One of the big problems with the Civil War is that it's simply poorly written. You can tell that some of the authors either didn't agree with or didn't know about certain aspects of the plot.
Something that I didn't see AIRT mention is that in at least SOME of the books, all powered individuals are REQUIRED to work for the government. Like, there's a teenage girl who stops a robbery and she's suddenly drafted to work the government, despite being a freaking teenager and completely untrained. And in these books, it's said (multiple times) that anyone powered at all, regardless of whether or not they ever want to try to stop crime, has to work for the government. But other books ignore this plot point. It's really frustrating.
Personally what really annoys me is that this could have been an amazing storyline, and instead, you have the Pro-Reg side doing cartoonishly villainous things (like putting their friends and fellow heroes in a prison that's driving people literally crazy, all without a trial or any legal consultation, or cloning a dead friend and then doing brain surgery on him when he doesn't work right) and the Anti-Reg side focusing way too much on personal loyalty towards Cap instead of any sort of actual protest against the law. Most of them just... stop protesting when Cap dies, which doesn't make much sense. There was also a lot of detective work going on about who was really responsible for the initial massacre, and it never really led anywhere or had any impact on the future storyline - I think it was all ignored in favor of Skrulls.
I haaaate Civil War, and can rant about it for a long time. It (combined w/DC's Infinite Crisis event a few months before) got me to stop reading comics for like 8 years. I only recently got back in to them.
Re: Civil War Query?
One of the big problems with the Civil War is that it's simply poorly written. You can tell that some of the authors either didn't agree with or didn't know about certain aspects of the plot.
Something that I didn't see AIRT mention is that in at least SOME of the books, all powered individuals are REQUIRED to work for the government. Like, there's a teenage girl who stops a robbery and she's suddenly drafted to work the government, despite being a freaking teenager and completely untrained. And in these books, it's said (multiple times) that anyone powered at all, regardless of whether or not they ever want to try to stop crime, has to work for the government. But other books ignore this plot point. It's really frustrating.
Personally what really annoys me is that this could have been an amazing storyline, and instead, you have the Pro-Reg side doing cartoonishly villainous things (like putting their friends and fellow heroes in a prison that's driving people literally crazy, all without a trial or any legal consultation, or cloning a dead friend and then doing brain surgery on him when he doesn't work right) and the Anti-Reg side focusing way too much on personal loyalty towards Cap instead of any sort of actual protest against the law. Most of them just... stop protesting when Cap dies, which doesn't make much sense. There was also a lot of detective work going on about who was really responsible for the initial massacre, and it never really led anywhere or had any impact on the future storyline - I think it was all ignored in favor of Skrulls.
I haaaate Civil War, and can rant about it for a long time. It (combined w/DC's Infinite Crisis event a few months before) got me to stop reading comics for like 8 years. I only recently got back in to them.