Alright so as usual spoilers ahead, this post concerns the events between Civil War 6 and 7, but mostly just Civil War 7.

First off Speedball buys into the idea that he “caused” the explosion and not Nitro, and becomes Penance vowing to suffer for each and every person “he killed” when Nitro exploded. In the same issue there is a hinted solution of some reporters finding out who/what caused Civil War, or some hidden motive behind it. Hey could it be that little thing Wolverine discovered in Wolverine #46! 47 fucking comics ago! That is followed by some Spiderman and Punisher bullshit that doesn’t matter, even a Blade comic! Then we have Civil War The Return, which was somewhat interesting, but at this point that pretty much blew me away. It explains Captain Marvel‘s return to the future, given the knowledge of his own doom to cancer (his arch nemesis) in the past. There is also a Sentry comic that is basically just ten pages of telling me how powerful he is. Most interestingly though is that both of these characters are on Iron Man’s side, pretty exciting right! With Thor, Captain Marvel, and The Sentry, Captain America has his work cut out for him.

In Fantastic Four we discover that Reed Richards, getting the idea from an Asimov book, has developed some magical future predicting math. In truth Richards doesn’t like the registration act at all, but if it doesn’t happen the world will basically end. He claims to have tried countless scenarios, with only one enabling the survival of the human race. This seems like some pretty important information to me. I mean you could like tell everybody that. That would probably work a lot better. But I guess you could argue that would change the outcome, do you think he plugged in that scenario? But if telling everyone would be a bad idea, then why is he telling this all to the Mad Thinker, a super villain who apparently can nearly match his own intelligence!? That seems like a bad idea to me, actually he probably knows it’s OK cause he already math-predicted the outcome of telling him. Anyway Susan overhears, you would think being married to a person who can turn invisible you would learn, and gets all in his face, saying that they have beaten the odds before. Then he smacker her in the face and yelled “Bitch! I predicted the fucking future with math!” except then he didn’t do that and the comic ended.

Really most of the action happens in Civil War #7 where we finally get the big battle promised from the beginning. And it happens… we see a few punches, an energy beam or two, but really other than one really awesome face stomp it’s a pretty bland fight.

Oh man, just look at the Captain’s face! He isn’t just stomping Bishop’s face into the ground. He is destroying this man, he is no longer Bishop, he is nothing, he no longer exists, only Captain America, and his disappointment. (pretty sure this is Bishop, right?)

Anyway I am a little confused about this battle because I just finished reading Civil War The Return, in which I was repeatedly told how powerful Sentry is and how he could single-handedly win this battle. But where is he we barely even see him?

Yep that’s it Sentry getting double-handedly punched in the face by Hercules and Hulkling. I didn’t know before this comic but it turns out that Hercules is a total badass. Not only did he apparently beat The Sentry in one punch but he also smashes/kills (robot)Thor by himself.

Also where is Captain Marvel during all of this? I would think he would be someone to watch out for.

Oh! There he is, and he looks pissed. This should get pretty interesting. The fight is on now!

Actually no, I guess he just flies at them angrily and then… I don’t know, flies away? This is the only time you see him in the entire comic! Just flyin into battle.

Anyway the big fight ends when a group of New York civilians tackle Captain America. I cannot express how stupid that is. Some random New Yorkers just jump into the fray and tackle Captain fucking America from behind. Anyway this forces him to see all the destruction they caused while fighting. Captain America starts blubberin and turns himself in, stating how he was wrong. And I guess after that everything is just A-OK! Everyone is happy and its all a success. What about the S.H.I.E.L.D. squads hunting down renegades and KILLING THEM? Or Tony Stark employing known MURDERERS and PSYCHOPATHS? Or the concentration camp in the Negative Zone where there is a possibility of DYING INSTANTLY by just being there? Oh, and why is Captain America in regular old fashioned bars-on-the-walls prison and not the Negative Zone? I am assuming all of these things will be addressed in later issues, but seriously there is no unrest? No one cares?

Well anyway there should only be one more of these left to do, maybe a final thoughts one also.