Could Chaos War have been a bigger event than Fear Itself

[Sabrewulf]

I'm a big Van Lente fan but to be honest this was for the most part just a Hercules event.

Still I liked the concept. What if instead of a Hercules event it had been a MU event.

With an immortal god squad and teams of dead characters coming into play.

So outside of the main title you would have

Chaos War: The Immortals

Hercules
Thor
Silver Surfer
Snowbird
Apocalypse
Mister Immortal
Wonderman
Artemis

The

Chaos War X-Men

Phoenix
Maggot
Banshee
Sabretooth
Changeling
Diamond Lil
Revanche
Nightcrawler

Dead Avengers

Yellow Jacket
Swordsman
Deathcry
Dr Druid
Captain Marvel
Jack Of Hearts
Lady Dorma
Whizzer
Ms America

Dead Villains

Zemo
Beetle 2
Pyro
Vargas
Egghead
Porcupine
Sabretooth
Jester
Sienna Blaze

Solo Books

Rintrah Sorcerer Supreme

Blubird ( SUntold Tales of Spiderman)

Torpedo

Wasp

Jarella

Jim Wilson: THe Incredible Hulk


Monkey Joe & The MIsfits

Monkey Joe
Grasshopper
Negasonic Teenage Warhead
Tag
Microbe
Dinah Soar
Mole

[Sighphi]

Since Mika was an older god it should have been.
And where is Mika now? I didnt read it. He should pop in an pwn this little Asgardian worm.

[Sean Walsh]

FI just seems to have developed out of the blue - Chaos War, meanwhile, had its story & origins set well before Secret Invasion, IIRC, and had fairly strong ties to other books as well (Ares/Dark Avengers, and his son over in Secret Warriors).

Chaos War could've definitely been the event Fear Itself is now.

[UKFan]

Chaos War should have been bigger than anything that had come before, earth based or otherwise, but when you put most of the major heroes to sleep in the 1st issue, you limit the impact.

[XPac]

It could have been a bigger event... in theory.

The cope of it was certainly large. Bigger than any marvel event I can think of it recent history.

But I can't say I'm disappointed it didn't end up smaller and self contained. It was sort of a so-so event, with a really weird sense of scale.

[Nomads1]

Chaos War should have been bigger than anything that had come before, earth based or otherwise, but when you put most of the major heroes to sleep in the 1st issue, you limit the impact.

LOL. QFT.

Peace

[HopeLantern]

Chaos War: Jim Wilson - The Incredible Hulk... I would have paid money to read that, that's for sure.

Chaos War had the potential to be a very major Cosmic Level Company wide event. I guess the problem with that is that you would have had an enormous number of tie-ins, which is one of the things I fear is going to derail "Flashpoint". I wouldn't have minded a few stories about dead heroes/ villians back to life but Marvel would have had to try that much harder to not make it look like "Blackest Night - The Sequel".

[Lord Bravery]

It could have and should have been a big event. But it's main antagonist was a B-Lister and it's probably some of Van Lente's weakest mainstream writing.

[berk]

I don't know what Fear Itself is about yet, but Chaos Wars was always a bad idea and should have been discarded before it ever got to the planning stages, IMO.

In general you should beware of any Marvel comic with the word "Wars" in the title. I've never seen a good one yet.

[Sean Walsh]

....but when you put most of the major heroes to sleep in the 1st issue, you limit the impact.

Somehow, I completely overlooked that. Heh.

Though there was a day when something like that coulda still been a big company-wide event, and secondary folks (with a couple top guys still awake and in the mix somehow) could've saved the day for EVERYONE in the Marvel Universe.

[K Von Doom]

Chaos War should have been bigger than anything that had come before, earth based or otherwise, but when you put most of the major heroes to sleep in the 1st issue, you limit the impact.

It was in the writing. Infinity Gauntlet #1 outright erased the X-Men, Fantastic Four, New Warriors, Alpha Flight, half the Avengers, Daredevil and several others yet it was extraordinarily epic.

[UKFan]

It was in the writing. Infinity Gauntlet #1 outright erased the X-Men, Fantastic Four, New Warriors, Alpha Flight, half the Avengers, Daredevil and several others yet it was extraordinarily epic.

Yeah, very good point.