Spoiler-Free Review of Tomorrow's Civil War #2 Hits Web

[Kefkataran]

Augie De Blieck Jr. over at Comic Book Resources (http://www.comicbookresources.com) has put up a spoiler-free review of what's sure to be this week's biggest comic, Civil War #2. The review is located in his weekly Pipeline column, and you can read it here (http://www.comicbookresources.com/columns/?column=6).

The news? This issues looking good:

I enjoyed CIVIL WAR #2 in part for the creepiness of seeing heroes turn on other heroes, but also for the sheer spectacle of how they do it. The big revelation of the book -- and there's actually more than one, but there's one big "mythos" moment that everyone will focus on -- is incomplete as of yet. I don't know if I buy it just yet, standing on its own as the big startling moment of the book. I want to know what's going on behind it -- not from a writer's standpoint, but from the character's point of view. Once I get that, I can judge whether this is a believable thing or not.

Oh, and to the political point of the story? It seems to be that the reader is not meant to side with Tony Stark and the registrants. Maybe it's handled more deftly in the tie-in titles I haven't read, but right now the registration side is clearly the more villainous of the two.

Joe Q and Marvel in general have been promising an earth-shattering event at the end of Civil War #2 for a while now, but after the House of M "crack the internet in half" fiasco, no one was sure if they'd deliver. Luckily it seems like they might. My lunch break tomorrow never seemed further away!

[Watership]

Joe Q and Marvel in general have been promising an earth-shattering event at the end of Civil War #2 for a while now, but after the House of M "crack the internet in half" fiasco, no one was sure if they'd deliver. Luckily it seems like they might. My lunch break tomorrow never seemed further away!

What do you mean by "Crack the internet in half"? I read House of M, but I haven't really been up on comic news. Did i miss something?

I really enjoyed Civil War #1. Looking forward to #2.

[Heretic Machine]

Tomarrow is such a good day for comics... Five things I'm wanting to read, two story arcs ending (Exiles World Tour, Sensational Spider-man Feral), one comic's last issue (Four #30), Civil War... I've been waiting for tomarrow since the end of last month (and that last issue of Amazing Spider-man).

[SexualChoc]

It does seem as if this will 'crack the internet', seeing as how people now have two sides from which to choose. Given the choice of 2 of Marvels biggest heroes, and seeing how other react to that, it's going to cause heated discussions.

[digitalErich]

What do you mean by "Crack the internet in half"? I read House of M, but I haven't really been up on comic news. Did i miss something?

I really enjoyed Civil War #1. Looking forward to #2.


Basically, Marvel talked up House of M and for many (most?) comics fans, House of M was a let down. The author of the review was basically being skecptical of the Marvel hype machine.

Anyway...is anyone else afraid that the "huge event" at the end of Civil War will actually have nothing to do with the SHRA and be some sort of event that will just shift 616 back to a pre-Civil War state? House of M has me worried that, for all the fanfare, the end of Civil War will be underwhelming. I do hope it ends well with some lasting (read 6 months given the comics industry) consequences.

[Kefkataran]

What do you mean by "Crack the internet in half"? I read House of M, but I haven't really been up on comic news. Did i miss something?

Digital's got most of it right, but this specifically refers to comments made by Bendis that the end of one of the issues would "crack the internet in half". That ending was the reveal that Hawkeye was alive in the House of M world. Extremely underwhelming, to say the least, and unimportant in the long run.

Anyway...is anyone else afraid that the "huge event" at the end of Civil War will actually have nothing to do with the SHRA and be some sort of event that will just shift 616 back to the way it was at the start of Civil War? House of M has me worried that, for all the fanfare, the end of Civil War will be underwhelming. I hope it ends well with some lasting (read 6 months given the comics industry) consequences.

According to the review, stuff changing as of issue #2 is stuff that's NOT going to be easy to switch back to how it was before, especially since Civil War doesn't seem to be taking a "cosmic" tilt at all. hopefully that's true.

[digitalErich]

According to the review, stuff changing as of issue #2 is stuff that's NOT going to be easy to switch back to how it was before, especially since Civil War doesn't seem to be taking a "cosmic" tilt at all. hopefully that's true.


I don't know...the relaunch of the Eternals is coming in July ; ) God, I hope they don't end Civil War like that...as much as I love the Crisis events in DC, I'd love to see a huge event not end in a cosmic or otherwise "comic-booky" reboot type deal.

[Kefkataran]

I don't know...the relaunch of the Eternals is coming in July ; ) God, I hope they don't end Civil War like that...as much as I love the Crisis events in DC, I'd love to see a huge event not end in a cosmic or otherwise "comic-booky" reboot type deal.

Heh. Well, Gaiman has said that Eternals is NOT strongly tied to any events going on. He said Civil War and other Marvel stuff will be in the background with nods to people reading it, but it's not going to tie in, so to speak.

[AspectVoid]

As long as they don't do a Superboy Punch! at the end, I'll be happy. Of course, having read a number of the tie-ins, I've got a pretty good feel for what at least one Big Event in Civil War 2 is, but hey, it'll still be cool reading it.

Oh, and I don't work on Wendsdays, so I can get my copy when the shop opens at 11 and then read it. Suck on that, Kef! :p

[Kefkataran]

I've got a pretty good feel for what at least one Big Event in Civil War 2 is, but hey, it'll still be cool reading it.

Come on, give us predictions. :p just spoiler-warn it.

Oh, and I don't work on Wendsdays, so I can get my copy when the shop opens at 11 and then read it. Suck on that, Kef!

If I was that concerned, I could go on break at 10:00 and get it in then. As it is, my lunch break's at 12, which is only an hour later than 11 (see?), so I'll be getting it close enough to when you do anyways.

[Deadend]

Kef, AspectVoid might be EST, which means TWO hours.

I have this stupid, horrible feeling that the Scarlet Witch is going to show up and say "no more civil war" then BAM! All over, except Spider-Man and Wolverine have more angest and Captain America does something or other.

[Kefkataran]

Kef, AspectVoid might be EST, which means TWO hours.

That's just as shrug-worthy.


I have this stupid, horrible feeling that the Scarlet Witch is going to show up and say "no more civil war" then BAM! All over, except Spider-Man and Wolverine have more angest and Captain America does something or other.

I'd really like to hope Millar is a better writer than that.