By: Christos Gage & Mike Mayhew
Color Art By: Rain Beredo
Jimmy Woo: The Age of Anxiety (3 of 4)
By: Peter Milligan & Ella Bonetti
Color Art By: John Rauch
Edited By: Rachel Pinnelas
A Moment With... The People of Paris
By: Howard Chaykin & Edgar Delgado
Cardiac: "Breakdown"
By: Ben McCool & Mike Del Mundo
The Speedball segment was very well done. There was obvious character growth on the part of not only Robbie Baldwin but more so Mirian Sharpe, who put her grief and anger aside in order to do what was right and to help prevent others from suffering the same loss that she feels. Robbie keeps his promise and while it does not appear as if they'll be getting together for tea anytime soon, that the hatred and blame had been put aside and the rebuilding had begun.
Jimmy Woo's story I just cannot seem to get into. There seems to be some interesting character potential with the cast, but the story just isn't grabbing my attention and rather than skip Jimmy altogether I skimmed through the rest of it just in case something interesting happened. It didn't.
The people of Paris bit was an interesting side note. Though not of any story importance it does make the loss of life due to the events of Fear Itself seem more tangible as it puts a human face on the casualties.
Cardiac is a character I always kind of liked ever since he started popping up in the pages of Spiderman. He was and remains a unique character who I would like to see more of. That being said (or written rather) I was not impressed with his story here. It seemed like a half hearted attempt to rehash Cardiac's origin in the context of the Fear Itself story. Unlike some other tie-in stories in Fear Itself this one feels like forced filler.
