I'm with Jake on this one. Hey Cap! About face soldier! Apparently war has never affected innocents ever before. God forbid your quest for the personal freedoms that should be an inallienable right for all people in this country affect anybody else.
Oh well. You all know how I feel about Mark Millar and his endings. Good idea. Great art. Poor execution.
Also, who has the most to lose by going public? Spider-man. What does he do? Go public. What happens? His aunt gets shot. Who didn't see that coming? Seriously, dubya tee ef mates? Don't get me started on the black costume, which happened (past tense) to be my favorite costume. Sooo... let me get this straight, since he went rogue (although he's already registered) he decided that he should take on his former costume and current costume of one of his greatest enemies? Didn't this turn out poorly for you last time? Is this 'stealth spidey,' 'angst spidey,' or is it 'Spider-man 3-is-coming-out-and-we-need-to-market spidey?'
Pretty Predictable Ending. It's no Infinite Crisis.
but I do have one thing to say about it.
IMPERIUS REX!!!!!!!!!
I don't care about cap or iron man but what happens when Reed finds out what Sue has been up to? What happens in Atlantis stays in Atlantis baby.
Instead of nit picking, why not look at the broad strokes? Civil War DID change Marvel, which is more that I can say for Infinite Crisis. This is the worst part of being a comic fan, you piss and moan with each issue but you still read it to the end, and you'll still keep reading more related books... and piss and moan some more, then keep reading. You're either gluttons for punishment or you're actually enjoying the reaction the book is giving you, good or bad.
Overall I liked it. It's not perfect. No book is if you want to pick it apart. And the ending was dead on for what Marvel said all along. Civil War will change the face of Marvel for years to come. I wouldn't call that ending predictable, the predictable (and boring) ending was the one everyone was hoping for, with Cap winning. Then we could go back to the same old same old... kind of like DC right now...wow, the return of the multiverse. Nothing like taking a few hundred steps backward...
I don't hate any comics. It just gets a little old with the whole Marvel sucks DC rules blah blah blah. Just wanted to point out, if I wanted to waste some time I could find several things wrong in DC or nit pick their stories apart just as easy as the bad rap Marvel always gets. But I will say this. Marvel, for all it's faults, is still the #1 publisher today... tells me they're doing something right.
DC makes mistakes as well, heck the entire Infinite Crisis series was a way of explaining them!!
Bottom line, enjoy comics. They're freaking comics!! If you want "perfection" you're never going to be happy.