If you’re a geek you would have at least heard a whisper about Marvel’s blockbuster crossover, CIVIL WAR. Now this might not be henshin but at a time when epic stories are coming to their close, I think Marvel’s excellent job at a truely world changing crossover deserves some recognition.
I remember I was pretty heavy into Marvel, DC and Image back in the 90’s. Every year some event would hit that would promise “to change everything!” And by the end of the arc, everything was reset back to the status quo and nothing had changed. Maybe someone would get a new suit, or a new character would be introduced, or even someone might die but by the end of it all… none of that would last. The hero would get his old suit back, the new character would be killed if he wasn’t that popular and that dude who got killed would inevitiably come back. But this… there are things that took place in Civil War you can’t take back and truely one of the most established comic book worlds has been turned on its ear. Click in to MegaRanger’s Talkback to see the final fallout and the final fate of Earth’s Heroes.
Thanks, MegaRanger!
February 21, 2007 @ 6:38 pm
I do what I can.
February 22, 2007 @ 2:22 am
The ending lacked a lot of punch, and quite frankly Marvel’s emosexual storytelling has been outmatched by DC’s lighter, back to basics fun approach. Still, the ending of Cival War took balls, and neither side truley won in one way. Prepare for “World War Hulk” people.
February 25, 2007 @ 7:30 pm
A total insult to the house that Jack Kirby built. I’m tired of these big, bloated, gore filled events where the heroes act like OOC jerks to each other as writers pat themselves on the back for being “relevant” to the “post 911 world”.