Garrett's Reviews > Civil War

Did not really care for this. I read a good chunk of Civil War when it was the currency of the Marvel Universe, when it was the big thing, the big crossover event - but that was a long time ago. I don't remember it like this. Some of the events have been re-shuffled to make this work as a prose novel, and that's irritating, not just because it's inconsistent with memory, but because it often doesn't work quite as well or makes less sense. Additionally, the illustrations seem to be simply stripped out of the original work, and sometimes either do not match the action, or give points away before they happen. Finally, everyone seems to be a more hyper-intensified version of themselves; a confident person is now arrogant, while an arrogant one is intolerable. Strident, shrill, shrewish, maudlin, irritating, indecisive, bullying - everyone seems to have been ramped up into the most annoying version of themselves. And these, it's important to remember, are comic book characters - technicolor characters to begin with. Not so good.