Y'know, i had never really thought very much about it before, but some story lines can epic on their own proportion line. The other day, i was talking to a guy on facebook, he had friended me because he thought it was cool to find another "legit comic fan". He mentioned about the Civil war series by marvel, stating them to be in his top group of favourite comics.
That got me thinking about he series...as a whole. Me, personally i've only ever read the one civil war volume. I don't know what number but it had the 198 in it and some government group got a guy named Johnny Dee who's mutant power was to take control of who ever he has a bit of DNA from by proscessing it through a squidlike mutant thung on his chest. That, and the fact that he took control of cyclops so he tried to kill bishop or something is about all i remember from it - to be fair to my memory i wasn't so impressed and it was a few years back anyway.
My instant reaction, artwork wasn't great. Yea, i know...i'm complaining about it when the title of the post is "the genius", not "the flaws". Maybe i'm just weird, or choosey even, but if the artwork in comics isn't up to scratch, is badly done or really crapp or even too cartoony for my likings i find the whole thing hard to read. Frankly it took me two shots at reading the civil war comic i mentioned above because the first thing i thought was that the drawings were definitly not the best...
It wasn't until last year, actually, that i read a little mini chapter about the civil war series, as a whole, which had been recomended to me by a little guy i meet in the library who loved marvel comics *and when i say little i don't mean younger, i just mean short* that i began to really get its brilliance.
Its a civil war, so sadly no one would be killing eachother but really... its intellegent form of writing.
Iron mans side who agreed to the government (who naturally started it all) that they would give in to the demands that all supers, mutants and "hero's" must give over their secret identities. Of course Tony Stark went along with that, he could get in with the government, he wouldn't loose anything... seemed like an ok idea. He's a billionare playboy, there isn't much he has to loose to an aspect. There's no one too close to him as to be a threat to their safety *exceot possibly that Pepper Potts or whatever her name is... i don't know frankly i have only ever read one iron man and seen the movies* and it would be pretty hard for someone to steal his money, which seems like the thing an intelegent "i hate iron man, take him down from the inside" so called badass would try when the government is on his side...or, well, its the government he's on their side.
But, wahp wahp, the good ol' cap, Captian America says no! NO way his he giving in to the government. The people close to him, and many other supers could suffer! This is pretty much the better story line idea as a whole to all the "secret identity" and "multiple life" saga that every generation since it bagan has known. Of course the supers can't tell that big, bad, anit-mutant/super government who they are! Feel free to imagine that last sentence in a mocking tone...so anyway, i don't think i need to explain the positives to siding agaist the "law".
So anyway, the government and iron man are rounding up all the supers who havn't agreed to proscess their identities into the gov. or whatever and finding out who they are, even though its against their will, as it is law for all supers to have the government in on who they are and personal crap.
There are the 198 mutants which have all moved off, i think bishop is with them...calliban, lorna dane? Vertigo? ATt least some chick with green hair... anyway, theres a whole bunch of them...like usual theres someone who is trying to wipe out the mutants...
Spiderman (I'm just going to say it while i have the chance having mentioned him... i have NEVER understood why the hell Peter Parker, A.K.A Spiderman, is so bloody famous. Radio active spider, yea thats ok. But seriously, as many times as i have tries to read his comics, even the ones with carnage, i have never liked spiderman. But anyway...back to the point...) sides with captian America *YAY CAP* but later falls off to the side of Iron man, who gives Peter a high tech spider suit. He uses it for a while but then pulls out and goes back to Cap.
The genius of this as whole:
This is a civil war... not a big ass kill you war, which may sound sad but actually was pretty clever. This is the same side, same people, many of whom have worked together for may a year, been drawn to life in the same pages for generations, desciding over a smallbig thing each with a diferent opinion.
To give into the government or not, that is the question. Do we tell them who we are, or go against it?
Once again, i have never really read that much on it. I won't tell yo what else happens, because frankly i don't know. But i would like to find out.
Civil war: a small stroke of genius in a big comic book world.
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