>This is it! War comes to the Marvel Universe this June as the Earth-shattering comics event of 2016 comes to comic shops with a jam-packed double-size issue! Today, Marvel is pleased to present your exciting look inside CIVIL WAR II #1 – from chartbusting creators Brian Michael Bendis and David Marquez! The fan-fave creative team that brought you Invincible Iron Man join forces once more to bring you a tale of hero against hero – and a Marvel Universe divided in two!
>Ulysses – a young Inhuman with the power to profile the future has emerged. His new abilities send shockwaves through the superhuman community. Divided amongst themselves, will they use Ulysses to prevent danger before it happens? Or should they allow the future to unfold unaltered? As his new powers send shockwaves rippling across the Marvel Universe – battle lines will be drawn. Do you stand with Iron Man? Or will you side with Captain Marvel?
>Will the heroes of the Marvel Universe wield the power of “predictive justice” to change the future or battle to protect tomorrow? Battle lines will be drawn. Lives will be changed. Heroes will fall. The comic book event that will have the world talking kicks off on June 1st in the double-sized CIVIL WAR II #1!
First revealed last February in a Marvel.com article; colored version was first revealed at the In-Store Convention Kickoff livestream.
First revealed at the In-Store Convention Kickoff livestream.
First revealed during last month's "Next Big Thing" conference call with the comic book press.
The B&W version was first revealed last February in a Marvel.com article.
>First revealed during last month's "Next Big Thing" conference call with the comic book press.
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Newly revealed variants:
Variant cover by David Marquez
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Virgin Black & White Connecting Variant B by KIM JUNG GI
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Battle Variant by CHRIS SPROUSE
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Party Variant by Yasmine Putri
FIN
Civil War II tie-ins announced so far for July:
>Civil War II: Kingpin from writer Matthew Rosenberg and artist Ricardo Lopez Ortiz
>Squadron Supreme #9 from writer James Robinson and guest artist ACO
Deal your bingo cards now!
>>81853450
And then the big guy pulls out his gun.
>>81853475
>War Machine and She Hulk doing fine
>>81853475
Why are so many non flyers flying? At least she-hulk and Steve have jetpacks.
>>81853862
It's an Ulysses vision.
Also, have Terry Dodson art for... something. Probably a CWII#3 variant. (from Alonso's twitter)
>>81853475
Who is blonde girl above Flint and I hope they didn't give Bombshell civies
>>81854066
Not listed on PREVIEWSworld currently, but that variant may see the light of day as one for Civil War II #3 in the July solicits.
>>81853475
why does steve have 2 shields?
>>81854165
His new shield is actually two shields that can link together. Also one can shoot lasers, I think?
>>81854137
Seeing it in color, her being next the inhumans, and the chest diamond. I think it is a miscolored Irelle.
>>81854211
The red part is a laser blade I believe.
>>81854222
meant to link>>81854128
>>81853520
I'm not like the faces on that cover.
>>81854222
Kinda glad I haven't read much Medusa based on this page.
>>81853450
Are these villains new? They look pretty cool.
>>81853475
Pixie ?
>>81853992
hawkeye is my favorite of the non-flyers in this because he's so fucking high up
>>81853475
Is Quicksilver just running away?
Was Carol/Rhodey a thing prior to this shit or is this captain marvel's first official BLACKED moment?
>>81853475
Wait a minute, War Machine and She-Hulk are alive. That means that this story takes place before the events of the FCBD issue. Weird.
>>81854959
been dating for years, they just never seem to be in the same comics
>>81854959
They were but it wasn't a pushed thing. The one thing in continuity Bendis remembers and it's a BLACKED relationship.
>>81853475
I haven't read X-Men in a while. Is that Angel with the batwings in the top right? If so, how did that happen?
>>81855009
That is hulking,
Civil War II #0 has been delayed to May 18.
>>81853475
>Some robot aliens attack NYC
>CALL EVERYONE
>Thanos comes to Earth to steal a Cosmic Cube
>Bring 9 people
BRAVO CAROL
what's with all these new characters
>>81855069
When the B&W version first came out everybody though that was the Thanos team.
>>81855130
These are the teams from the current team books.
>>81854894
I am talking about the one with pink hair and fairy wings above carol and next to Nico
>>81853450
Hi Budget Galactus!
>>81854347
Shit, this page makes me glad I've pretty much dropped everything Marvel is doing.
>>81855235
that's pixie
>>81855151
>These are the teams from the current team books.
The one exception being Pixie who is there despite not being in any books.
I thought the new avengers weren't allowed in America?
>>81855691
Squirrel Girl, Wiccan, Hulkling, and Tippy-Toe were kicked out, so they're no longer part of AIM. The only New Avengers there are Hulkling and Squirrel Girl.
>>81855752
And Songbird was actually a covert SHIELD agent all along
>>81855951
Ah, yeah. That too.
Does /co/ consider Marquez a meme artist or poser?
>>81853556
Gwen Poole sure has nice legs.
>>81853593
>guest artist ACO
This fucker couldn't complete a single Middy issue. Now he ran off to Marvel?
>>81856280
His comic book career started in 2009 with Image and Archaia, and he only entered Marvel in 2012.
>>81856375
He's not exclusive to any Big Two publisher yet.
>>81856446
>His comic book career started in 2009 with Image and Archaia, and he only entered Marvel in 2012.
What does that have to do with anything?
>>81855130
None of these characters are new. Part of the purpose of events is to expose lesser-known characters to wider audiences. The original Civil War was full of obscure characters.
>>81854914
Can you blame him?
>>81855069
But anon, you don't understand! They had THREE HOURS to prepare! It's not like they had, oh I don't know, a magic teleporting dog right there!
>>81853427
>Or should they allow the future to unfold unaltered?
I'm with Iron Man, they should have just let Thanos steal the Cosmic Cube, because then War Machine wouldn't have died at that moment. He would have died later, when Thanos uses the Cube to kill everyone on Earth.
Damn you Carol! How dare you infringe on Thanos' civil rights!
>>81857125
Best part is they didn't stop him from showing up, they waited for him. If it is turning every potential crime scene into a sting operation and not arresting before the crime there will be no reason for tony's bitching.
>>81857270
This, there is literally nothing wrong with using the precog, it's how you use the intel he gives you.
>>81857321
Just like how registration isn't exactly bad but look at how it turned out.
>>81857401
The problem with Registration is that it came with mandatory military servitude, among other things
>>81854959
they've been a thing for a while, but it's ridiculous how little chemistry they have,
>>81854959
>>81857506
The relationship was introducted in the first issue of KSD's second run of Capt. Marvel, by the end of the issue she goes to space and Rhodes never shows up.
Then he showed up once in the current run and didn't appear again.
>>81856280
It's pretty obvious that he doesn't use poser. I don't know what "meme artist" is supposed to mean.
>>81857056
Not only did they have a magic teleporting dog, but they got Ms. America, who is also a teleporter.
>>81857270
Yeah. 99% of threats in the MU are done villains who already have a criminal record anyway, so the "punishment comes after the crime" argument doesn't fly.
>>81853475
Who's that guy with the dog on his back at the bottom, Cyclops?
Who's the dog?
>>81853475
I thought Black BOlt was supposed to have disappeared or something.
>>81857767
He owns and lives in a bar in grand central station
>>81857761
It's Reader, an Inhuman. The dog is his seeing-eye dog, because he's blind.
His powers are that he can make things he reads real, since they cut out his eyes he uses braille cards that he carries around, otherwise he'd be even more OP.
>http://marvel.wikia.com/wiki/Reader_(Inhuman)_(Earth-616)
>>81857633
I mean, I could maybe buy that Bendis forgot Ms. America can teleport, since he forgot everything else about her.
But he literally had Lockjaw teleport the Inhumans in.
>>81857565
Also she paired them up because some tumblrinas wanted to and that was because both Rhodey and Carol are in the Airforce.
>>81858116
Well, at least it keeps the air force from spreading
>>81858116
Ben Grimm and Carol were both in the Air Force and actually knew each other before they became heroes, why did nobody ever ship them?
>>81857427
Yes, and the Gov't has your formerly secret identity. No way anything could possibly go wrong with that...
>>81853427
>inhuman
Why shoehorn them into the event? Should have used the broken robot from deadpool.
Hell, if you want to have a civil war 2 with the inhumans in it, why not have the topic be the fucking terrigen gases just floating around.
>>81858392
>Should have used the broken robot from deadpool.
Bendis event, you bet your ass a bendis character is going to be the center of attention.
>Hell, if you want to have a civil war 2 with the inhumans in it, why not have the topic be the fucking terrigen gases just floating around.
Becuase worrying about the gas is already the plot the x-books and Inhumans books and they probably will have an event for that too.
>>81858263
Didn't they actually date for awhile?
>>81858735
Nah, he dated the second Ms Marvel, Sharon Ventura.
>>81853475
>All them filthy inhuman
>And mutant traitors
>>81858764
>>81854959
They've been teased to be a thing in the background for years.
Kinda like how Eileen and Rigby started dating in Regular Show, but they never made a deal of it, so there wasn't any drama to bring up. It was just revealed, and all parties were satisfied.I like the ship, personally.
>>81859172
oy vey remember M-day
>>81853427
With all the precogs and people with access to time machines that have existed in the MU for years , why is this Ulysses kid suddenly important? He isn't doing anything others haven't done before.
>>81853475
>These guys are so powerful they require almost all of the running superhero teams
>somehow the ANAD avengers held them off without jane or vision
>>81859788
He's an Inhuman and his abilities are slightly different
>>81853450
Aku meets Galactus meets Ultron?
why do I feel like it's going to be cool visuals and shit story?
>>81860310
>slightly different
How?
What possible variation could there to be the power to predict the future?
>>81860776
Probably because it's Bendis writing and Marquez drawing.
>>81855068
Well, so much for me having a good birthday...
>>81860780
The deusexmachina "I can predict big things only on some moments for plot convinience" type
>>81862517
Then that means he's less effective than other precogs and anybdy with a time machine, that makes him LESS special
>>81857565
>Then he showed up once in the current run and didn't appear again.
Carol's been busy
>>81855752
And Hawkeye
>>81862727
I'm sure Hawkeye gets a pass since he's Hawkeye. In fact, I'm pretty sure the only one that really has a "kill/capture on sight" dealio is Sunspot. The New Avengers can't operate on US soil, but I think they can do solo superheroing in the US just fine except for Sunspot. I mean, Squirrel Girl still does all her solo stuff in the US just fine without anyone hassling her.
Mark my words, at the end of the event it turns out it was all a vision by Ulysses.Just like Breaking Dawn pt. 2
>>81862679
She's been busy all the time since it was revealed that they've been dating. I can count on one hand the times we've seen them together as a couple.
One way or another the relationships gonna end in the not so distant future.When the Carol's movie hits and Rhodey is nowhere to be found because he ded in the MCU.
Who will save our tits?
>>81854222
>Getting stuck with All New All Different Daily Show with Trevor Noah?
Ha! InHumans really can't catch a break.
>>81853475
>Whor front and center
>Hulking in back but no wiccan
>Spider Woman
>War Machine
>She Hulk
>Dirty Inhumans
>Xmen Traitors
>LE ULTIMATES
>>81872765
Who would you have preferred?
>>81872813
Anyone not mentioned.
>Rodgers
>Iron Man
>Vision
>Spiderman
>Spiderman (Miles)
Literally anyone but her front and center.
>>81872895
I meant the entire thing not just Jane. you complained about most of them.
Who /Bendis/ here
>>81873007
Oh, well -She Hulk -War Machine -Inhumans Xmen can stay add more xmen, they have fucking squirrel grill but no wiccan. Then add the others that aren't in the image.
>>81873245
Visually that might be too crowded. there is no reason for wiccan to be not around other then Bendy not knowing how to use him without having him be too OP.
>>81873436
That still raises the issue of having Hulking but no Wiccan. Unless Bendis is going to destroy that relationship. But minus She Hulk, War Machine and the Inhumans then add the remaining avengers.
>>81873568
That's why I said there is no reason for wiccan to not be there
>>81853475
is it normal to hate pages like this? they dont make any sense
>>81873056
/Bendis/?
>>81859968
Jill Valentine and Hobo Phoenix Wright
Da fuck?
>>81873568
Wiccan is Scarlet Witch's son. Bendis wouldn't be able to stop himself from shitting on him if he showed up, but is probably self-aware enough to know that shitting on a gay would get him a lot of hate, so he's just going to not use him at all to avoid that whole clusterfuck.
Let it never be said that Bendis isn't committed to actively shitting on Wanda and everything she touches every chance he gets.
>>81875978
Jojo's Bizarre Adventure is a helluva drug.
>>81857506
Carol only has chemistry with Jessica.
>>81860776
Because it is a Bendis book which isn't a street level hero. I like his action sequence sensibilities which always makes the fight issues of his team books readable, but they hover between eh and shit. You'd think a man who has been writing team stuff for near on a decade would be better at it, but nope.I still am fond of his Avengers run. I got into Marvel via the Ultimate universe in 2000 but never read mainline Avengers til years later, so his run was the one I jumped in on because I was a huge USM fan and was all 'whoa, Bendis is on Avengers now? Cool!'
The thing that's most tedious about this event is that we all know Ulysses will be killed. If he exists past this event, then the status quo is broken. Somehow every villain attack will be known before it happens, and the Marvel U can't work that way.
>>81857565
He was actually in her run in a couple of issues of KSD's relaunch and in Carol's secret wars mini
>>81877440
Or he loses his power or he just decides hey guys fuck you all I'm out
>Captain Marvel not on Iron Man's side
Why
>>81877512
>In July, writers Christos and Ruth Fletcher Gage join Kris Anka on CAPTAIN MARVEL and they bring war with them!
>With Civil War II blanketing the Marvel Universe, the two scribes assume the responsibility of being the generals of the book as Carol Danvers becomes a focal point of the conflict. However, both feel very aware that they could not be as effective on the title without Anka as their collaborator.
>“We are big fans of what Kris has been doing with [CAPTAIN MARVEL writers] Tara [Butters] and Michelle [Fazekas], so we can’t wait,” enthuses Christos on the team-up. “Kris has shown a strong ability to combine big spectacle with intimate character beats, and that’ll be incredibly important for the Civil War II storyline.”
>While Civil War II promises big action and spectacular battles, the Gages remain dedicated to keeping the character and her perspective in the forefront of CAPTAIN MARVEL.
>“For Carol, it would be a dereliction of duty to have this incredible resource [the Inhuman Ulysses] and not use it to save lives,” Ruth articulates. “How could you avoid the chance to prevent a bombing, or to save hundreds from an earthquake?”
>“She can’t,” adds Christos. “It’s her job as a soldier and an Avenger to intervene in these things. And anyone trying to stop her is threatening the very lives she’s trying to save.”
>Her ascension to the de facto captain of that side of the debate has been a long time coming according to the duo.
>“It’s safe to say that Carol’s been evolving from being a soldier to a leader for some time now, and her involvement in Civil War II is a logical progression from that,” Ruth points out. “She’s going beyond just leading a team of other heroes. She’s taking a stand, actively gathering others around her, and fighting for a cause she believes in—a cause opposed by others who feel equally strongly about it.”
>>81879201
>While Danvers has been evolving in front of the eyes of the readers, Civil War II marks the first time that a large swath of non-powered denizens of the Marvel Universe notices too.
>“At the start of the story, Captain Marvel is probably viewed about the same as any number of other Marvel super heroes,” suggests Christos. “She has her hardcore fans, like Kamala Khan, Ms. Marvel, but for the average citizen of the Marvel Universe, she’s frankly probably somewhat interchangeable with, say, Wonder Man or She-Hulk: a hero they generally feel good about, but, unless they’ve been directly, personally saved by her, they don’t think about her that much; kind of the way most of us probably don’t know the names of our local firefighters, if we haven’t had to call on them.”
>“But that’s going to change,” Ruth continues. “Carol will become a focal point of this conflict and controversy, and she’ll be very much in the spotlight. How she’s viewed and how she handles it are at the core of the story.”
That's it; the Gages will write issue #7 of Captain Marvel.
>Marc Guggenheim: “You don’t need to read the first arc of AGENTS OF S.H.I.E.L.D. to jump in,” he asserts. “This represents a very good jumping on point for new readers. On the other hand, the readers that have read the first arc will see how organically that arc sets up what’s going on here with Coulson in this Civil War II tie-in.”
Agents of S.H.I.T. will have a Civil War II tie-in this July in issue #7.
Sauce: http://marvel.com/news/comics/26029/declaring_civil_war_agents_of_shield
Agents of S.H.I.T. confirmed for not cancelled after the first arc.
>>81853427
>implying there's any chance I'd choose Tony's team over Carol, Steve, Bucky, Clint, Peter, and Vision
top kek
and Tony's team has Captain Socialism, Whore Thor, and Squinty Eyed Hulk. kek
Spider-Woman #9 will come in July as a Civil War II tie-in; no interior artist announced so far: http://comicvine.gamespot.com/articles/dennis-hopeless-talks-spider-womans-civil-war-ii-s/1100-155309/
Because Marvel says so.
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>>81853538
#7 Battle Variant.
>>81881985
i'm unironically excited for the shit load of tie ins
>>81882048
Explain yourself.
>>81853427
Really hope this sells like shit.
With Dr Strange coming out in the fall, I find it hard to believe that the Last Days of Magic arc is so under hyped but hey, one movie will do better than the other and Disney still wins.
>>81882304
The first issue is gonna be the best selling issue of the year
why does everything have a vagina now
>>81854914
Based Quicksilver
>>81873056
The writer?
>>81877109
It's what I want
>>81853475
The return of Beast... It looks like another section of the board will be covered. Hooray?
>>81883870
Beast is absent in Uncanny Inhumans for its current arc because he's working endlessly for a cure to the terrigen cancer.
>>81879201
>“How could you avoid the chance to prevent a bombing, or to save hundreds from an earthquake?”
The more I read about this, the more I begin to side with Carol.
This isn't like Minority Report at all, I find nothing objectionable in what she's doing.
>>81873056
>>81883733
I'm fairly new to comics so is there any place where this kind of dialogue was actually good and effective? I assume he did it somewhere and people liked it originally, then he overused it and it became bad, then finally became a meme?
>>81884166
Ultimate Spider-Man cemented it.
>>81853475
Why is Pixie there?
>>81854983
>>81853862
Civil War 2 is supposed to be fought someone with precognition, right? Maybe they died in a vision.
>>81884166
Ultimate Spider-man
>>81884034
Just wait until Carol brings out the berserk Thor clone and supervillain army to discredit herself.
>>81853520
>literally who
>>81877109
weren't they on some tsundere shit? I remember there was something going on but I never paid close attention because it was a tie-in to something else I was reading
>>81882304
>last days of magic
Ew
>>81882304
. . . The whole "Last Days of Magic" thing is what's honestly keeping me from enjoying Dr. Strange right now. I like the art, I like the writing, but the PLOT . . .
Look, we all watched Lord of the Rings, western fantasy has an obsession with "The Magic is Dying!" but I am frankly sick of it.
I wanted to explore the weird and wonderful, not watch it die!
>>81853475
>Half of the people that cant fly are flying
>She-Hulk's alive
>War Machine's alive
>Cap has 2 sheilds
>Traitor mutants
>Inhumans
>Whor front and center
>That dog is somehow staying on that Inhuman's shoulders
It's more wrong than that Depeche Mode song.
>>81888045
Cap's new shield splits in two
>>81879201
>Captain Marvel switches writers just in time for the crossover
I guess the ones from the first arc didn't want to fall in line and Bendis ate them.
>>81888487
Too bad it wasn't the artist to go.
When did C. America become a woman?
>>81889691
Never. Sam Wilson (Falcon) replaced Steve for a while, but now Steve is back in action.
>>81882430
It's gotta be the Rebirth one-shot, right? I mean, it's 80 pages of content for 3 bucks, who the hell wouldn't buy that?
>>81853475
off topic but did cable ever react to Cyclop's "death"
>>81879472
>Guggenheim
This is like an all star crapshoot
>>81893197
He reacted to the first one, not sure about this one though I don't think so.
>>81894013
I wonder if he'll sneak Felicity someway into the comic.
>>81891321
Captain America 2099 is still running around NYC, so there is a female Cap.
