Marvel Civil War (well, part of it)

Someone *cough*sugoll*cough* indicated that there might be some interest in hearing about my attempt to read all the Civil War books. So here you go.

I've learned about the broad outline of the Civil War event that Marvel did so it's not too difficult for me to read whatever I can get from the library in any order. Part of me doesn't want to read it (because ow) and another part of me needs to read it because it's such a big part of the back-story in a lot of Marvel lines. So I'm grabbing everything from the library, girding my loins and plunging in.

Currently I'm reading a massive book that seems to combine the trades issues as Civil War: X-Men Universe, Civil War: Wolverine and Civil War: X-Men so I'll talk about those later. I've also got another huge book that collects all the different Avengers issues to read when I'm done with that.

The first thing to arrive from the library, though, was this little number:

Civil War: Young Avengers and Runaways
I hadn't read anything about any of these characters before so the little precis on each one and their history at the beginning was very useful! I'd heard people discussing Teddy and Billy so I knew a little about them. I've also been reading the new Hawkeye series so I'd met Kate Bishop.

The book is mostly working on the outskirts of the main Civil War storyline, showing just how ugly it got when it extended to the younger superheroes. It didn't pull many punches and the villain of the piece wasn't just evil, he was downright creepy.

It didn't seem to be a book that was crucial to the main Civil War storyline but I did finish it itching to read more Young Avengers books.