Huh.
Well, in what I’m going to guess is a scan from this week’s comics, the nice folks over at Bleeding Cool have uploaded the Stuart Immonen sketch design for Sin in Fear Itself. Apparently she’s going to get a hammer and rage all over the place, which is no good for anyone. Of course, Fear Itself is supposedly her fault in the first place as she is the one to “awaken” the God of Fear, something her father failed to do (with this information being put together from solicits, teases, and that Matt Fraction Word Balloon episode from a month or so back), so I guess it’s understandable how she ends up with a hammer… although I could’ve sworn reading somewhere that Odin gives out the hammers, and if she’s the one that screwed everything up, that seems a tad backwards, no? I’m being told that it’s actually the Serpent that dishes out the hammers. In that case, this makes sense.
Bleeding Cool also quotes the writer and the artist of Fear Itself with some teases about Sin and her role:
“Aww, look at Daddy’s Little Girl, all grown up. In a few issues time she’ll accomplish what her father failed to do” — Matt Fraction
“The design challenge for this character was to honor her previous incarnations while incorporating quasi-Norse ophidian elements. Moreover, the idea was to make her look powerful, imposing, and god-like, Nothing like raising the bar from page one, right?” — Stuart Immonen
So there you have it. Fear Itself. April 2011.
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