Originally Posted by
shgs
Well I certainly can't argue with that. I like comics that examine the politics and ideals that superheroes stand for - its one of the reasons I am excited about Sam Wilson being Captain America because it offers an opportunity to explore a very different angle of what it means to be American and to live up to the ideal of America - so I am enjoying Civil War as a story, even if its not 100% faithful to 616 Steve Rogers or Tony Stark.
The original Civil War, although I did enjoy it and thought it was a great concept, didn't do a great job of making the pro-registration side of the argument and made that side do some pretty despicable things at the same time as over-blowing the moral dimension to the anti-registration side. This time round I feel like Soule has done a great job of showing the dangers of pursuing a single ideology at the expense of all else - on both sides - and the two sides' inability to compromise bears a closer resemblance to the intransigence of real world politics than the complete loss of rationality and proportion in the original.