Civil War - Front Line #9 - Marvel

This book tells the Civil War story, from the outside looking in. Sally and Ben are trying to figure out what's really going on behind the scenes. Sally has worked out a little exclusive with Cap, but she's not getting the answers she wanted. "Cap promised me 15 minutes. I took five. And left early for my date at nine . . . . feeling pretty hacked off, and with no particular story to write. Couldn't work out why." Ben is working a different angle with Peter. He was told that the whole thing was a set up to make money for someone. Their first, and most obvious, suspicion is Tony Stark. They hack in to his computers, and find out that he made a whole bunch of money, 2 days before the act was put into effect. Insider trading, maybe? So, with the Cap angle not panning out, Sally has dinner with her detective friend, Danny. She's trying to get him to get her in with Osborne for a few minutes. It'll probably work, because Danny's pretty smitten with her. And finally we see, inside Avengers tower, that Reed is getting suspicious also, because someone who knew what they were doing had to get in to reprogram the nanites that he and Tony had planted in Norman. Tony tells hims in confidence that he knows who the traitor is. It's . . . . . . . . . . . all for this issue. We then see Robbie Baldwin getting taken into his new home, the Raft. A maximum security prison. The prisoners, knowing how the guards do transfers, want to use his arrival as a distraction for an escape attempt. What they don't know it that Robbie has some kind of new power. It seems to be activated when he's under extreme stress. So when they hurt him, he flashes and takes them all out. The guards are trying to figure out what happened, when the find Robbie sitting in his cell. Alone, and with some lights or electricity bursting around him, he says "Been doing a lot of thinking. About the registration act, I've come to a decision. Where do I sign?" We then see the police dept. trying to interrogate Norman, before the FBI come to pick him up. But he's more afraid of the person he's working for, than going to jail. Other than that, they don't get anything out of him. And then the FBI comes and takes him away. And finally we get to read the letter of a man who served in world war two. I don't know how long this series is going to go on, but I do like it. The Civil War thing though, seems like it's starting to drag. Maybe they'll wrap it up this year. We'll see.