MORE DETAILS ON UPCOMING MARVEL'S CIVIL WAR II EVENT

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Upcoming Brian Michael Bendis, David Marquez and Justin Ponsor's, Civil War II will be ignited by the death of popular Marvel hero at the hand of another.




Bendis says that the latest series is similarly rooted in the controversial news headlines of today. "People’s personal accountability is the theme of this one,” he tells the New York Daily News. "From the way cops are acting on camera, to the way people talk to each other online."

Marvel's last hero-vs-hero blockbuster, soon to be adapted on the big screen in "Captain America: Civil War," pitted Iron Man against the Star-Spangled Avenger, but this time it'll be Ol' Shellhead vs. Captain Marvel, with other heroes taking sides.

Official "Civil War" synopsis: "A mysterious new Marvel character comes to the attention of the world, one who has the power to calculate the outcome of future events with a high degree of accuracy. This predictive power divides the Marvel heroes on how best to capitalize on this aggregated information, with Captain Marvel leading the charge to profile future crimes and attacks before they occur, and Iron Man adopting the position that the punishment cannot come before the crime."

There are a couple names readers can check off their list already. According to the report, it will not be Human Torch or Peter Parker/Spider-Man that end up six-feet-under, although Bendis was using the Web-Head as a placeholder during discussions, until he and Marvel editor-in-chief Axel Alonso came up with their ultimate choice during a break between meetings.

The gathered Marvel higher-ups acknowledged the slippery nature of character deaths in licensed, ongoing stories, with Marvel publisher Dan Buckley admitting that first death will merely serve as the series' "marketing hook," explaining, "The thing that’s really compelling is whether or not there’s a story afterwards that’s going to connect with readers," and expressing confidence that the full story will resonate with invested fans.




Source: ComicBookResources; NYDailytimes
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