest Red Skull would take a role within Fear Itself.
Marvel One-Shot’s usually give a Love or Hate feeling, meaning that these One-Shot’s tend to go either horribly bad, or very entertaining. This Prologue of Fear Itself did manage to find itself handled properly by Brubaker and the artists when adding more into Red Skull’s past, adding another dark moment that involved Namor’s beloved Atlanteans. Book of the Skull sets itself in two places, past and present that revolves around both Red Skull and his daughter Sin trying to obtain this mysterious object of “supposed” power. Even though my feelings on Sin’s new display of fitting into her daddy’s over-sized Nazi boots isn’t quite there, seeing how she has a “loooong” way to go before claiming the Red Skull title, but I love how she’s doing a good job on climbing the ranks of defining herself as the better Red Skull.
With that said, Book of the Skull is only a beginning chapter that adds more into Red Skull’s dark history during WWII and manages display our “new” Red Skull properly. Aside from a few situations that carry’s absolutely no support and are completely random and that there isn’t any typical conflict between Red Skull and Captain America, I would say that Book of the Skull is an interesting catch for those who anticipated with this upcoming event that went properly successful on steering itself into Fear Itself.Fear Itself: Book of the Skull is a well presented One-Shot that really caught my interest for the upcoming event. Personally I dislike how there wasn't any sign of the Red Skull making his involvement into Fear Itself, but seeing how his daughter is expected to have a major role, it would be very exciting to see how his daughter would play her role within this new event. But Book of the Skull really didn't display anything that was Epic or anything else that blew my mind away, only thing that I felt coming from this comic was how it strongly focused on starting off the new event with Red Skull's daughter.
Thankyou for reading and all Hail Cobra.
