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

[Zomboid]

No, it's not all that different, but it seemed like the build-up actually amounted to SOMETHING. There was one hell of a last fight and it didn't just suddenly end with superboy prime realizing he's really just a big asshole. The whole time you got the sense that everything was at stake while civil war was pretty tame by comparison.

One of the things that I think infinite crisis had better was that it had some true villains. Civil war kind of just makes you realize what a douchebag iron man is. Also, superboy prime killing all of those teen titans and green lanterns is a lot cooler than robo-thor killing BLACK GOLIATH.

Some of the tie-in comics were cool though. Thunderbolts and cable and deadpool were pretty entertaining.

Did you ever do anything with those Batman Vs Alien comics I sent you over aim? :O

[Protoclown]

Yeah, the lack of real villains in Civil War was kind of dumb. I mean, okay, you had the Thunderbolts (which was a STUPID idea for them to be recruited like that anyway), but where was Dr. Doom? Or Red Skull? Or Magneto (or is he dead again...I can never remember)? Or any number of other major Marvel villains who would have had a FIELD DAY taking advantage of all the chaos caused by the villains fighting one another.

But no. Not so much as a fucking peep. I mean, we saw a couple street thugs and D-list Spider-Man villains "taking advantage" of the situation in the lamest way possible, but it's like the Marvel editors just completely and willfully overlooked most of their villains during the whole event.

As for the Batman/Alien comics, no, I haven't done anything yet, but you better believe that I will...I was thinking of doing a Longbox column on them someday, but they might just make for a good next Protocomic instead.