Fury's Big Week was announced in February 2012, with Marvel Studios working closely with the comics division to ensure continuity between the various products.

Pearson, who had never written a comic before but did write several Marvel One-Shots for the company, was responsible for the final scripts, with Yost assisting him with plotting the series.

[5][6] The comic retells the events of The Incredible Hulk, Iron Man 2, Thor, and Captain America: The First Avenger from the point-of-view of S.H.I.E.L.D., with extra scenes added to weave them all together.

Yost noted that the comic "got the seal of approval" from Kevin Feige and Jeremy Latcham at Marvel Studios, "so this is the real deal" in terms of the MCU continuity.

[4] The concept of "Fury's Big Week" had been conceived by executive Brad Winderbaum when he was hired in October 2008, with one of his first tasks to create a timeline for the MCU.

's search for Captain America's crashed plane in the Arctic, as well as the surveillance of Tony Stark and Bruce Banner / Hulk, in favor of Project Pegasus — S.H.I.E.L.D.

is actively studying Sterns, Jane Foster's Nine Realms Theory, and the Destroyer — which they now have control over, and are developing into a handheld gun — and have been successful in their search for Captain America.

Barton is assigned to watch Dr. Erik Selvig at Project Pegasus, who, using Stark's new element, is on the brink of harnessing the Tesseract's power, but who is also under the control of the Asgardian Loki.

[17] Fury's Big Week received praise from CJ Wheeler of Den of Geek, who thought the tone of the series was "a perfect fit for the Marvel Cinematic Universe so far and will get you stoked for what's to come."

director Nick Fury and fan-favourite Agent Coulson get a chance to shine, with some great lines from both that could easily by delivered by Sam Jackson and Clark Gregg."