Civil War: The Confession # 1
is a comic book published by Marvel Publishing & released on 5 / / 2007Plot Summary
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From the Eisner Award winning team that brought you the start of CIVIL WAR with the NEW AVENGERS ILLUMINATI SPECIAL comes this heart-wrenching finale that cannot be missed. Two of the Marvel heroes most affected by the shocking conclusion of the war get together one last time. What is said between them will set the course of the Marvel Universe for years to come. This is the confession.
Alex Maleev unveils another new fantastic art style especially for this very emotional issue.
Iron Man arrives on a S.H.I.E.L.D. hellicarrier. He prepares to meet with a captive on board. He begins to tell his side of the story as to why everything happened the way it did. He says it's because of King Arthur. He and Doctor Doom had been transported back in time in and he got to meet him. He knew then that they'd be at war someday. He did what he had to do. Even if it meant fighting against friends. He was willing to go all the way. It turns out he was wrong. The worst thing that could happen did. And now, there is one thing that he can never tell anyone. It was the one thing he should've said. "It wasn't worth it." It turns out, he was speaking to the dead body of Captain America.
In a second story, Captain America is being taken to Ryker's Island maximum security penitentiary. Sitting in a prison specially design against him, Iron Man shows up. Captain America goes off on Iron Man. He tells him that he was the one that made the war happen. After everything he's done, all the death and destruction, the compromises of working with villains, he asks him if it was worth it. Iron Man just tells him he's a sore loser and leaves.
It can assumed that this story takes place prior to the first one, before Captain America is killed.
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Great story!...
Reviewed by HaloKing343 on Nov. 2, 2008. HaloKing343 has written 51 reviews. His/her last review was for Once Bitten, Twice Shy. 1 out of 1 users recommend his reviews. |
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This quote is BS! If you hated Civil War and its retarded ending and you need more, then this wonderful book completely captures the emotions that seamed to have been left out of the main storyline. It offurs absolutely no action at all, but still manages to be in my opinion the best Civil War story ever. Out of all the Civil War comics, "The Confession" is by far the best!
It deals with Tony Stark and how he feels about the outcome of the war and how he treats Steve before his death. It is actually really sad. If I was less strong, I would have cried.
This gets a solid 9.5/10 for story and a 7/10 for artwork.
There you go G-Man! The Outsider agrees with me!
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Blood on Your Hands
Reviewed by themaskedhero on May 3, 2009. themaskedhero has written 84 reviews. His/her last review was for Heart of Darkness. 2 out of 2 users recommend his reviews. |
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The Best Civil War One Shot
Reviewed by The Outsider on March 20, 2007. The Outsider has written 127 reviews. His/her last review was for Part 2: Origins. 1 out of 1 users recommend his reviews. |
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This is easily the best and most important Civil War one-shot we've seen. With that said however, it's all talk and no action so some people might not like it. If you don't like Bendis, then you probably won't like this at all.
Although the book is all talk, it's extremely hard to say much about it without spoiling anything. There are character motivations that weren't properly expressed during Civil War (according to some people anyways) as a whole, that are thoroughly explored here.
There's also a couple of things here that I will remember as some of the most important Post Civil War moments in the entire crossover. Some people might wonder why these things weren't just put into the main Civil War series in the first place, but there's a reason for everything.
Some people think Brian Bendis writes great dialog, and some don't. If you do then you'll love it. It's an actual Civil War book where I don't think anyone can complain that there is bad characterization, which some people accused most other Civil War related books to have. He's able to pull that off, without contradicting what came before. Although this issue is all talk, I don't think it was easy to pull off.
Alex Maleev was the perfect choice for this as well. He's obviously used to working with Bendis as he takes a good script that could have been visually boring, and makes it even better. As on Daredevil, Maleev is one of the best comic book artists to express emotions in a characters face and stance.
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Boo hoo Tony Stark, you're still a jerk!
Reviewed by G-Man on March 19, 2007. G-Man has written 158 reviews. His/her last review was for . 11 out of 12 users recommend his reviews. |
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It became clear who Tony was "talking" to just shortly into his "confession." But I don't care what his motivations were. I don't trust the guy. I don't care if he had some futuristic vision and knew it was going to come down to all this. He just seems shadey and slimey. Look at how happy he is running S.H.I.E.L.D. So maybe he isn't the complete cold-hearted b@$t@rd he's seemed like. I know there are those that agree with what he's doing. He's just upholding the law (that he's helped manipulate into going through). I hope he is sad. Steve was his friend. And as he said, it wasn't worth it. Good. Live with that guilt, jerkwad!
The second part confused me at first. I don't know why they ran them in that order. For a bit I thought, "Okay, Cap IS still alive and they're telling us already?" I take it that story took place between Civil War #7 and Cap #25. That makes sense. I didn't really like the second story. Both Steve and Tony seemed a little out of character. Weird since both stories were written by Bendis. You'd think it would've been more...consistent.
For Tony's inner thoughts and "confession," I guess it was worth reading.
