{"id":29325,"date":"2025-10-28T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/?p=29325"},"modified":"2024-02-18T17:44:54","modified_gmt":"2024-02-18T21:44:54","slug":"civil-war-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/comicsfromspace.com\/spiderman\/2025\/10\/28\/civil-war-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Civil War 2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

We could be looking at so many more tie-ins if I had them. Iron Man, Wolverine, FF. But I didn\u2019t take the bait to buy the entire Marvel publishing line because of this. I stuck to what I was already buying. Well, sort of. I signed back on to ASM for this, knowing what was coming. So New Avengers and ASM were the only tie-ins I had for the first issue. That would not last. Here\u2019s this one\u2019s back cover:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Jim Steranko does one design-y SHIELD cover, and instead of taking the lesson \u201cWe should do more challenging covers,\u201d Marvel has spent the intervening 60 years going \u201cThat cover was cool, we should reference it.\u201d We open on the Vulture and Grim Reaper chained to a pillar under the caption \u201cCaptain America goes underground,\u201d Vulture complaining Cap broke his nose. Where\u2019d he get the chains?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Using Grim Reaper is stupid, considering his whole deal. Also, the idea that Cap and his squad are suddenly stopping every villain in the world in 72 hours begs the question \u201cWhy don\u2019t they do this all the time?\u201d Civil War is the comic that dares to ask all the questions whose answers make your comics worse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It\u2019s the 2000s, gotta have that gratuitous and unnecessary butt shot. Meanwhile, at the Baxter Building, Reed & Sue have a 2-page conversation that makes it clear they will wind up on opposite sides of the conflict. Quelle surprise! That\u2019s the kind of \u201cshocking twist\u201d that anyone could see coming if they know Millar.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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JJJ saying heroes are ok if they register is the kind of revisionist history \u201cI was always saying this\u201d thing he would do. Points for that. I try to be fair!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Happy Hogan! Couldn\u2019t tell you the last time I saw that guy. Next, it\u2019s 24 hours later, and we see Patriot of the Young Avengers being brutally taken down by SHIELD goons in a helicopter for \u201ctrying to stop a mugging.\u201d One wonders if the mugger was apprehended, or just the guy trying to stop him. Soon, the entire team is being loaded into a transport, but we see this being watched by Luke Cage and Daredevil via a monitor, and Luke says Cap & Falcon are there in disguise. I would like to know Luke\u2019s reaction to this Daredevil A) Not being Daredevil and B) Being Danny Rand, which is probably obvious to Luke. Did Danny tell him? We\u2019ll never know. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Wiccan is able to teleport the entire van to one of Nick Fury\u2019s 33 secret safehouses around the world, which\u2026 I\u2019m not sure how he could have sent them to a place he doesn\u2019t know, but that\u2019s the least of this series\u2019 worries. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Love all the exposition. These safehouses will be featuring prominently in the series Secret Warriors in a year or two. Weird Cable is there. I don\u2019t know if I believe anyone there would even know him. X-Men is such an insular world. Well, they may know him from when it looked like he assassinated Professor X that one time (Don\u2019t worry, it was his evil twin, Stryfe, and the professor didn\u2019t die).  Anyway, yeah, I think everybody better see this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Regardless of the relative merits of this storytelling decision, JJJ falling out of his chair is pretty good. Well, there it is. The biggest bombshell of this whole series, delivered in only issue 2. It makes you think even crazier things must be coming, but that\u2019s incorrect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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