Civil war ruined Marvel comics for me. I bought between 15 to 25 different titles monthly. I don't care for the direction of the Marvel Universe. We live in an approaching police state, so I don't want to read about it.





Thanks Joe Q, you're saving me at least $100 monthly.

If I could rep you I would....that's the most well thought look at this whole story!

Thanks! It was a combined analysis between my roommate and I, so rep Entertainer13 if you can't rep me, he's part of the masterminding of this too!

This is a law which was attained through duplicitous means though. From the very beginning, before CW, internal factors were already leading up to Registration. Iron Man and his Illuminati knew ahead of time that the act was coming. But rather than engaging fellow heroes who would be affected in discussion Tony made the executive decision to support Registration before it was even presented to the government. By the time Cap even knew Registration was coming he was too late to protest it through legal channels. Evidence of that was SHIELD's attempt to arrest him before the act even passed, thus preventing any unified opposition. To that end, Registration itself is unconstitutional because it's acceptance was only possible by infringing on freedom of speech.

I suppose Cap didn't have to fight. He could have rolled over and just let the totalitarian law take over while he sat in a POW camp. But that's just not his character. And ultimately his giving up shows a lot more character as a patriot. Knowing the potential damage from the continued struggle Cap backed down because Tony wouldn't. Still a lame ending which seemed to come out of nowhere.

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Not to pile onto the lameness, but apparently Tony Stark was behind EVERYTHING.

Quoting from the article, if you don't want to scroll through everything (last paragraph):

should i bother to read it?

Hey, it's Wizards' weekly recap of Civil War. Read it or not, it's up to you. But I think I captured the meat of it from the snippet I included.

(And I mainly included the link so that people didn't think I was just making this stuff up myself.)

If I remember Civil War #1 correctly, as you should if you have just read it, Captain America wasn't given the opportunity to peacefully protest, challenge the legality in court, testify before Congress, or otherwise 'consider' going through the proper channels.

He was confronted, by SHIELD, before the law even went into effect -- at the point of many, many guns -- and told to sign the papers or go to jail.

SHIELD didn't give Captain America the opportunity to do anything but fight.

not being negitive I was wondering if there was anything good about it or if it was just awful

shield was deffinetly in the wrong in that confrontation, but its not like cap could not have gotten to reporters etc, I lack the energy for a good debate at the moment a friend passed on and I find myself feeling very old at the moment

No worries, sometimes with tempers getting heated about this, I prefer to err on the side of defensiveness.

I thought the synopsis was good... and the storyline... well, if that didn't make Civil War WORST SERIES EVER before, it definitely does now. So much for investigative journalism.

Well that's stuff we already knew. Well all of it except for them ruining Ben Urich like that. (don't know enough about Sally to comment.)

Also BP kinda ruins that Hercules moment. Lame. Man I hate that book.

Ah my favorite part you didn't mention from the recap....

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She claims that because he doesn't know what Americans are about anymore and because he's fighting for an ideal of America instead of things like high cholesterol, MySpace and Paris Hilton (because that's what Americans care about), he has torn the new America apart.

Guh? So... Cap's wrong because... he's fighting for a better America? Seriously? He's wrong because the US as a society have degenerated into a bunch of fat, internet nerds who are a former shell of what America used to be?

Did Captain America really fail the Marvel US here? I'd argue the Marvel US are the ones who failed Captain America.

JacinB, once again the voice of reason.