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A Girl's Eye View of Civil War: The Confession
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| Posted by: Jake Bell |
Thursday, March 15, 2007 8:40 PM |
Whoo-hoo, a new perspective on Civil War! Since we're privy to the perspective of every other person in the Marvel U--including freaking Howard the Duck--maybe it's time to get Iron Man's. Written by my favorite writer, Mr. Brian Michael Bendis, and drawn by Alex Maleev (*blank stare*), this book is all about Tony Stark crying and whining about the war he totally exacerbated.
Maleev's artwork seems to have improved, or maybe it's just his "new style" (i.e. practice), or maybe it's that the only girl in this book is a very small partial Sue Storm. In any case, the art is better than Daredevil, his previous book with Bendis. The writing reads like one big letter written at 3 AM to a high school ex right after a breakup. "I totally knew it wasn't going to work out, but I totally didn't give up on us, but it was totally meant to be this way I guess... I hope we can totally still be really good friends because I miss you so much... I totally never wanted to hurt you!" Imagine the tear stains in there somewhere. Somehow Tony Stark also managed to get King Arthur involved in all this. I'm still not sure how he correlated a zombie war with Dr. Doom and King Arthur with an upcoming hero vs. hero war, but he managed.
I actually did like this book for the sole purpose that it showed Cap's final "screw you" to Tony Stark. That's pretty much all that was missing from the Civil War wrap up. Although the wrap up isn't done yet, I'm sure. Oh, the other part of the book that was good was seeing Iron Man cry like a baby. For five panels. Two pages of Iron Man's delicious tears. They must smell like dead Christmas puppies.
I give this book three robot-face reflections out of five robot-face reflections. |
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