Whatever, Merry Criss-mass to you too, Fish-face!Ĭap’s corpse is in custody and nobody’s gloating now.īottom Line: Read this for the Brubaker/Bendis stuff. He also shares some good old fashioned holiday cheer with Namor. The old Buckeroo spends Christmas Eve doing the frustrating adventures in babysitting thing with some kid Avengers… …complete with a fourth wall breaking panel.

The guys get to talk (and talk and talk), try to bust each other’s domes when the writer runs out of dialogue to write, and take a trip down memory lane…

How many times do Captain America and Iron Man confront one another during this cross over? I lost count after 137, but here’s another one that happened in secret. Iron Man/Captain America – Casualties of War …and Stark is stalked by an angry Sue Richards, the Invisible Woman. Tony Stark waffles on his stance on the SHRA …and Bucky busts some skulls for a higher purpose.Ĭaptain America’s enemies plans continue unabated. The Buckminster and Nick Fury are up to no good as they try to infiltrate SHIELD headquarters… Get ready for some SHRA pillow talk, kids.

A conflicted Agent Carter has her work/home boundaries blurred as she walks a thin line between her duties at SHIELD and her relationship with Captain America. Iron Man and his POV comes across more effectively elsewhere in this crossover event.Ĭaptain America: Burbaker plays it smart by focusing his Civil War run on characters other than Captain America. In comparison, the Iron Man stuff, penned by Christos Gage, just doesn’t measure up. Brubaker was in the middle of his stellar run on Captain America and didn’t let a crossover event slow down his momentum or alter the quality of the titles he was responsible for.

The problem here is that, artistically, the issues penned by Brubaker and Bendis outshine the rest. Iron Man (Tony Stark) becomes the spokesman for the pro-registration side, while Captain America (Steve Rogers) leads a group of super heroes who have gone underground. As a way to market the book in the wake of the Civil War movie, it makes sense – Captain America and Iron Man, the faces and rallying points of the event, are at polar opposites on the Superhuman Registration Act (SHRA) – anyone who has super abilities has to not only register themselves with the government, but give up their secret identities. Marvel has taken what was originally published as two separate volumes ( Civil War: Iron Man) and ( Civil War: Captain America) and smooshed them together into a single book.

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