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A Few Unanswered Questions From Civil War II #8 – And Is Bendis Really Writing Against Marvel Films, Disney And Kevin Feige? (SPOILERS)

So what did Tony Stark do to drive the Inhumans away? What did "she" do that was so terrible? Remember the Old Man Logan future we saw in earlier issues of Civil War II?

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But what did he do? Ulysses, you ask him.

A Few Unanswered Questions From Civil War II #8 – And Is Bendis Really Writing Against Marvel Films, Disney And Kevin Feige? (SPOILERS)

Was that Captain Marvel after all? How does this affect the Inhumans and turn the world into a wasteland?Is it something about Ulysses gaining cosmicdom – and given that now The Beyonder has been retconned as an Inhuman with reality changing powers and godhood, how many more Inhumans are destined to tread that path? And who will it be revealed were Inhumans all along? Galactus? Eternity and Infinity? The Living Tribunal? The One Above All?

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Oh hey, isn't Eternity meant to be in chains right now?

And as Iron Man. Tony Stark. Not dead after all but in cybernetic hibernation of sorts.

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So if Captain Marvel isn't the woman who killed Tony Stark… why do people think he's dead?

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But there's something else in that final scene with The Beast and Captain Marvel which seems even more meta than this whole Civil War II series. And it goes like this.

Brian Bendis is a member of the Marvel Creative Committee, a team that Marvel Comics uses across the company to make sure that Marvel products and licenses in TV, games, toys and the like stay true to the essence of the comics brand.

They used to do the same to the films – indeed Brian Bendis wrote that final post-credits scene in Iron Man that kicked the road to the Avengers off. But, as longtime Bleeding Cool readers know, Kevin Feige split Marvel Films off from the rest of Marvel, instead reporting directly to Alan Horn over at Disney, and canning any influence, critique or notes from the MMC on the films, from Doctor Strange onwards.

The argument made to me by Marvel executives was that they didn't have an issue with Kevin Feige per se, he is a fine individual, steeped in Marvel, who knows the comics well, even if his influence is now a little more insular. But the big problem they could see was whoever came after Feige, whichever Disney suit would be dropped into the role when Feige eventually stepped down. And from that point, from Marvel Comics' point of view, the film line would be dead.

Well, let's see the argument that the Beast makes, to Carol Danvers, written by Bendis.

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Also, of course, Captain Marvel is the film that Kevin Feige pushed for. And Beast is an X-Man and an Avenger, but a character that only the comics side of Marvel can use, not the film side.

So it seems that, now, Captain Marvel is Kevin Feige, but only in a reality where Marvel Films gained cosmic awareness and took to the stars, rather than remain part of the Disney empire.

Maybe.

Have I gone too far with this one?

Civil War II #8 by Brian Bendis, David Marquez and friends is published today.


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Rich JohnstonAbout Rich Johnston

Founder of Bleeding Cool. The longest-serving digital news reporter in the world, since 1992. Author of The Flying Friar, Holed Up, The Avengefuls, Doctor Who: Room With A Deja Vu, The Many Murders Of Miss Cranbourne, Chase Variant. Lives in South-West London, works from Blacks on Dean Street, shops at Piranha Comics. Father of two. Political cartoonist.
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