Tuesday, October 17, 2006

Civil War : Front Line #6 - Marvel

Another great installment in this series. We have our ongoing story about Ben Urich and Sally Floyd. Both are equally dedicated at getting at and reporting the truth, but both have different ways of going about it. Which is probably why they make such a good team. There's like this automatic check and balance there when the two are working together. Anyways, Ben is stuck because Robbie wants him to work on the War storyline, but Ben wants to figure out what's going on with the Goblin, because he, and his family, was directly threatened by him. So, Jonah fires him and he's ready to leave. Robbie however talks him in to staying, by letting him cover the War story how he wants. If he wants to go at it through the Goblin connection, fine, as long as he reports it as witnessed and he expects nothing less than the truth. Sally, on the other hand, is stuck in a holding cell because of her involvment with the "Rebels". Her story ends with the Marshall and Mr. Fantastic offering her a deal. Ben is in the middle of the Melee at Oscorp and witnesses Goliath being taken down. Ben confronts Tony afterwards and really puts him on the spot. The hard hitting questions leaves Tony walking off with no comment, and Ben thinking, "I got you, Tony Stark. I got you. Hook, line and sinker." We then move on to Robbie Baldwin who is being moved to the holding facility in the negative zone. He's writting a letter to his mom, which is how we keep up with the history of the story. Mr. Fantastic feels for him and offers him an open hearing in Washington, to tell his side of the story. He goes there with Jen, She-Hulk, but of couse things aren't as anticipated. The final scene as they're going into the building looks like the image of the Lee Harvey Oswald shooting. Next we look in again at the story about the shop owner who was a sleeper agent. For Atlantis apparently. Wonder Man is ordered to follow him, which leads him to a warehouse of more Atlanteans, and heavily armed ones at that. Finally we get to review a poem from WWII and see the images of how that war compares to the current one. I really like the way this mini shows the War from the "everyman's" point of view. Very sombering.

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