If it were possible to give a rating lower than one star, I would slap that on this turd immediately. From the downright offensive comparisons to actual historical events and tragedies to the utter meandering mess of Robbie Baldwin’s fall from grace to the complete character assignations of both Tony Stark AND Steve Rogers...I hated this. I hated every dull, plodding, poorly pencilled, infuriatingly self-important page of it.

The idea of this is brilliant: reporters doing research, uncovering the behind the scenes stories of Civil War. The execution falls flat. The use of real war poems and stories starts cool but grows tiring, and the multiple storylines are sometimes hard to follow and a bit slow/dialogue heavy. I had trouble picking this back up to finish it.

There's a lot going on here, and a lot of promise. Ultimately, it fails to deliver. The interesting story with the reporters falls apart at the end when they both end up on the same side and decide to sit on their story. Speedball's storyline screeches to a halt when he very suddenly and without any real reason shifts his entire position 180 degrees. The Atlantean storyline is meaningless. And then there's the uncomfortable historical parallel stories, literally putting events in the Civil War s...

Full disclosure: I love wordy, expository comics where superheroes take off their masks and sit down to talk about politics and what life is like as a superhero.For me, this is the most important collection in the Civil War event. By telling the story through two newspaper journalists and relegating the superheroes to tertiary status, Frontlines connects the most dots and lays out the most details for the grand story-arch of Civil War. There isn't much action, but there is A LOT of explanation.....

I see a lot of people complaining that this tie-in is very focused on exposition and doesn't have enough action. However, that's mostly why I loved it so much. Paul Jenkins is a masterful writer, really drawing us into the emotional side of the conflict and crafting what I consider to be a very cool narrative. Speedball's character development was really well written as well. This is my favorite of all the Civil War tie-in trades.

There's a main story that works through a Norman Osborn/Ben Urich/sassy reporter of the week triad. It's fine. The whole big reveal that (view spoiler)[ Tony Stark was working everyone (hide spoiler)] makes him into a legit supervillain, which is not how it was played in the book. When people have been mad at him, it's been an "honorable serious disagreement sort of mad.The segments where Civil War battles are mocked up next to American wars don't work. They're trying awfully hard but it seems l...

It's fine. It's very hung up on how important it is, but despite that pretentiousness, some parts are executed remarkably well. Sally Lloyd is a great character. Ben Urich is... fine. The big twist at the end was ridiculous, but the Speedball arc was great.It will make very little sense if you haven't already read Civil War.

I had been meaning to read this for a while. This is really where the meat of Civil War is. This is where all of its effects are explored more intimately. I really do love Jenkins' writing, I've loved everything of his I've read. He manages to make lots of political statements very tastefully, and really gets deep into some of the intricacies of the Superhuman Registration Act. This comprises of 4 different stories (issues are about 33 pages). The first story following Ben Urich and Sally Floyd

Looks like my review got deleted or I forgot to write one. Frontline are usually my favorites of the "events" series. This one was no exception.

Amazing. So far the best one of the series. I could not put it down. They way that it mixed politics, the media, and the law was perfect. If you only read one from the series this would be the one to pick up.

This book had a lot going for it--the idea of the reporters and their investigation was interesting, the Civil War as backdrop was good, and the "secret behind the Civil War," ready to be discovered, is of course engrossing. But the book didn't capitalize on all of this properly. The main story sort of plods along; it has good discussions but not enough ends up mattering. The back-up story with Speedball/Penance was good until he suddenly reverses his position halfway through for no discernible

A bit bitty but good fun

While I liked the idea of Civil War told from a journalists perspective, the story jumped around a little too much for my taste.

I really loved the Frontline comics from the 'Civil War' series. Acting as a mouthpiece for the writers as well as for many readers, the series filled in missing gaps and essential nuggets of information left out in the rest of the Civil War imprints. The series follows two reporters attempting to navigate and report on the insane new world they've got caught up in. Add to this mysterious deaths and police investigations, the sheer impact of the Civil War on the citizens of the Marvel Universe c...

I have to say I'm a bit underwhelmed by this. I was so excited to read this but felt my excitement fading away slowly as I progressed.I mostly liked the issues about the reporters because this story gave more insight to the behind-the-scenes of the Civil War, but I didn't really care for the other issues. This book is very text-heavy which can get exhausting to read at times, and with English not being my native language I sometimes had a hard time wrapping my mind around all the politics involv...

All these tie-ins are just a scam to get more money for the civil war event, it offers a silly illustrations and cheap stories.

Do you know what these Civil War: Front Line volumes are? They’re Marvel backing up the Info-dump truck and dropping off the plot line chatter that they can’t fit into the comic books with, you know, action. Graphic novels (Maus) and even super hero graphic novels (Kingdom Come, Watchmen) are capable of grand ideas and concepts, but when you have pages and pages of exposition it just becomes a tedious read.You have Ben Urich and Sally Floyd (advice to Sally: never a good idea to wear revealing c...

I might come back and revise this later. I don't know, I am so confused about a number of things (and I guess my feelings in general). The reporters and whole "getting the story" and "blowing everything wide open" etc. was really interesting.... until it wasn't. I just don't know how I feel about Tony Stark's involvement and how everything was concluded. I want to think that they didn't portray the character right, nothing felt right. Like I said.... I don't know.

Reprints Civil War: Front Line #1-11 (July 2006-November 2007). The New Warriors televised attempt to take down a group of superheroes in Stamford, Connecticut has led to disaster. Nitro exploded and destroyed a large portion of the town including a school full of children. Now as the battle lines are drawn between Iron Man who is pushing for superhero regulation and Captain American who believes secret identities should be allowed, reporters Ben Urich and Sally Floyd are writing about the encou...

I started Front Line after reading the main Civil War event, followed by the Avengers, Fantastic Four and Spider-Man tie-in collections. Those were all excellent, and I expected the same here. Unfortunately, I found this one disappointing.There are three main arcs in the book. The first is Embedded which follows two news reporters “on the ground” throughout the event. One of them, Ben Urich, will show up later in an Embedded storyline for the Siege event. Both reporters start out in opposition t...