The Marvel Civil War is an epic event that takes place after a team of superheroes accidentally cause a disaster which results in the deaths of hundreds of people. The government passes the Superhuman Registration Act into law so that all powered or costumed heroes can be governed and kept in check. Iron Man and others back the law, feeling they need to be held accountable for their actions. Meanwhile, Captain America leads a resistance against the law, which brings the two sides into conflict w...

It's ok? Same with V2. This one starts really well, super interesting and loved the background of what was going on during the Civil War (and before it) but nothing really takes off. You get the feeling they wanted to profit off how successful the Civil War was, but didn't really have any room to make any big changes or strong reveals. So the story just kinda putts along. Barely giving you anything, but giving you just enough to peak your interest.

Wow. I honestly didn't expect much from this which is probably why I rated it four stars instead of three.So this story primarily follows news reporters during the Civil War event. Sally Floyd is pretty adamantly anti-registration while Ben Urich starts off as pro-registration but begins to waver when (view spoiler)[ he suspects that Tony is using villains to hunt down anti-reg heroes. (hide spoiler)]This does mainly focus on Sally and Ben, but it also followed some heroes from various sides fo...

I am about 40% through this storyline and it’s mostly not great. It’s not that the writing or the art is bad, in fact I think the people working on this story are making it work pretty well. But overall - and Front Line is a perfect microcosm of this - the event just doesn’t have a specific enough angle on the issue, or even a clear idea of what the issue is. All the questions are genuinely interesting, but the answers are continually vague - and when they aren’t vague, they’re straight up wrong...

Mainly about the start of super registration act and Speedball's role in it. See Nitro and Stamford.

By far one of the best of the Civil War collections.

Another gem in the Civil War storyline, Front Line follows two reporters investigating the conflict, and Speed Ball, as he is put on trial. The scenes with Speed Ball are chilling, in many ways he is oblivious, naive, but many of the points he sullenly makes are also not wrong. Even with this in mind he is beaten, mistreated, and jailed without any sort of sentencing. THis highlights the horror of a security state. I have already reviewed the second volume of this, and honestly similar things ap...

It's a pretty fluent and interesting comic book from Marvel's Civil War event. And the greatest common factor is each issue has four different short stories. We see reporters Sally Floyd and Ben Urich's two opposite impressions about Superhuman Registration Act in the first part. The second part tells Robert Baldwin's story after Stamford incident. And two stories show rights and wrongs of both sides. The third part tells effects of SRA on superheroes. And the fourth part tells a different civil...

Lot of story, light on action. Cool job with the parallels with history and what is going on in the book though.

I'm reading this event according to the official Marvel Civil War reading recommendation list as seen on their website here:https://www.marvel.com/comics/discove...This is the next collection that I finished throughout this reading list. I had a little trouble with this at first because I didn't know the characters/situations very well and there wasn't lead up or a lot of explanation. However, I found this to be increasingly more interesting the more I read. We get to see both sides of the issue...

If you're following the Civil War issues, Front Line is the series that comes in between each Civil War issue. Does that make sense? It's confusing sometimes how these comic book series work.Anyways, moving on. I was, surprisingly, underwhemed by the book. I liked how the story. It majorly follows two reporters trying to get a story about the Stamford incident and also the Superhero legislation. Did I like the way it was told?Yes, I did.Did I like the illustrations?Yes, they wer're good.But you

Front Line takes it all from a different angle, the outsider's perspective, and as much as I would rather read through the eyes of the beloved characters it is insightful. And everything hurts.

I enjoyed the connections this makes between different Civil War story lines and the juxtaposition between other wars and this one was interesting. I didn't care for all the story lines, though. There are enough cliff hangers to want to read the second volume, though!

One of the more interesting story arc's of the big Civil War story line in Marvel.

I have to admit that every book I've read or even glanced at, I've been persuaded by other people into reading. Not that they hold me down and tell me to read this or die. Or hold me at gunpoint and that if I don't read the first fifty pages they'll put one between the eyes. But I read reviews, all the time, almost twenty if I can, just to get a feel for what the community is thinking about.What I don't normally read are comic books, especially mainstream where the characters are revived every f...

The inclusion of material from various wars & conflicts, juxtaposed with various events within the Marvel Universe was unexpected, but ultimately effective.

Civil War was my introduction to Marvel comics and Earth-616 continuity. Mark Millar's prototypical shock and awe narrative which sacrificed character continuity for action set-pieces has not aged particularly in my eyes, but I remember 'Civil War: Front Line' receiving much higher praise as it sought to provide a more nuanced take on the heroes vs. heroes slugfest.While there is more political nuance and certainly smarter characters, 'Front Line' still suffers from the original flaws of 'Civil

I love the whole series of Civil War so far. There are a few I haven't gotten to yet. Each is a compilation of the individual comic books and are written and drawn from the perspective of the character(s) in the titles If you love Marvel and the MCU but don't think you'd enjoy "comic books," let these prove you wrong. Graphic novels are seen as slightly less nerdy "out there," so if you have some form of social anxiety and are concerned about your level of nerdiness, think of these as graphic no...

This almost put me to sleep. I don't think I'm going to read vol. 2 of this. There was way too much focus on the reporters and it felt like almost nothing happened. The only good part was Speedball's story line.

This was my third reading in the Civil War series. I’m choosing to read individual TPBs vs. individual issues. It’s easier for me as a casual comics reader / being new to comics.Of the three TPBs I’ve read so far in the series to date, this had the deepest story, and seeing it from the eyes of journalists with a post Patriot Act undercurrent was compelling. I’m eager to read the second volume, esp. to see the outcome of both Ben’s and Sally’s different approaches to uncovering the nuances and se...