We deal with two different mediums here and I think that both are great in their ways. But the difference is between mainstream movie, 2,5 hour long, and multi-thousand pages comic book mega-arch. The initial excuse for the Registration Act is way more bloody, and also the politics of i, and preparations started years before by main players, are explained in detail. Piotrek: Comics are more serious than the movie. To make a really great cinematic story out of Civil War you’d need at least three movies, not that stump about Bucky and Tony Stark’s parents :P. However, the wild west fantasy these guys have been having, where they put on a mask and fight whoever they like just doesn’t cut it in the modern world.Īnd that’s a pretty good summary. They couldn’t survive without them in a world filled with super-villains and alien invasions. Mark Millar, asked to sum up the subject matter of his opus magnum, said:Ĭivil War is about what happens when the Marvel heroes are forced to grow up. Ola: Marvel Civil War spans over a hundred separate comics – from Spider-Man through Fantastic Four, Wolverine, Captain America and Iron Man or New Avengers to less-known titles, such as Deadpool and Cable or Thunderbolts.And of course, the big cross-over thing binding them all: 7-part Civil War.

Civil War was – and is – one of the biggest events in Marvel Universe, and that says something after over half a century of modern Marvel history and many epic, all-encompassing story arcs.

Civil War by Mark Millar