Marvel Civil War (well, part of it)
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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.
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.
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Date: 2012-11-10 10:54 pm (UTC)Um. Overall, I'm not sure whether you're enjoying it or not.
I know it was a big Event, but I wasn't aware that it was still echoing through the Marvel universe(s). I tend to look at it like 1602. But then, I tend not to read on-going things that are tied into the main continuities.
Youngbloods were in at the start of Civil War; I just assumed they'd been made up for that storyline. Guess not.
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Date: 2012-11-21 02:16 pm (UTC)Overall, I really enjoy the Young Avengers/Runaways book but I didn't enjoy the X-Men book as much. I need to write that one up. Young Avengers has a couple of their own books, but they're out of print. I've found them on Comixology, though, so I'll probably be grabbing them soon because I really enjoyed those characters. Apparently there's going to be a new series for them starting next year as well, which I'm more excited for than I expected.
Going through and trying to find out backstory on a lot of characters, at least within the last ten years, the discussion and commentary references the Civil War and aftermath a lot. I figured that if it's something so many people still discuss then it's probably something I should know about first-hand. This is probably false logic, but it's also my reason for having House of M sitting on my coffee table and reading X-Men: Dark Phoenix a few months ago.
Basically I seem to be taking a crash course on important Marvel history to put everything into context :-D It's interesting and is making some of the odd off-hand references I see in various books make more sense.