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Visions Of Future- Where Civil War II Stops, Action Comics Picks Up

Published Wed, 28 Dec 2016 08:09:34 -0600

Last updated Wed, 14 Aug 2024 07:39:32 -0500

Today sees the final issue of Civil War II #8. In which Ulysses shows the assembled throng a variety of different futures of the Marvel Universe. Something that Captain Marvel has finally got her head round, possibly, when talking to President NotQuiteTrump.

So we get an ad for Monsters Unleashed.

And still Miles Morales killing Captain America. Looks like that vision is still on, but only with another giant Captain America looking on. And still looking like a more grown up Spider-Man.

But then there are Sentinels fighting Spider-Man and killing off his family and friends – is he getting his own Days Of Future Past to mop up Clone Conspiracy?

While Sentinels are fighting alongside X-Men against Avengers again – well, Nova anyway. And whatever is behind him. Is it the Death Star? That's the crossover that might help Marvel's marketshare a little. And these X-Men only have the X-23 Wolverine.

Looks like Ultron is back for another Age Of Ultron – and Captain America dying again? Seriously, the Marvel Universe isn't good for his health? And that does look like Banner Hulk rather than Cho Hulk doesn't it? And that's standard-Wolverine too? And a Tony stark Iron Man – is this the future of the past? Well, at least Captain Marvel is crying about that… and are those Destroyer-like spikes along Ultron's body? Or is it Speedball/Penance again?

And it wouldn't be a vision of the Marvel future in a Brian Bendis comic if it didn't include the Martian alien invasion/possible Killraven storyline that he and his friends once spent many a comic book foreshadowing but never actually getting to. Looks like it's still on the cards.

Oh and look. Thor is looking very… Thor again.

What happens to you, Ulysses? What always happens. Dwayne McDuffie in the late 1980s comic Damage Control knew.

"We lose more people that way…"

And he will be missed. Even by suddenly-more-jowly Presidents of the United States. But if this issue of Civil War II leaves you bereft of such stories, never fret? Because today's Action Comics is going through the exact same plot. Just, you know, in one issue. With Superman going from the Captain America/Tony Stark position…

And taking quite a militant stance upon it.

And doubling down on the Tony Stark attitude to the validity of such visions.

Before seeing one of the visions of the future himself.

And slowly coming round to the idea.

Before going full Captain Marvel on us.

And Superman goes all Judge Dredd! He is the law! Fascist scum, right kids? Just Dan Jurgens and Patrick Zircher got there a little quicker than Bendis and Marquez…