tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36331360.post3108654915519752171..comments2023-10-12T05:09:46.380-04:00Comments on Guilty Displeasures: Marvel Civil War Wrap-Up...neilshyminskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14745442660488961314noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36331360.post-68183695840044891992007-03-15T09:52:00.000-04:002007-03-15T09:52:00.000-04:00Given what Millar and Brevoort seem to think they ...Given what Millar and Brevoort seem to think they were doing, I suppose I could (reductively) locate the problem at the level of story structure. <BR/><BR/>Instead of fitting the SHRA into the first issue (well, the Illuminati prelude one-shot, actually -- yecch, crossover marketing), it seems to me that the way to play it would have been to start with Stamford and then present some sort of moral panic followed by a period of SHIELD imposing martial law and a hero draft with various folks picking sides very uneasily -- no one (except mperhaps Cap) really wants to be a mavericks and outlaws, but at the same time even the guys who accept SHIELD's draft don't trust Maria Hill.<BR/><BR/>From there, you run things pretty much the same way, except that you <I>end</I> with Reed and Tony having brokered the SHRA as a compromise that removes Hill from control of SHIELD, creates general amnesty, and ends the martial law stuff. <BR/><BR/>Brevoort and Millar seem to think they produced a "rule of law" conclusion, rather than a perpetual state of emergency as they actually did. Rearranging the story so that there's actually a contrast between the state of emergency measures and the legislative act doesn't solve the deeper problems in concpetion for the story, but it would at least be making the point Millar bafflingly insists was made by the published version.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com