Fear Itself: Spider-Man #1

Fear Itself is Marvel's next big comic book changing event that is sweeping to all heroes and villains in the Marvel Universe. With the main title already having two issues, and there being multiple subtitles already on shelves, Spider-Man is just beginning his first Fear induced issue. With cats eating dogs, fish eating fish, business C.E.O. wanting to commit suicide and babies being born earlier, there is a lot of fear talked about in a title that is basically called "Fear Itself". So how will one hero, Spider-Man, handle all of the chaos that Fear has brought onto the entire world including Manhattan? Well you have to stick along for the ride then! Written by Christopher Yost with artwork by Mike McKone, and colors by Jeromy Cox.

The Good

The Fear itself has been an interesting book to say. Reading the additional titles that will give perspective on how other heroes are coping with Fear and how there lives are being affected, is really awesome. If I am correct, I think this is the first time in this title that fear has actually been mentioned in the book, but then again I think I remember in Fear Itself Homefront where it was mentioned. Anyway, things go crazy as a corporate C.F.O. is thinking about suicide, a mother with a baby that is about to be born is trying to convince her husband that the baby is his, and a homeowner that has lost his job is going to protect himself, his family and his house from being taken by the bank. I like how Christopher Yost does a excellent job at telling this story. Not just making Spider-Man the main character, but also having ordinary civilians as main players in this story also. While not trying to take away from the story, Chris Yost opens Spider-Man's fear up and takes him for a ride. What does Spider-Man fear? A lot of things I tell you! However, his fear of failing has been displayed all around throughout his entire comic book existence. With a title like this, it shows how Spider-Man is just trying to help others, in a world this is beginning to hate him, once more.

This issue just shows how Spider-Man is trying to save Manhattan, while looking for his family during the chaos. The story plays out in perfection, Spider-Man gets badly wounded and Vermin decides to get away from his fear for Spider-Man once and for all. The artwork by Mike McKone and colors by Jeromy Cox were really nice. How the entire interior artwork turned out was awesome, at the beginning I didn't think the artwork looked good however I could see how they did a good job with various interior panels like Spider-Man looking at the really awesome fear lightning storm 

The Bad

It begins to really get annoying when Spider-Man, again, announces that he has no spider-sense anymore. This has been mentioned from titles like Amazing Spider-Man and a few others. I mean yes it is good to know that writers are trying to get readers up to speed on Spider-Man's crisis, however how long will this go on? I am just waiting for him to get his ability back so that this constant reminder disappears. What is funny/weird at the same time is how is Fear affecting the phone lines? With this unexplained phenomenon, it takes away from the story on how I constantly get reminded by phones being down. 

The Verdict

Pick this subtitle up if you wish, you don't need this title or any other Fear title to read the main Fear Itself book. This is out on sale today, and is really good for Spider-Man fans. Overall this is a 4.5 out of 5.