Avengers #13

This is the 1st of 5 Fear Itself tie-ins. Chris Bachalo's cartoony art is OK but not to my taste. His Red Hulk is weird. Ms Marvel's mask often looks like a very large pair of glasses. And then there's his male chins. A passing comment indicates that the interviews for the Oral History book have been going on for years. The shots before the splash page must be from scattered earlier interviews. They include currently dead people (Wasp), people with varying facial hair (Thor), and people with varying costumes (Wasp again, of course). The interviews after the splash page are all about Fear Itself, and feature the current crew. Beast, Giant-Man, Quicksilver and Wasp only appear as talking heads. Sin's army attacked Washington in FI#2. The splash page says it's now on the way to New York, which won't actually happen until FI#4. It doesn't say which city is shown under attack here, but it looks more like NY to me. It's actually Stark Resilient that's going to rebuild Asgard, with help from the populace of Broxton. Putting the Avengers on stage is just a political move. The plan to rebuild Asgard on Earth takes a blow when Odin leads his people back to the Asgardian dimension in FI#2. But the Earthly Asgard *does* get rebuilt after Fear Itself.