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Post by Nutcase65 on Mar 21, 2007 22:45:05 GMT -5
What exactly is this?
Is it a comic story? Or is it like another one of those handbook deals? I order my new books online, so before I order it if someone could give me a heads up I'd appreciate it.
Thanks
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Post by Tone-Loc on Mar 21, 2007 22:53:02 GMT -5
I just put a note about this in the checklist thread for W, I figured he would have the skinny on it. It's only $3.99, which is average price right? But is a 64 pager. www.marvel.com/catalog/?id=6031----------------------------------- COVER BY: ED MCGUINNESS WRITER: ANTHONY FLAMINI RONALD BYRD PENCILS: SCOTT KOLINS INKS: SCOTT KOLINS COLORED BY: THE STORY: The final shots have been fired. The Civil War has ended. A victor has emerged. Now, S.H.I.E.L.D. has prepared the BATTLE DAMAGE REPORT, an intelligence dossier assessing the impact of the war and the dangers the nation still faces. BATTLE DAMAGE REPORT provides a closing chapter to CIVIL WAR and a glimpse of the new status quo of the Marvel Universe! 64 PGS./Rated T+ …$3.99 PRICE: 3.99 IN STORES: 2007-03-21 IMPRINT: MARVEL UNIVERSE (What's this?) FORMAT: COMIC |
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Post by Nutcase65 on Mar 22, 2007 5:24:24 GMT -5
Want I want to know is this? Remember at the start of the whole thing, they had that one issue, don't remember what it was called, that lissted who was on what side and was laid it in a handbook of the Marvel Universe format.
I want to know if this is one of those. Or if there is an actual story.
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Post by Tone-Loc on Mar 22, 2007 11:38:22 GMT -5
Grabbed this off of CBR... www.comicbookresources.com/columns/?column=22Civil War Damage Report (Marvel Comics)
Jump from the Read Pile. Let's say that you skipped the entirety of Civil War, but you'd still like to know what happened, but don't have the desire to spend on all the back issues nor the patience to read through 'em all. Well, screw all that -- in the voice of Tony Stark, a guy who was there for most of it (but oddly doesn't know that the Punisher whacked a lot of guys like Armadillo and the Gibbon -- a villain whose identity vexed this column some weeks ago -- at a wake for Stilt Man) recounts everything he knows to the President in one sweeping summary. Most interesting to note are the off-panel things we didn't see, like conferences held by European and African rulers respectively to discuss the relevance of the SHRA. Princess Zanda, T'Challa, M'Baku and Moses Magnum all sitting across a table from one another? Where's that one shot? Le Peregrine punching US expatriates from the skies for trying to hide in France? Really? Despite a few typos (perhaps this was a smidge late getting to press, as it was solicited for a February release) you can get caught up on everything from war profiteering to interdimensional snafus, all presented in Stark's smug but knowledgeable diction. There are some weird moments -- Class 10 strength, for example, is listed as being three and seven tons at different points, and even the comic admits that characters like Doc Samson and Luke Cage have had wildly varying strength levels over the years. The more you read about decisions like Osborn and the Thunderbolts or literally losing scores of mildly dangerous anti-reg types, or even thinking Jericho Drumm could even stand in the same zip code as Stephen Strange ... maybe Stark's not that smart. Fascinating stuff. |
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Post by balok on Mar 22, 2007 13:24:36 GMT -5
Has it reached this? We now have comics prepared as executive summaries of mini-series events? Sigh. Evidently Marvel's goal is to see just how much blood there is in that stone.
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Post by thew40 on Mar 22, 2007 22:00:43 GMT -5
Nah. It's more along the lines of the "Civil War Files," just basically up-dating the profiles on the character's "Civil War" activities. It also lists more characters than the "Civil War Files" one-shot.
~W~
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Post by Yellowjacket on Mar 23, 2007 4:19:29 GMT -5
Nah. It's more along the lines of the "Civil War Files," Which was an astonishingly good read. I hope BDR will be equally enjoyable. |
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Post by Nutcase65 on Mar 23, 2007 8:51:00 GMT -5
thanks W, that's what I was wondering.
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Post by Doctor Doom on Mar 24, 2007 5:28:43 GMT -5
Battle Damage Report actually backs up many of my points in our argument, Balok. In scanning the initial page alone it is clearly and canonically stated that-
-Tony Stark is the head of the Presidential Super Hero Task Force and has been throughout the civil war.
- The defininition of Superhuman for the law's purposes is much more clearly stated
-SHIELD is an international agency and Tony Stark's appointment was agreed on my a majority of "Signatory nations" at the President's recommendation.
It's also indicated further that FSI control is being swapped over to America since it's as Presidential Super Hero Task Force Chairman that he prepares the report, not as Director of SHIELD.
I recommend this to everyone as it has a lot of stuff that SHOULD have been in more CW tie-ins- a comprehensive enough list of international reactions, adding to the information we already know.
Oh, and one in-joke I loved- the Japanese people thank the ascendancy of the Fantastic Four for bringing an end to the giant monster attacks that plagued Japan for decades. Reference to the mosnter comic prevalence at Marvel before FF was first published, anyone?
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