Civil War is mostly about Iron Man, Captain America and Spider-Man. All three are stars of New Avengers. Plus, all three have at least one solo book that ties in (Spider-Man has three). So you might be asking, “Why bother to run this comic as an event tie-in parallel to the event itself?”
Good questions.
This arc is called, “New Avengers: Disassembled.” And that’s basically what happens. There are some opportunities here. Issue #22 is Luke Cage-centric. The next one focuses on Spider-Woman, then Sentry gets an issue. Those are nice. And I like that there are several guest artists, all big names and top talents.
The Cage issue compares the Civil War to the U.S. in the 1950s (during the Communist witch-hunts), and offers his perspective as a black man. Also, he and Jessica Jones have been forced to split up so she can raise their baby, but she’s still rooting for him.
In the Spider-Woman issue, she has lost the protection of Nick Fury, who leaves SHIELD over the whole Civil War thing. Hydra invades the Helicarrier to “rescue” their double agent, Spider-Woman. Once they take her, though, she openly rejects them. They know she cannot serve them any more and she escapes and blows their base up.
She is free from their hold over her. She then joins Cap’s resistance because she has nowhere else to go.
Sentry, the least interesting of the lot, contemplates using his awesome power to just blow the entire planet up so that his friends won’t fight.
It ends where Civil War ends, with Cap assassinated.
Then, Maria Hill offers Tony Stark the Directorship over SHIELD.
She says it will piss people off but…It’s not like he’s not already done this. He’s also been Secretary of Defense for the U.S. So this really isn’t that big a leap.
In all, Bendis can write just about anything at this point in his career. He’s at the top of his game.