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scans_dailyOnce again, I'm posting some pages from CIVIL WAR. In this case, pages from J. Michael Straczynski and Ron Garney's AMAZING SPIDER-MAN run.
Why did Spider-Man decide to unmask during CIVIL WAR? After the cut, seven and a half pages from AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #532 explain it. Sort of.
Tony and Peter go to the White House. Peter waits outside the Oval Office and acts like an idiot. Tony exits the Oval Office.
"But I had nothing to do with what happened in Stanford." Peter is rather foolish to say that. Spider-Man gets blamed for lots of things because of the Daily Bugle. (Because J. Jonah Jameson is a stand-in for William Randolph Hearst or something.) Also, Peter blames himself for things he shouldn't, because Uncle Ben dying was more Peter's fault than the fault of the Burglar. (Because that's how superhero comics work.)
Tony goes on about how as long as the superheroes are masked, they are all "bad guys." There's also some talk about "aiding and abetting" and other stuff. Nothing about cloning Thor into a rampaging murder-bot, superhero conscription or building a Negative Zone prison that Blastar can take over.
There wasn't a "real world" comparison in CIVIL WAR. Not the American Civil War and not in the War on Terror that I could see. It edged into 1950s Sci-Fi "Humans have wars because that's what humans do" territory. Luke Cage brought up Jim Crow laws, which could have been interesting: superheroes become tools of the state and can't do anything abut it because... reasons.
Peter takes Tony's plane home and thinks about fleeing the country. He explains the situation to Aunt May and Mary Jane.
"Go get 'em, Tiger."
Four days later, after other stuff in CIVIL WAR #1 and #2 happens, Peter decides he just can't do it.
CIVIL WAR could have been done better. Not splitting the characters between rich and poor. Captain America finding a better plan than armed conflict against his government. No Thor clone.
I posted the CIVIL WAR #2 pages last year. So, here is the parody by Christopher Bird, where Spider-Man is more in-character than the original story.
Why did Spider-Man decide to unmask during CIVIL WAR? After the cut, seven and a half pages from AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #532 explain it. Sort of.
Tony and Peter go to the White House. Peter waits outside the Oval Office and acts like an idiot. Tony exits the Oval Office.
"But I had nothing to do with what happened in Stanford." Peter is rather foolish to say that. Spider-Man gets blamed for lots of things because of the Daily Bugle. (Because J. Jonah Jameson is a stand-in for William Randolph Hearst or something.) Also, Peter blames himself for things he shouldn't, because Uncle Ben dying was more Peter's fault than the fault of the Burglar. (Because that's how superhero comics work.)
Tony goes on about how as long as the superheroes are masked, they are all "bad guys." There's also some talk about "aiding and abetting" and other stuff. Nothing about cloning Thor into a rampaging murder-bot, superhero conscription or building a Negative Zone prison that Blastar can take over.
There wasn't a "real world" comparison in CIVIL WAR. Not the American Civil War and not in the War on Terror that I could see. It edged into 1950s Sci-Fi "Humans have wars because that's what humans do" territory. Luke Cage brought up Jim Crow laws, which could have been interesting: superheroes become tools of the state and can't do anything abut it because... reasons.
Peter takes Tony's plane home and thinks about fleeing the country. He explains the situation to Aunt May and Mary Jane.
"Go get 'em, Tiger."
Four days later, after other stuff in CIVIL WAR #1 and #2 happens, Peter decides he just can't do it.
CIVIL WAR could have been done better. Not splitting the characters between rich and poor. Captain America finding a better plan than armed conflict against his government. No Thor clone.
I posted the CIVIL WAR #2 pages last year. So, here is the parody by Christopher Bird, where Spider-Man is more in-character than the original story.
