Your heart aches seeing Captain America and Iron Man beat each other up. I just reread the original Civil War epic after Marvel announced a new Civil War book tie-in to the big Secret Wars event.
Leinil Francis Yu (a veteran of the epic Secret Invasion) joins Charles Soule for the new story set in a brutal Warzone of Battleworld.
“It takes the premise of the original [Civil War]—a super hero-focused internal battle—and expands it out to deliver on the promise of the title,” he explains. “In this new story, the Civil War has been going on for a long time, and it involves all of us—the entire country—not just the super heroes. There’s a twist to the early part of the story that I don’t want to spoil yet, but I will say that Captain America and Tony Stark are still very much at odds in this book,” Soule told Marvel.com.
Soule also reflected on the politics and emotional tug of war in the action-packed epic war of heroes.
“I remember the original Civil War seeming like a real paradigm shift. It was a way of thinking about these characters more as people, with points of view that could generate real conflict amongst themselves, [rather] than just good-guy bad-guy chess pieces moved around on super hero plot boards. The unassailable forces for good were…beating each other up? Over an ideological argument where both side had a completely defensible point of view? It felt very fresh. I hope my new Civil War story will feel the same way to today’s readers.”
Original story artist Steve McNiven returns to deliver a variant for the first issue – you can see to the side.
As you can see by Yu’s cover above the new book features the same cover styling but with a twist on the fighting Avengers as Steve Rogers slams the iron mask off Tony Stark.
Civil War #1 arrives in June.
Rogers vs. Stark hits the big screen next year in Captain America: Civil War.
By Editor