Me too. The only thing I read that comes from Marvel are the MAX Punisher comic books that are so far better than the civil war Punisher that it’s not even funny.

Anything else from Marvel that I’m reading was written years ago.

To make this story “work” (to the extent it does, anyway), one has to ignore decades of the citizenry in the MU allowing costumed vigilantism. Once has to ignore multiple events more destructive than Stamford that DIDN’T result in public backlash (Magneto incinerating humans en masse in NY? Kang nuking the US?). One ESPECIALLY has to ignore that we as readers KNOW, not suspect, but KNOW that the MU US government and S.H.I.E.L.D. are corrupt and tend to either do the wrong thing, or have worse security than a 7-11 store.

Then, we have to ignore all the really villainous things Stark and company did in the service of the SRA.

Finally, Cap folds. Not back in issue #2, not after Bill Foster’s death (way to honor that sacrifice by the way, Cap, by pretty much saying his death was for naught), but here, in #7, after some contrived emergency workers tackle him (funny how they never did this in ANY OTHER story. Kinda like how the MU citizenry didn’t react to the destruction until the story called for it, eh?).

Sorry, while the conventions of the genre might have hampered some of the execution, I think that’s proof this story either;

A. Shouldn’t have been told, at least, not in the half-assed way it was without being consistent, or

B. Should have been made a “What If?” story, so they COULD see it through more “honestly.”

Of course, it sold well, so Marvel will take exactly the wrong message away from this, and write more nonsensical stories with fall-flat endings and nonexistent editing …

Take it and run.

Richard
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