Okay so I am gonna do this is shorter bursts, partly so I can put a lot more detail in shorter posts, but mostly because I have significantly slowed down in my reading. This post covers everything between Civil War 3 and 4. Same deal as as last time: there will be spoilers.
The Civil War storyline got repetitive almost immediately, with every issue featuring different characters constantly arguing the same points. However, Each storyline varies so much from the other it is impossible to tell what is actually going on. Where in Ms Marvel and Amazing Spider-man captured combatants are taken care of and given proper training to become better superheros. And then we have Civil War Frontline and Young Avengers where S.H.I.E.L.D. is the ultimate evil. It goes from Iron Man overseeing the training of teenage Araña in a giant playground gymnasium to a computer determining public sentiment for ripping apart an underage cyborg. Basically some writers want to beat you over the head with how “evil” this registration is, while others show it as a benevolent improvement, all at the cost of any consistency in the story and the already inexplicable character motivation.
One thing that has managed to stay consistent through the comics is the completely emotionless arguments between characters. Iron Man and Captain America constantly argue the same points over and over again. Iron Man says that registration is good because it is the law and we have to follow the law. Captain America says it is bad because Hitler… But really the Captain America side has some good arguments about unfair laws and profiling, while the pro registration side can only say “It’s the law.” This makes the arguments seem really one sided as if Marvel has already decided who is right and who is wrong rather than providing any actual conflict between characters.
Let me tell you about a much better comic called The Boys. The Boys follows a special task force of non-powered agents who keep all the super-hero super-groups in line. The comic constantly discusses very good points that could easily be brought up in Civil War. For example:
1. Most superheroes have no formal military or police training, and thus have no real knowledge of how to deal with combat situations.
2. Super heroes have no one to answer to and thus are not really held accountable for their actions.
3. Generally superheroes do not have a concept of collateral damage
4. Very rarely will any situation be easily solved with brute force alone
These are all very important issues in a literal translation of a world involving superheroes, I think the Marvel writers aren’t really trying very hard to make a gray area. It is pretty obvious at this point that in their view Captain America is right and Iron man is wrong. (Also The Boys isn’t actually that good, but it is better than this!)
The Civil War comics themselves are actually fairly good, the most noticeable difference is the art which isn’t absolutely terrible as in a lot of the other series, but also these issues are much better at telling the story than all the tie-ins, in fact if I hadn’t made this horrible commitment I would probably just read Civil War 1-7 and be done with it. Anyway plot time!
So basically Captain America gets a distress signal that a chemical lab is burning down and he brings his whole team to go stop it. That’s right his whole underground team of superheros on the run go out in full uniform to stop a fire. Oh no! It was a trap Iron Man is there with his whole team, plus the S.H.I.E.L.D. Helicarrier for backup. Well gosh that was pretty dumb. Anyway Captain America has got Cable on his team so you know this should really be no contest, and then all the sudden Thor. That’s right Thor is on Iron Man’s team. Well, the end. End of Civil War.
That is how issue 3 ends (probably how the whole series should also.) Now I have to suffer through a gauntlet of bad just to find out how badly Thor destroys everyone. We jump right into X-men, X-factor, and Cable & Deadpool. Which were all actually not bad, except that they had almost nothing to do with Civil War. Each issue kind of mentioned it, I guess, and the characters are doing stuff in reaction to the Civil War, or at least briefly stating their feelings about it. But they don’t really effect it. (I am slowly discovering that pretty much every tie-in issue is like this.) The comics themselves are pretty unreadable because they are constantly referencing past issues, which is more of a Marvel problem overall, but really I have no idea what any of the characters are talking about until one mentions the Civil War, to which all of these characters are ultimately secondary.
Then we jump to New Avengers, and its an issue dedicated to Luke Cage, alright, hey this is actually good awesome. Holy shit! Another good comic! Right after we get Black Panther. Okay this actually isn’t that good of a comic, but how could I deny the awesomeness of a giant floating whale god!
The Wolverine comics seem to completely break every other characters motivation. Wolverine is on a quest to go kill Nitro, and every single person he meets on the way, good or bad. Wouldn’t this seem like a good example for registration? Well actually he is completely supported by Iron Man, who lets him go find Nitro alone! and kill as many people as he wants. That plus these comics look like absolute shit. I mean I understand what they are doing comparing Wolverine to a wild animal and all, but really its been way overdone, we understand. And yet here he is: a shaved gorilla.

This is worse than Liefeld
The absolute worst comics I have read in Civil War are the Young Avengers & Runaways. The majority of the comics I have read so far are just painfully boring and repetitive, these are the first ones that I actually consider bad, terrible, NICKELBACK! That’s kinda harsh, but still it was pretty difficult to read these. Young Avengers & Runaways follows two groups of super-hero teeny boppers trying to make it in a world of adult super-heroes, who are totally unfair and I will never treat my children this way! I am not saying that young super-groups are inherently bad… Teen Titans is pretty good… sometimes… and there is… Anyway reading this comic gives you the same emotions as listening to a twelve year old tell you how hard a life they have had, and if that isn’t enough you have to actually look at the art in the comic. The colors and shapes and shit aren’t that bad, it is all in the facial expressions. These characters make the most ridiculous faces. I don’t think I can accurately describe the horror of the facial expressions in this comic so I made a sweet collage
You can say that these are taken out of context except even in the comic they aren’t really in context, other than the angry faces pretty much all of these faces aren’t at all related to what is going on in the panels.
Yay! Now to Civil War 4! As promised there is an awesome rampage where Thor destroys everyone. And then shocker Thor fucking kills Goliath. Goliath is dead! He probably should have just stuck to making porn with the biggest penis known to man. Anyway the Invisible Woman protects everyone so Captain America has a chance to escape.
Goliath’s death deeply effects everyone except for everyone, and the Invisible Woman joins the anti-registration renegades. The comic ends on Iron Man’s brilliant idea to use psychotic villains to hunt down Captain America and his underground team. There goes any possibility for a two sided battle, It is now Captain America versus evil Iron Man and his army of villains.
There were a few more, but really they were not that interesting, everything was just OK, Thunderbolts was a little above average but I will never be satisfied until I see Joystick’s genitals.

I can see everything!