NEW LONGBOX: "I DON'T NEED YOUR CIVIL WAR!"

[mburbank]

Proto, that was excellent work. Great recap, and the picture captions were hillarious.

One of the most bizarre moments in the whole thing for me was Herc pounding the robo Thors head in. The visual was awesome, just a really great splash panel up there (I think) with some of the best moments in marvel history, but the lead in was surreal.

Herc paraphrases the immortal zinger from... a vice presidential debate from ovr twelve years ago. You know, the whole "I knew JFK, JFK was a frien of mine, you are no JFK.' That puts Thor in the Dan Quayle role, which is kind of funny, but it puts Herc in the Loyd Benson role. It's an irresistable line, but Herc quoting Loyd Benson? DELIGHTFULLY SURREAL, I SAY!!!


The other conceit I thought was absurd was the whole idea that registering meant automatically being drafted, and that no single hero said, well I won't register and I'll just stop doing vigalanty justice, and no hero said I'll obey the law and register, but I refuse to fight and you have to take me to court.

Also, I thought all the attempts to draw paralells between the Marvel Civil war and other historical conflicts were pretty stupid.

I liked Iron Man turning out to be a huge Dick, because a major part of his origin is that he's a military inudustrialist war profiteer. Which way back then nobody in the comic buying public thought was problematic, but to me it kind of means you suck.