I haven’t read Marvel’s Civil War, so I suppose I can’t make extremely qualified judgments on its inherent pros and cons, but it seemed to me it was just another case of one of the Big Two grabbing for my wallet and me snatching it away and quickly yelling “MINE!” That would be the principal reason I didn’t start shelling out for the two hundred or so component issues in the Maxi-Crossover-Extravaganza™, anyway. These days, I hear tell that it’s actually quite interesting and well-done (or at least not execrable), but it’s still, like, two hundred issues long, so I’m not going to sit down to a nice mug of cocoa with it.

However, I will read, thanks to a heads-up from my friend Nick, the completely rewritten Civil War miniseries, NOW WITH ENHANCED DIALOGUE!

In all seriousness, I may not know how good the scripting was in these issues when they hit the newstands, but I know it’s better now. It just has to be.