THE FRONTLINES OF WAR!

Civil War: Frontline# 1
Publisher: Marvel
Writer: Paul Jenkins
Artists: Ramon Bachs, Steve Leiber, Ken Kobayashi



The world is changing with the Civil War between masked heroes and the sovereignty of the Government! In a world of paranoid plot theories, none can be more aware of an individual donning a disguise and protecting civilians from villains. Is this vigilantism; is it the protocol of a citizen's arrest? Are some people even aware who this people are and how they systematically operate!

Civil War: Frontline #1 is a title that will have the faithful reader right in the thick of war with the dividing lines between Captain America and Iron Man. The title has three mini-tales all surround from the occurrences of Civil War #1.

The first story Embedded spirals out from the events after the government wanted the heroes to register and reveal their identities. Spiderman wanted to offer his reasons for wearing a disguise. Spiderman visited a reporter who constitutionally put the record strait about Spiderman’s worries for his family and spouse if he would reveal his identity. Iron Man makes an unprecedented announcement to the worldwide television audience. This story is worth picking up this title alone. The second tale Accused visits the potential consequence of what happened with Speedball and the New Warriors.

The third is story is a montage featuring Spiderman and an anonymous poem from 1944 concerning the official law 9066 by the president. The executive law 9066 was to detain Asian-Americans and send them to wartime relocation camps. This was the largest controlled migration in Modern American history.

This is a fantastic reading companion to the Civil War event, which, is spreading through out all the Marvel titles. The Artwork by the various artists in each story captures the writer’s thoughts respectively. This story has not yet begun to touch the surface of the political statement against the heroes and the other citizens on the frontline in this critical time within the Marvel universe. Which side will you choose?

This title definitely deserves an inquisitive rating of four!