I love it, but.... - Rated 
Let's juts start at the beginning here, awesome story, great art. It's all here, the characters, the humour (at least from Spidey), the iconic images (Captain America surfing a fighter jet anyone?) I love this book, but I do have a few reservations. For a start what we have here is an X Men plot without the X men. Charles Xavier and Magneto have been replaced by Captain America and Iron Man, even if it is more like Magneto vs Magneto. I'm still not sure if the X men parallels are a bad thing though, X men works well because of that conflict. My next problem is also character related, I just feel that few of my favourites just don't get enough screen time, Daredevil for example, but I feel I may be splitting hairs here.
As a whole though, this book works so well, a consummate page turner that I read in one sitting, a bargain at the price and a worthy addition to any collection. Buy it, read it, and enjoy!
Who's side are you on? - Rated
When I first heard about this book, I was very excited and after reading the first issue I wanted more. Its one of the best story lines I've ever read. Not only is the story awesome, but the artwork is amazing. Some of the fight scenes were amazing aswell, all your favourite heroes beating the living daylight out of each other.
I was so excited reading this, I really wanted one team to win. It wasn't like reading a normal story with heroes and villans, it was pretty much just heroes.
This was another great job done by the writer Mark Millar.
I recommend this to anyone who loves superheroes, reads comics or is just getting into comics. I'd also recommend this to anyone who loves a good story.
A heroes tale for our age - Rated 
First of all, I'm not a huge Marvel Universe fan, but I was intrigued by this and could not put it down once I had started.
This is a fantastic story, politically relevant, daring, not afraid of it's past and beautifully put together.
In this post 9/11 age, the thought of people putting underpants over their trousers and saving the world has seemed rather...pathetic. But, like Batman Begins, we are offered something very different. Superheroes with a conscience, a political ideal and most importantly, with human flaws.
This was most telling in one of many of Tony Strak's speeches when trying to convince his band of Avengers that registering was the future, he continually used the past and referred to it as a different age. We know this in reality, the 1940's is a long time ago, but in the world of popular comics things have not changed so drastically until this publication. This gave us real tragedy, war, politics and hate.
I loved what this story was talking about, I was gripped by the idea of registration epsecially when it is so relevant in the UK with ID cards. The Big Brother state moving into the Marvel universe suddenly makes these characters real and the producers of this work need congratulating on a bold and gripping novel.
More of the same please.
Good art but woeful stuff - Rated 
I stopped reading Marvel in the late 80s/early 90s. With all the reprints etc I've been tempted back recently. Avengers Disassembled was great and House of M better, but I always was more of an X-Men fan than Avengers. Brian Michael Bendis is a talented writer, sadly Mark Millar is not.
Thin parodies of regular Marvel characters rob this of any drama. Compare Millar's writing for the Fantastic Four with anyone else's, in particular this Reed Richards. One dimensional is being generous. Spiderman also seems to be an entirely different character and I could go on. Now ok, I've missed a lot of what's happened in the last 15 odd years but not all the current Marvel titles are this badly written.
The plot is yet another rehash that has it's roots in Days of Future Past. Is it too much to ask for some originality? Everyone's got to be licensed or their forced underground and hunted down? Clarement and Byrne knocked that out in a compact two issues. Here we are years later and we've gotten no further. I hope Millar is paying Clarement and Byrne for this shameless knock off. I won't go too near the story catalyst of blowing up a school full of small children, it's just so pathetic.
I feel sorry for the artist who does a good job and is the recipient of the one star. Dealing with so many characters can't have been easy and he does it wonderfully. But the hackneyed plot, the terrible script, the now standard death, and the self important sense of "an event" have to take away the other four stars.
Awesome turning point in the Marvel Universe but... - Rated 
The story is awesome, its been in the papers with the number of shockers etc that have been leaked in the press. However, thanks to that the story has suffered from overhyping. I read this with high expectations and was slightly disappointed. Although i left the story intrigued by what could lie ahead i have to warn those who consider purchasing it: If you have heard the hype and have expectations. Ignore them or you will be expecting something even more massive than it already is.
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