Thanks, I was going to ask if there were graphic novels or something I could get hold of that would cover this stuff.
I suspect there are collections of the main miniseries -- but unfortunately, this was the cross-over-iest of cross-overs. Much of the key backstory motivating the characters takes place in their own books (eg, Reed Richards playing at, essentially, psycho-history and concluding the the populace is on the verge of turning on the heroes). And there are key beats all over Iron Man, several different Avengers books, Cap, etc. Indeed, the moment that I personally consider the end of the story actually takes place in Captain America, a couple of months after the end of the official miniseries.
(Not to mention that this is just the camel's nose in the tent. Civil War led directly to The Initiative, which led to Dark Reign, which led to Siege. What I think of as the overall arc took something like eight years to play out. Grand epic politics, and some very good stories along the way, but massive.)
So basically, the miniseries itself is just the skeleton. Most of the flesh is in other books, so the important parts of Civil War probably run something like 100 issues, scattered hither and yon...
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Date: 2016-05-19 05:16 pm (UTC)I suspect there are collections of the main miniseries -- but unfortunately, this was the cross-over-iest of cross-overs. Much of the key backstory motivating the characters takes place in their own books (eg, Reed Richards playing at, essentially, psycho-history and concluding the the populace is on the verge of turning on the heroes). And there are key beats all over Iron Man, several different Avengers books, Cap, etc. Indeed, the moment that I personally consider the end of the story actually takes place in Captain America, a couple of months after the end of the official miniseries.
(Not to mention that this is just the camel's nose in the tent. Civil War led directly to The Initiative, which led to Dark Reign, which led to Siege. What I think of as the overall arc took something like eight years to play out. Grand epic politics, and some very good stories along the way, but massive.)
So basically, the miniseries itself is just the skeleton. Most of the flesh is in other books, so the important parts of Civil War probably run something like 100 issues, scattered hither and yon...