Civil War Frontline #1: *Spoilers!*

Well this issue supplied my needed Civil War *fix* for the time being. It was pretty eventful. Spidey's interview with the reporter was pretty good, and the end was pretty funny. Iron Man holds a press conference regarding the registration act and in doing so he removes his helmet and comes clean with the American public revealing his idendity as Tony Stark: An alcoholic trying to come clean. Two people find a body in a field in upstate NY and its Speedball! He survived by absorbing a great deal of the blast. He then inadvertantly releases all the energy, killing the two men that found him. He is later shown to be powerless in a hospital / research center. A Shield agent shows up and tells Speedball about what happened and then places him under arrest. The end of the issue is a short story comparing the registration act to the relocation of Japanese U.S. citizens to wartime relocation camps during the 1940's. Pretty interesting viewpoint but I doubt everyone will agree with the comparison of these two events though...

Thanks for the review! I haven't picked up this issue yet...and yeah, I agree with your opinion on the comparison of the re-allocation of Japanese folks in WWII in the US with the registration act.

I'm puzzled by Speedball's arrest. Its not like he intentionally killed the 2 men who found him.

I think it was over the whole "blowing up the city" thing. haha. Seeing as how this really goes into Civil War more than I thought it would, I can't to pick this up tomorrow.

Nice issue. I loved the bit about Tony saying he's an alcaholic. I also don't agree with the comparison in the last section. While I don't support registration, I think that Japanese Internerment was much worse.

I'm not reading this one after the huge disappointment that was Generation M. But tell me, is Sally Floyd still drunk off her ass and crying about her dead kid?

She has been sober for awhile, but during her interview with Spidey (at her apartment) she has an alcoholic beverage. Then she starts to hit on him until he tells her he is married. It was an ackward moment. Also Spidey briefly mentions the death of her child and how it touched him to read her article about it. Can someone tell me how the child died?

I'm assuming it had something to do with reading the first issue of Generation M then swallowing bleach. : D

That's believable, yeah.

I always views the super hero act more like the Mcarthy trials like iron man comming out and admiting he's well iron man. It's a bit of a stretch but the heroes arent being placed in camps for contanment (yet). It's more like are you now or ever been a super hero

I was on the fence about this book, but I'm glad I decided to go with it. I read Generation M, which didn't meet all of my expectations, but I did like the "through the eyes of a civilian" angle, which happened to draw me to Frontline.

I'm beginning to think that Iron Man has lost his mind. The public has already begun to villify the heroes, and what does he do? Reveals his identity AND admits that he's an alcoholic. I can't imagine the public having much confidence in a man who could be under the influence while inside a suit capable of mass destruction. Maybe the government will make Tony go to AA with Sally.

I totally knew that Speedball would survive, but it still felt great to actually see it happen. And yet I still wonder why I'm so happy when I've never read a single issue of New Warriors (though I think I managed to acquire a few issues). It's probably his unique powers (there's way too many characters with super-strength, flight, and/or elemental/energy powers). But in my opinion, the fact that SHIELD is placing him under arrest is just plain stupid.

The New Warriors engaged some escaped supervillains, and Nitro was provoked into using his powers. Boom. Let's look at this in a real-world scenario. What if some cops were chasing an escaped convict, who was provoked into opening fire and killed some innocent bystanders? Should the cops be arrested and held responsible?

As for the short poem at the end, I can see where they're coming from with the comparison. Super heroes are being singled out and not trusted because of a tragedy, but isn't that practically the status quo for a number of Marvel heroes? Of course, I can see people taking this the wrong way. I have to admit, it's a bit extreme to compare the treatment of WW2-era Japanese-Americans to super heroes.

And I have a feeling it'll take me a while to get used to 616 Ben Urich, as I'm more familiar with his (dramatically different) Ultimate counterpart.

Basically, she was a mutant whose "power" was that she aged backwards, and her body continually regressed (at four years old her body was six months old) until she simply died.

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