Ultimate Goblin's Profile

I loved seeing the civil war from Frank's side. What a true tie in as it really informs you of this characters perspective. All around a great issue with my two favorite characters. I love how Fraction wrote Cap and loved the last scene...except one thing. Again Fractions dialogue can be so randomly bad. Like the last line where Frank tells Cap... c'mon I been a bad boy punish me haha like wtf?? F elt so corny.weird and forcing the word punish. Super odd he read that and kept it in his final draft. more

It was okay overall, but I think some dialogues make the moments from Civil War worse. Plus the artist didn't know Goldbug had a new suit, so he portrayed him in that old costume from an old Spider-Man comic... Thanks it wasn't that red/yellow costume from Power Man... I don't know, sometimes all these event tie-ins just don't add anything really important, but spawn continuity errors. But Frank's line about Hitler here was iconic. I don't think we'll ever see something like this in Marvel comics again.more

I love the artwork, but I think the story could be better. I expected more. It's okay, but on some level it feels like something is off.

It's not perfect, but pretty solid and iconic. Still a great event to this day.

The comic lacks all the emotion and heart that the movie had. Yes the movie was much much better than the book

I don't know where all this hate comes from... The ending is just great. I even allow myself to say it couldn't really be any better. What other outcome there could be? If anti-reg would win, what could be their victory? How could they even "win"? There's the law and people. People supported the law and they really weren't happy about the fact that this Civil War destroyed a couple of city blocks just so Cap and his team could stand their right to wear masks and be independent like they used to. If Cap killed Iron Man it would make everything only worse. If Iron Man was forced to withdraw the law... no, stop, he couldn't, it wasn't him who made this decision in the first place. So in the end, all things considered, even if we all may understand the way anti-reg heroes see the situation, it's obvious nothing could be the same again. At least not so fast. Yeah, there's no registration act now and it wasn't there for years already. But it's obvious the world of Marvel needed to change at least for some solid preiod of time to really refresh everything. So the win of pro-reg was not only obvious, but also the only right outcome the writer could come to.

But there were different ways to do this. And the dumb one would be to allow Tony and pro-reg team just demolish all the anti-reg heroes along with Cap and throw them all in jail. Of course in terms of power and strategy Cap had all chances to win the war and to be fair he did. But the problem was that it wasn't really the victory he portrayed in his mind, if he even had a vision of the victory. So when he realized everything, he just surrendered and it was a great move.

And so we have some anti-reg heroes who obviously wouldn't obey under any circumstances, but there's no real scenario how they could win and revert everything back even if they still had Cap on their side. So the Civil War continued some way or another after the limited series and technically it means pro-reg never won it either. This is why that's the best possible ending. Neither team crushed another one, but the event ended in a way so the registration act could stay and affect the world of Marvel for a couple of more years. I think it's only fair.more

Shit hits the fan so quickly in this book... It was an interesting decision to make the death of Goliath so instant and so "casual" like nothing special happened and only on the next pages you, as well as all the heroes, realize it's serious and it's a real war now. Seeing some characters changing sides is great too, the way the story is written it feels super believable. I can't understand where the hate comes from. I mean, I can, but it's really weird to hate the comic that could set the stakes higher than ever before, but still approach everything careful enough and with a real taste. It's not some dumb "edge plot twist for the sake of a plot twist" one after another like Ultimatum, for example. Almost every single thing in this event leads to some other thing and it's so connected that the following thing couldn't be without the thing that happened previously. Nothing feels out of the flow and I love it.more

Again, not that much in the issue and it's not like the Young Avengers scene needed to be this long, but the Spider-Man unmasked moment is iconic... Pretty much the only really outstanding thing in this exact issue, but overall the tone keeps to be serious enough for such an event. Ugh, still it was a really dumb and pointless thing Peter did. And even though it was retconned almost instantly, the scene simply can't be more iconic.more

First time reading this in English after many years since I opened my printed copy the last time... That era of Marvel events had so much meaning and influence... Not that much happens here, but it was a great enough intro. McNiven's artwork is always great, but it was peak at the time, even though some faces from some unusual viewpoints look comical. The book is quite cinematographic and it's the price we pay for that. It's funny how the first issue pretty much sets everything and makes you wating for what comes next. The fact that Marvel still can't leave Civil War alone after so many years is a proof of how iconic this story is. It was fresh and felt real. I wish I could care this much about recent Marvel comic events, but if it's not some cheap cashgrab and reuse of old ideas, then it's just something you can't care less.more

An insane mess... Not really awful, but far from being anything good. I'd advice to skip it, even though it was pretty obvious already, but I really had some hopes it could be a well thought standalone story. It is not... Some parts felt like unnecessary fillers, while the main storyline was rushed and some characters and their presonalities were almost ignored.

It looks like the book tries to cover too many things at once without the real focus... That's almost it, but most of the characters are still super flat and barely explored, but at the same time some new ones keep on appearing.

It's actually not that bad at all...

I think I liked it more, than I expected. However, the second chapter wasn't that great. I loved how things began and started to expect some further slow introduction of all the characters, but I think the author brought in too much too fast. Some decisions are interesting, but others are either arguable or too simple. I hope it gets better in the next issues. 0.5 points plus as a benefit of doubt .more

Two questionable stories and one old reprint... It's funny that the humour of that reprint is better than these new stories. I hope when I get to She-Hulk series of that time, they are better.

Uh... So Clint is suddenly resurrected and he wants to find Wanda, he finds her but she doesn't remember anything, so he just bangs her and away he goes... Kinda too simple and not that interesting, but at least the art was great. This whole issue is the art, so I don't want to judge it too much.