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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RustyHalo" data-source="post: 2823131" data-attributes="member: 21528">Although I'm more of a DC fan, I must admit that Marvel's Civil War project has me intrigued. I heard Quesada & Millar interviewed on public radio about the storyline, and they didn't reveal many spoilers. They made a convincing case for how comics, at their best, often mirror larger social dilemmas. I'd add that much of so-called "speculative fiction" (e.g., science fiction) has simliar aspirations. Civil War is exploring the tensions inherent in trying to protect both liberty and security, and doing so within a fictional milieu that includes superhumans.Of course, Quesada and Millar know who butters their toast. Civil War is a mass-market product. By design (they said as much), it's unlikely to offend either end of the political spectrum. Some people would fault it for that very reason alone -- as simple-minded and simplistic "mush." I would recognize it for what it is: a comic book geared to sell several hundred thousand copies. Knowing what it is, I can still choose to enjoy it (I plan to buy the trade paperback that will collect the entire miniseries).As for others in this thread who have pointed out that Captain America going rogue has been done before -- that Marvel has "been there, done that" -- I politely submit that they miss the point. Fiction has always "been there, done that!" Pundits have long noted that, stripped to their bare bones, in ALL of fiction and myth there's only about three stories that ever get told! It's the storyteller and the "little" differences that make a story worth reading or watching or hearing or believing. One could choose to fault Civil War for bad storytelling, but one ought not fault it for re-telling a story that already been told. Every story has been told before.One caller near the end of the radio show -- a diehard comic fanboy -- noted that Marvel had a storyline in the McCarthy red-baiting era that treated similar themes: national security vs. personal liberty.I look forward to reading Civil War.</blockquote>

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