Title:
Civil War, Civil War Frontline, Civil War(Various Issues)Content Rating:
The main storyline - Civil War - is rated teen plus. The other storylines range from all ages to mature audiences.Summary:
Civil War:Civil war follows the exploits of the superhuman registration act. When the youthful superhero group, “The New Warriors,” try to apprehend a group of super villains, their plans go awry when Nitro, a villain with the ability to detonate himself, lets loose such a powerful blast that he kills many of the young heroes and over 600 innocent civilians in the city of Stamford, Connecticut. This prompts the government to start the superhuman registration act a bill that will force superhuman beings to register with the government and become paid employees as operatives of S.H.I.E.L.D.
Many heroes are quick to embrace the act, including Spider-Man, Reed Richards, She-Hulk, Warbird, Wasp, and Iron Man, who becomes the leader of the supporters. Captain America, Cable, many of the X-Men, Nick Fury, Luke Cage and others oppose this act and form a group of heroes that are willing to fight to preserve their freedoms.
The government uses those heroes that are for the registration act to become enforcers and use them to hunt down other heroes that refuse to register with the government. This forces Captain America and his renegades to go underground in direct opposition to many of their former friends. The two groups have continued to come into conflict and have begun to amass armies for both sides.
The series promises to change the Marvel universe forever with deaths on both sides of the registration act. This series is a crossover event with many of the main Marvel titles adding to the overall story. There will be 74 comics in the series, which include the 7 issues of the main series and all of the other titles in the series.
Civil War: Frontline
The focus of Civil War: Frontline is mostly on the stories of two reporters, Ben Urich and Sally Floyd. The spin of Urich’s articles is for the registration act and its heroes and the spin of Floyd’s articles are against the registration act and its heroes. Another main point of the series has been on Speedball, the only person to survive the explosion from Nitro. Speedball is powerless and has been sent to jail for what happened in Stamford.
Civil War(Various Issues):
The various issues that tie into the Civil War storyline tell their own dealings with the superhuman registration act. Wolverine has been tracking down Nitro, the Avengers have fractured into splinter groups that support and reject the act, Spider-Man is dealing with his longtime enemies that now know his secret identity and therefore the identity of his loved ones, Deadpool had become a villain bounty hunter, and The X-Men struggle to protect mutants that are being housed on the estate like a reservation. The various issues help tell the larger story of what each hero is thinking and feeling about the war.
Publisher:
Marvel ComicsMajor Plot Lines: (Spoilers)
The Major Plot Lines of Civil War are now housed on their own page. Be warned, there are spoilers.Writers and Artist Associated With the Title:
Mark MillarSteve McNiven
Brian Michael Bendis
Paul Jenkins
Fabian Nicieza
Peter David
Howard Chaykin
Marc Guggenheim
Civil War Checklist:
- Amazing Spider-Man #532-538- Black Panther #18, 23-25
- Blade #5
- Cable/Deadpool #30-32
- Captain America #22-24
- Civil War #1-7
- Civil War: Battle Damage Report
- Civil War: Choosing Sides
- Civil War Files
- Civil War: Front Line #1-10
- Civil War: War Crimes
- Fantastic Four #538-543
- Heroes for Hire volume 2 #1-3
- Iron Man v4 #13-14
- Iron Man/Captain America Special
- Marvel Spotlight #6: Millar/McNiven
- Moon Knight #7-8, 10
- Ms. Marvel #6-8
- New Avengers #21-25
- Punisher War Journal volume 2 #1-3
- She-Hulk v2 #8
- Thunderbolts #103-105
- Winter Solider: Winter Kills
- Wolverine #42-47
- X-Factor #8-9
- X-Men: Civil War #1-4
- Young Avengers/Runaways: Civil War #1-4
