Comic Review: Marvel's CIVIL WAR

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Marvel’s CIVIL WAR comic review

This highly anticipated blockbuster event started off with a bang. Literally, with the villain known as NITRO, who has the ability to explode himself, blowing up a part of Stamford, Connecticut and killing over 600 people, including 200 children who were at school. The reason for Nitro’s action were due to a raid by the superhero group known as the NEW WARRIORS. After the event, citizens urge for there to be something done to people with supernatural powers. Congress passed the superhero registration act which would force metahumans to register with the government, reveal their identity and join a task force or... be arrested. Some heroes, like IRON MAN, agreed with the registration act seeing it has a natural evolution for the role of superheroes in today’s society. Others, like CAPTAIN AMERICA, opposed the registration act and felt it went against people’s rights as American citizens. Thus a war began. Those who are for the act. And those who oppose it.

As a whole the event was pretty good. It had some great moments (new Spidey suit, Spidey unmasking, Thor’s clone killing Goliath, Cap vs. Shellhead). However, it lost something towards the end. Marvel built the event up so much that by the end the events that transpired didn’t meet expectations, especially after delays and an over abundance of tie-ins. The conclusion was lackluster and overshadowed by the death of Captain America in the following issue (number 25) of his series after the event had already ended.

Not to mention that Iron Man, my favorite character, was turned into a villain by an overwhelming support against him and his pro-registration views.

Overall, CIVIL WAR was entertaining but I can’t help but believe that much motive for the series was based singularly on selling comics rather than making the best stories, which Marvel has always prided it's self on.

Rating = 7.5/10