Just finished Civil War #7...

[sigma7]

...and oh, boy, is it...over.

So, if I understand this correctly, the series starts as an allegory of the nascent War on Terror, complete with extradimensional Gitmo, and the message of its conclusion, as illustrated in Reed's postscript with the phenomenal success in the wake of the final battle, is that by working with the government everything will be just fine.

To quote Sue's dialogue as given to her by mightygodking, what the fucking fuck?

And Cap surrenders? This from the same creative genius who brought us "You think this letter on my head stands for France?" Tony Stark running SHIELD? This point is the closest we get to political commentary -- it's funny as old-school Bush-league cronyism at work, and that's the only way it works at all, given the animosity between Stark and SHIELD that goes back at least a quarter of a century. Stark's on the bottom five list of people who should never ever ever lead SHIELD, below Speedball, Lockheed, Magneto and Deadpool.

Between this and the Decimation, I don't see how the Marvel Universe avoids a reboot anytime soon. Though this whole experience is almost ample motivation for me to steal a Scarlet Witch "I reject your reality and substitute my own!" icon.

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[dvandom.livejournal.com]

Because if the right people win, then they can't keep milking it in The Initiative and in The Inevitable Followup, and then The End Of This Fucking Event, Honest, and then The Just One More Series....

[rainfletcher.livejournal.com]

My reaction was along the lines of "You mean that's IT?!" This is what you've been building to? This is the long-delayed conclusion to the titanic story arc? This is your message -- that the spirit of America should surrender to the loss of rights and liberties and go away quietly?

The conspiracy theorist in me wants to believe that this was not, in fact, how the story was originally supposed to end, and that the delays were brought about by eleventh-hour pressure to change everything. (Sort of like the final issues of the original New Universe, which were supposed to depict the aftermath of a full-scale nuclear war, but were apparently shelved and replaced with the deus ex machina of the Star Brand child waving his hand and saying "None of your weapons work anymore, so you have no choice now but to be nice to each other.")

What a wretched mess this turned into.