"Civil War" is a 2006-2007 Marvel Comics crossover event storyline built around a self titled seven-issue limited series written by Mark Millar, and penciled by Steve McNiven and which ran through various other titles published by Marvel at the time. The storyline builds upon the events that developed in previous Marvel crossovers, particularly "Avengers Disassembled", "House of M", "Decimation", and Secret War.
The tagline for the series is "Who...
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"Civil War" is a 2006-2007 Marvel Comics crossover event storyline built around a self titled seven-issue limited series written by Mark Millar, and penciled by Steve McNiven and which ran through various other titles published by Marvel at the time. The storyline builds upon the events that developed in previous Marvel crossovers, particularly "Avengers Disassembled", "House of M", "Decimation", and Secret War.
The tagline for the series is "Whose Side Are You On?"
The premise of "Civil War" involves the introduction of a Superhuman Registration Act in the United States. Similar acts have been used as literary devices in Watchmen, Uncanny X-Men, DC: The New Frontier, Powers and Astro City, though never on a scale such as permanently altering an entire pantheon of established pop culture icons. Mark Millar, writer for the story, has said:
The act requires any person in the United States with superhuman abilities to register with the federal government as a "human weapon of mass...
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