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The landscape of the Marvel Universe is changing, and it’s time to choose: Whose side are you on? A conflict has been brewing from more than a year, threatening to pit friend against friend, brother against brother – and all it will take is a single misstep to cost thousands their lives and place a match to the fuse! As the war claims its first victims, no one is safe as teams, friendships and families start to fall apart. The crossover that rewrites the rules, Civil War stars Spider-Man, the New Avengers, the Fantastic Four, the X-Men, and the entirety of the Marvel pantheon! Collects Civil War #1-7 and Marvel Spotlight: Civil War.
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I hadn’t read comics since 1992. I heard the hype and selected this up and WOW, was I surprised! Most comics that I read never seemed to have any depth back then. I don’t know if I just missed it because I was really immature back then. Possibly, but I doubt it…
The tale ties in the issues we are confronting in the REAL world. Something our well loved media would do well to consider. And this keeps the mature readers interested. The tale of an incident making a reactionary response is something we are too familiar with. And the continuing tale of persons reactionaries taking things TOO far is also timely.
Yes, some of the characters did things out of character. I wasn’t crazy about Spidey doing what he did but now I marvel how he is going to handle the unavoidable change and its consequences. As to Iron Man? I like hating that embodiment of corporate/capitalist swine! And I am following him now. I like BIG tales now as a replacement for of one issue tales. Marvel should keep the huge overarching plots going. (Is the Initiative going to survive? I hope not!) Looking forwards to World War Hulk!
Artwork was fantastic. But, visuals are secondary to writing with some kind of weight to real life. All in all, I’m back into comics. I hope the mature storylines stick.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
Marvel’s latest “event” is a huge disappointment all around. The premise behind the superhero “Civil War” is that following a superhero catastrophe, the public community calls for the registration of heroes to prevent another disaster from sloppy, under-trained superheroes.
This causes a rift in the superhero community, with roughly half (how convenient) supporting the registration, and the additional half against it.
Now here’s where the premise starts to break apart. What’s the argument for the anti-registration heroes? The pro-registration heroes say that registration is safer (no insane people like the punisher running around KILLING criminals), and provide training and legitimacy for superheroes.
What do the anti-registration heroes say? Well . . . nothing really . . . A few concerns regarding the privacy and safety of their secret identities, and, ridiculously, some constitutional opinion by the leader of the anti-registration team claiming that somehow the beloved USA bestows upon its citizens the right to run around town beating criminals up.
What?
Yeah, pretty ridiculous.
The sad part of it all, somewhere along the way, Millar (the writer) must’ve realized how weak the anti-reg argument was, and was forced to bouy their side by having the pro-reg side do ridiculously out-of-character and immoral moves to try to trick the reader into thinking, “Hey, pro-registration is whack!”
I’ll toss it an extra star since the artwork was pretty excellent, and that followers of the House of Thoughts probably *have* to read this drivel in order to stay up-to-date on the happenings of the Marvel Universe.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
Civil War (Marvel Comics)
For some reason fanboys ’round the world have either praised or brusquely complained about the Civil War series. Mark Millar has written some fantastic comics. This is no exception. Fantastic book.
Reader’s Rating: 4 / 5
When I first heard about civil war in most of the issues of wizard magazine, I was really pretty anticapated to see what it was all about and the whole tag-line of curtain changes for key marvel characters. The book starts with the new warriors filming a relatity t.v. show in stamford,connecuit, then a fight breaks out between the new warriors a two additional villain which sadly results in the death of more 300 then people. Before long after this the goverment comes up with the super-human resigration act, which demands that any super-hero must give their right identities to the goverment and factually become an agent. Of course in right fasion of any war, Ironman and most of marvel’s heavy hitters on pro-registration, while Captain America and most of the not so well loved marvel characters side on anti-registration. While what I’ve clarify so far seems alot like a excellent concept, the end result is mostly a bunch of hits and misses. The first thing to place out and on a positive note is if your expecting some fantastic action scences and really excellent art (courtsey of Steve McNiven) then this is definatly your kind of book! With heroes like Captain America and Ironman beating the the crap out of each additional, this is where Steve’s art work really shines, espically when it comes to most of the action scences in this i.e. Captian America riding a jet or Spider-Man escape from Stark Tower. But on the downside, and this really weaken the book the most is the character devlopment itself. Characters like Spider-Man and Ironman seem really off key. For example there’s not alot going on in Peter Parker’s mind when he decides to reveal his identity to the entire world on national television, and there also another point too! Why after countless years of guilt over the death of Uncle Ben and Gwen Stacy’s death that he makes such a stupid go like that!!! Also marratle problems between the Fantastic Four isn’t really anything new here but for Reed Richards not too see something like this coming as well and not to confronte with his wife on this theme just makes him as boneheaded as Peter was. For a writer like Mark Millar to really aviod things like this and to have events just take place out of the blue with no reasoning is really disappointing for a writer of his calaber is just really upsetting, espcially for some who wrote the Utlimates and marvel knights Spider-man (both highly recommened by the way). Maybe if Marvel had a chance to really reflect out this concept and try to focus on the political discussion lacking entirely avioding for a beat’em up tale then this could reasonably possiably be one of the best comic events that has ever occured, but unfortunetly that will only be a dream to most marvel as for what we get in civil war is what we get. But on that note I did find this to be a excellent read overall and do recommend it for it art and action, but also for the fact that this is an estential book for all persons who wish to know whats happened to their favorite heroes so far. I would also like to highly recommend the compainion books for civil war, like incredible spider-man, new avengers, captain america vs ironman, and the road to civil war to gain more and much better details on civil wars key events like spider-man unmasking and why ironman is really pro-registration. Also on another note civil war did help make ironman more exciting. So until Joe Quesada and J.M. Straczynski kill Mary Jane (please don’t for all that is holy for so many reasons!!!)I’ll make mine Marvel! P.S. Rest In Peace Captain America.
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5
Lacking going into spoilers, because some people still haven’t read it yet; I’d like to point out what this really is, versus what people were expecting…
It is not a huge heroes vs villains free-for-all with a pleased ending in which the excellent guys win.
What it *IS* is a giant step into the next age of comics for Marvel, you can’t continue from a ‘pleased ending’ , you continue from turmoil. So, it wouldn’t make sense for an “All is well” ending. Marvel was leading into a darker period, for a more mature audience all around, and they succeeded perfectly in that.
I highly suggest this for fans of nearly any marvel series, but it’s by no means a excellent standalone series, it wasn’t meant to be. If you like anything Marvel puts out, odds are that you’ll want thiS in order to better grasp how and why the Marvel world has changed so much.
All in all, a fantastic collection with lots of twists and turns. I was very pleased, but I do want to emphasize that this is not a pleased-ending, “Gee, I’m sure glad that’s all over” type of tale. And lacking spoiling anything, I suggest the prologue as well; just be prepared for one very harsh end to the series. Remember, this was all designed to propell the various franchises into future tale archs and to add more backstory and conflict for them to have; not as a standalone.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5