Civil War II Review

Finished reading Civil War II, Marvel sends its heroes once again into another Civil War event as writer Brian Michael Bendis tells a story that centres around the debate of predictive justice. The book opens with She-Hulk in court defending the villain The Jester after being wrongfully arrested. Meanwhile War Machine is meeting with the President about the current political climate while Captain Marvel is talking to Doc Samson over her work life. As all this is happening the Terrigen cloud makes it way to the campus of Ohio State University where a young students named Ulysses discovers that he now has the ability to see future events which leads to the scared student to run into the Inhumans. Later on the heroes of the Marvel universe find themselves fighting against a Celestial in the middle of New York which the heroes defeat and Tony Stark decides to celebrate their victory by having a party in Stark Tower where the heroes meet with Ulysses. Following the meeting with Ulysses a small group of heroes lead by Captain Marvel find themselves battling Thanos thanks to one of Ulysses' visions, however the battle is not without casualties as She-Hulk finds herself in intensive care and War Machine losing his life which puts Tony into a state of grief with the death of his best friend leading to him to kidnapped Ulysses in hope to find out how his powers work. Before gaining any information Captain Marvel along with a group of heroes find Tony and while arguing with one another Ulysses has a vision of the Hulk killing everyone, leading to everyone going to see Bruce Banner and the way that the situation with Bruce goes with his dying at the hand of Hawkeye the heroes begin to choose sides on how to deal with Ulysses vision and whether or not to agree with them. Overall this was a good book as it has an intriguing premise that begins strong by having some very interesting developments with the story and the situations that the characters find themselves in however by the end of the book it becomes a superhero free for all that feels slightly underwhelming with the positions a few characters find themselves in at the end of the book and why some characters are being incredibly impulsive to fight each other. There is some great moments within the book especially during the first half of the book as the characters find themselves in some unique situations that leads to some interesting storytelling with how the books changes its structure to fit the situations the characters find themselves in feels refreshing and is great to read. The art throughout the book is amazing as Olivier Coipel and Jim Cheung's art towards the beginning of the book does a great job in setting the tone to the book while David Marquez's artwork for the majority of the book brings the characters interactions and the fight scenes between the characters feel breathtaking in places with how well scenes are drawn. 7/10.