Civil War Script Book

Civil War: A Marvel Comics Event #Script Book

by Mark Millar, Steve McNiven (Illustrator)

This companion volume reprints the complete scripts to 'Civil War' numbers one to seven - plus sketches, deleted scenes and more.

Genres: Comics, Graphic Novels, Marvel, Superheroes

208 pages, Paperback

First published December 12, 2007

About the author

Mark Millar is the New York Times best-selling writer of Wanted, the Kick-Ass series, The Secret Service, Jupiter’s Legacy, Jupiter’s Circle, Nemesis, Superior, Super Crooks, American Jesus, MPH, Starlight, and Chrononauts. Wanted, Kick-Ass, Kick-Ass 2, and The Secret Service (as Kingsman: The Secret Service) have been adapted into feature films, and Nemesis, Superior, Starlight, War Heroes, Jupiter’s Legacy and Chrononauts are in development at major studios.

His DC Comics work includes the seminal Superman: Red Son, and at Marvel Comics he created The Ultimates – selected by Time magazine as the comic book of the decade, Wolverine: Old Man Logan, and Civil War – the industry’s biggest-selling superhero series in almost two decades.

Mark has been an Executive Producer on all his movie adaptations and is currently creative consultant to Fox Studios on their Marvel slate of movies.

Reviews

[Sineala · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a compilation of the final drafts of the scripts of Civil War #1-7, with commentary by Mark Millar (the author) and Tom Brevoort (the editor who oversaw the entirety of the Civil War event). Also included is Millar's original pitch (with some editorial feedback) for Civil War and the original first draft of Civil War #1. I think it's worth reading for Marvel fans because there are a lot of cool behind-the-scenes details, and a lot of what could have happened instead is interesting -- like, the inciting event in the original is actually Happy Hogan's death rather than the Stamford incident, and the whole thing would have ended with Steve being deserumed rather than dead.

However, I will say that I paid about $5 for this including shipping, so I don't think it's the sort of priceless comics treasure that you should go out of your way to track down immediately. Just, you know, it's fun to have around and read and see how things could have been.

[Eric · Rating 4 out of 5]

I picked this up at Comic Con for cheap. Its actually pretty interesting seeing the behind the scenes on Civil War and I didn't read it the first time.

[Templehurst · Rating 2 out of 5]

At least I saw how much worse the Civil War arc could have been....Hulk babies? Urgh.