Via Rick Jones, Jennifer "She-Hulk" Walters tells Tony off.
Perhaps Marvel is not entirely ignorant of law and morality and good sense. Perhaps they've known since the exile of the Hulk and the beginning of Civil War that Tony Stark was evil and needed to be stopped.
Perhaps the only problem is that they suck at packaging. Because, of course, the story packaging told us Civil War was over and settled and new stories were beginning, when in fact Civil War is still going on.
One clue to this, I suppose, was Civil War #7, the putative end, which was barely cognizable as an ending in a storytelling sense, and that largely because "last issue of the series" says "ending".
I suppose being merely incompetent instead of stupid, grossly offensive, and incompetent is an achievement of sorts, the triumph of low expectations.
Posted by Greg at May 24, 2007 9:47 AM
Well, if that's the case, can we bring Millar and Quesada up on charges of lying in print (no, I'm not serious)? I know Millar has said/lied over and over that there was no irony, no indication that the bad guys won Civil War, and Quesada and Brevoort have been backing him up.
It just seems like we the readers are stuck with one of two interpretations;
1. Marvel outright lied, and did always intent what you have said, to bring Tony down and show he was evil, or
2. Marvel meant what they said earlier, and now are running around frantically in damage-control mode to "fix" things.
I'm less likely to believe #2 only because it's not been that long since CW ended, I can't see them backing off that quickly.
Great, so Marvel is populated with liars, idiots, or both :)
Take it and run.
First of all, after reading those pages I find the characterization of Stark to be completely off--losing his cool and looking fearful of Jennifer Walters, the *lawyer*. Second, does anybody *really* believe that Stark fears litigation, given all he's already done? And third ... why am I spending any time at all discussing Civil War when I've already spent the last 10 of my over 30 years of comic book reading *avoiding* most superhero titles like they were weasels with ebola? *sigh* I miss comics.
First of all, why would Stark be afraid of "Jen Walters, Attorney at Law" at all? Doesn't he have some kind of extradimensional prison he can send her off to if she starts to become a pest? I mean, really, why even let her leave after threatening him openly like that? Doom would have put her in a deathtrap at the very least instead of walking off like that. For a supervillain that just conquered the United States, Stark doesn't seem to be doing a very good job of things.
Secondly, I always got the feeling that Civil War wasn't so much a story as 7 issues of exposition to setup the "new status quo" for the Marvel Universe. It had an "ending" in the sense that they finished setting up the new status quo and had to have some way to end the inetvitable trade paperback collection, but everything I read about the series made it seem pretty clear that there wasn't really any kind of "story" in it that we could expect to be resolved, just setup for the next year or two of Marvel's output.
Maybe Stark knows that that smart move there is just to let Jen vent a little. I imagine he was thinking:
"Ooh, a lawyer, I'm scared. I'm a *CEO*, remember? I've dealt with corporate raiders who'd eat you for breakfast."
Maybe he was fearful for a moment from seeing what he had become ...