Augie De Blieck, Jr. has read Civil War #7, and… well, read for yourself:
CIVIL WAR ends not so much with a bang, but with a whimper… [T]he seventh issue is set up to be a nearly impossible task – wrap it all up, make it make sense, and make the readers happy that they’ve slogged through dozens of comics for the past 10 months or so to get here. Failing that, at least provide a new status quo that they might enjoy.
The good news is that I think the new status quo is an interesting one. Millar spends the last pages of this issue in a denouement rife with plot exposition to explain how things now are. I just don’t think the way we all got to it was all that exciting or entertaining. It built to a fever pitch, pulled the rug out from under our feet, and then asked us to accept a wildly different status quo. I’ll accept it in the end because I think it’s an interesting idea and because I don’t think cutting out all Marvel comics from my reading material would make me a happier person. But I think the road there was far too rough.
Consider that Augie has enjoyed the series up until now, and then see if you’re as curious to see the reaction of Marvel fans over the next week as I am…
February 20th, 2007 at 12:23 pm
Interesting. Augie usually has nothing but praise for Marvel books, so to see him conflicted on it is surprising…
February 20th, 2007 at 1:32 pm
If you want to know how it ends then SD has the spoiler.
Go to the bottom and highlight the text to read.
http://community.livejournal.com/scans_daily/3059337.html#cutid2
Enjoy the lameness.
February 20th, 2007 at 1:54 pm
Assuming that IS the actual ending and not something just made up for the Internets, it’s not as bad as I thought. But not as good, either. Although it would have been ballsy and daring to flat-out kill Cap and make him a martyr, the idea of him being stuck in the superhero Gitmo is actually much more heartbreaking.
But I’m waiting to see who actually DIES here. No mention of MJ’s or Aunt May’s fate, or if any other hero falls.
February 20th, 2007 at 2:47 pm
neither MJ nor Aunt May die in ASM 539..just shot – but not die
February 20th, 2007 at 2:49 pm
Martin, dude. You realize you just spoiled the ending to a comic series I’ve been following for 10 months now, right?
February 20th, 2007 at 3:08 pm
Gah! This is not my day for comments, it seems. Still, I’ve been reading it for 10 months myself, so it’s not like I’m any less spoiled than you.
And “justme” up there added the coup de grace.
February 20th, 2007 at 3:55 pm
Wow, if that’s the ending, it’s lamer then I thought possible. What happened to Mark Millar?
February 21st, 2007 at 1:07 am
Wow, what a let down. Viva Captain France…I mean Captain America.
February 21st, 2007 at 9:31 am
What happens in spiderman was spoiled my Marvel on their website 2 weeks ago!
Check out SENSATIONAL SPIDER-MAN ANNUAL #1
http://www.marvel.com/news/comicstories.511?utm_campaign=front+page+tracking&utm_source=main+graphic&utm_medium=big+graphic+link&utm_content=%2Fnews%2Fcomicstories.511