Just read The Omega Men.
The ending. Wow. Hmm. What am I supposed to feel about The Omega Men? In the end, as Rayner said, we are all the same? We are all savages. We are all civilized. I have a hard time believing Primus doing what he does. Kalista... was pretty evil all the way through, really.
The last couple pages felt like a setup for something, but nothing follows this series, right?
In the end, I felt that it was good, but we skip through 182 days of the war in several pages. I feel that it could've been longer. Tigorr didn't have much development, and Primus didn't get that much either. I feel a bit unsatisfied, but it was good. Scrapps was my favorite character, but it was a bit lame that she's stopped from killing the one she has the most reason to just so Kalista could be theatrical. The whole "we are better than him" thing is such tripe. You kill so many people, but you should forgive the worst one? That's illogical to me. Be consistent with your murder. Then Primus goes on to kill tons of unarmed civilians during his rule? Does not compute.
The point is that at the end, they were no different. Ultimately nothing changed.
-Tigorr is brought up in a warlike and violent culture before being adopted and bred as a political assassin. He doesn't know what to do with real power or how to lead, since he never has. He was viewed as a complete outcast based on a complex upbringing. Nothing was ever going to work out.
-Kalista was always power hungry and kill happy. This entire thing was just for her to claim power. They make that very clear that she's doing all of this strictly to consolidate her own power. She's willing to kill and manipulate, even though she claims she doesn't want to, to get what she wants. Kyle was worn down by this entire war. He had his beliefs challenged to the extreme. He's not really working for the good guys, but they have to be the good guys, because they're going up against supremely evil guys. Right? That's a huge facet of it. Not only that, but the entire religious side of it. Kyle empathizes with a group that can be so devout in their religion that it dictates their beliefs and gives them hope. Kyle then, after all that mind-numbing war, has a moment of clarity, thinking that he might be able to bring himself above all of it. They can prove that they aren't just power hungry killers. Then Kalista performs the execution, claiming she won. Again, it was all a game to her. It was all about winning. For Kyle it was about being a hero, something that didn't pan out.
-Primus was a coward. He lead nonviolent protests thinking they were the better option, and when given power he didn't know what to do. He'd never had power until the war, when he was given a gun and told to shoot people. By the end of the war it's the only way he knows how to deal with resistance. You give a guy who has never had power a whole ton of power. That can't end well, right?
Has Eddy Barrows always been such a great artist? We all know he killed it on Rebirth Detective Comics, but his Martian Manhunter DCYou run with Rob Williams is particularly blowing me away. Incredible stuff.
Yes. He's the only good part of Higgins' Nightwing run.
How did the big Carol Danvers fans react to how she was in CW2? Do they stand up for her? I've never read her solo stuff, so I just thought she was an asshole.
I've never been more intrigued by her.
Bruce is happy Hawkeye "killed" him cus it just gave him a nice vacation.
Ultimate Hulk, though.
Actually, one of these days I need to finish Civil War II just to see what horrible thing Carol did. One of my main issues with that run, at least with the first 4 or 5-ish issues, was that I was supposed to see what argument from both sides or something, but it was clear Carol was correct.
So you find this kid who can see possible realities if you don't intervene, which allows you to save the world once, and then he sees Thanos will come and fuck shit up, so you make a plan to stop him, and while doing that someone dies and another is hurt badly and I'm supposed to think this was an issue for some reason? If you didn't stop him then, everyone would've died, and soldiers get hurt while doing soldier shit.
I dunno, maybe they make her lose her mind later on in the event or something, but those first issues and just thinking "why the hell should I be listening to Tony Stark right now?".
I'm going to repost what I said a looooong time ago about Carol, though it was only up until issue #5 of CW2, so some of it isn't relevant any more (Ulysses being the bad guy the whole time), but I feel much of it holds water and why I don't think CW2 was that bad.
Here's what I got:
So far, the three major visions have technically been true: a Celestial did show up, Thanos did attempt to take a Cosmic Cube (although it was only in development and not an actual cube yet), and Bruce was indeed about to Hulk out. The Celestial showing up is fairly tame, and they did stop Thanos at the cost of Rhodey's life and almost She-Hulk's
The problem is that Hulk was the tipping point. It was a self-made prophecy. Bruce probably wouldn't have Hulk'd out had every single Avenger, X-Man, and Inhuman show up on his doorstep. This is the major tipping point, because it's the first time that we see people other than Tony genuinely questioning what's been going on. So Tony, who managed to actually uncover how Ulysses' powers work (unlike everyone else) found out that Ulysses actually affects the visions himself. This prompts pretty much everyone to go, "Well I dunno, Carol. Maybe we shouldn't?"
Now, that's key, because She-Hulk has also just woken up and is incredibly distraught. She was nearly killed, her cousin is dead, and the man who killed her cousin got off clean. We don't see it, but I'm pretty sure Carol got it pretty rough from Jennifer as far as verbal beatdowns go. So now, finally, Carol snaps. Her lover's dead. Her best friend probably hates her, or at the very least is in great pain because of her. One of the OG Avengers is dead because of her. Instead of wallowing though, what does she do? She goes all in. See, technically the visions were true, but not all of the elements were under Carol's control. The Celestial worked perfectly, but let's look at the last two: Thanos is ridiculously powerful and has always been a wildcard. She had no idea that Rhodey and Jenny were going to get tagged and to be fair, that event wasn't her fault, though she certainly should have snagged more folk than that. It was an irresponsibility and she knows that. So she goes, "Well Hulk is a major threat. Let's go all in." Except now she's created an overwhelming scenario: Banner is freaking because "Hey look at ALL OF THE EVERYONE," an event that causes Hawkeye to take the shot. Again, a scenario where Carol lost control. So she doubles down.
She's literally gone the reverse of Tony. Tony started this in an out-of-control, overemotional state. Carol kept a secret from him that may have allowed him to keep Rhodey, his best friend, alive. Early on, he's acting out of grief. He thinks it's his fault that Rhodey is dead, either because he wasn't there, or maybe because Rhodey was using an old armor. Carol has done the opposite: she has been operating on a more rational level, but things have slowly spun out of control. Now Tony's in the right and Carol's in the wrong.
TLDR: Carol's arc has made sense to me, and I don't see how it's ruining her character. Not yet. And I'm still waiting for an explanation about the Celestial. My theory is that Ulysses has been playing them all. He took out three major game changers.
It's determined that the guys visions are just probability predictions. He's not seeing the future, just possible futures. She then gets Bruce Banner murdered based on a false vision.
She then also nearly murders Tony Stark because he had the audacity to try and stop her from arresting Mile Morales for the possible future murder of Captain America.
Tony brought that shit on himself. Literally neither of them are blameless. The final fight was Carol reacting to Tony's blatant overreaction and misreading of the situation. After the big fight that wrecked the Triskelion and Carol's attempted arrest of Miles, Miles then bails and Carol spends damn near an entire issue questioning the entire damn thing. She legitimately questions her position in all this. Miles and Steve both go to see what happens and if they fight each other and Carol shows up, but doesn't bring anyone with her (if I recall correctly). Just herself, so she sees if this really pans out. Tony shows up in a Carolbuster armor and she reacts, accidentally putting him in a coma.
The Hulk thing was partially her fault, but in the end she ended up being right.
Bruce Banner was not the Hulk, he had no Gamma powers whatsoever.
He was doing gamma experiments on himself, which Beast discovered and revealed to everyone, and his eyes flashed green, which is why Hawkeye shot, as he was asked to do by Bruce.