Comic review: Civil War (2015) #1- The hour is late, but freedom is still an option

Writer: Charles Soule
Artist: Leinil Francis Yu
Publisher: Marvel (Disney)
Released: 8th July 2015



If, like myself, you felt that the ending of Mark Millar’s Civil War arc was a massively anti-climatic letdown (Captain America surrendered because he didn’t want people to get hurt) then this version of Civil War will be right up your comic book alley.

In this book, Cap doesn’t surrender. The war continues, with the ‘nation’ split in two. On one side (The Iron) is the progressively totalitarian Iron Man, with laws made by him (because he knows best), you obey, or you go to jail. On the other side is Captain America’s ‘The Blue’ where freedom and individuality reigns, and the collectivist co-ordinator class is stripped of their authoritarian big brother powers:

‘Captain America made a land with only two laws. Hurt no one, and help where you can.’

Wouldn’t it be nice if we had the option to choose between the two in the real world? As it is, we are living in the authoritarian ‘Iron,’ with the ‘authorities’ telling us what we can and cannot do (see the drug laws) because they know best. There is a battle going on, but it’s a battle for power, not a battle for freedom. It’s a red and blue struggle for authoritarian control.

Politics is a battle between authoritarian personality types; to be the ‘expert’ telling everybody else how they should or should not live their lives.

What is happening right now in the west is that the totalitarian mindset of the old right has now switched to the new left. The mindset has not changed, it’s still about control, still about telling people what is best for them, and what is bad for them, and what they can and cannot do.

We now have a situation where social justice warriors (young Marxists straight out of university and loaded up with feminist rhetoric) are trying to enact social change around issues of sexuality, gender and race. All they want is control. They are ‘educated’ and they know best, so they are the ones who will tell us what we can or cannot think, do or say. They want ‘change’ but not real change. All they really want is for you to obey them, to do exactly what they say, they are the experts, they know best.

This collectivist nonsense is all wrapped up in ‘social justice’ but the bottom line is the same. They want Iron Man totalitarianism, you must agree with them, and if you don’t, you will be arrested, thrown in jail, and silenced. It will be for the best, it will help maintain the collective, it will make the world a better place, because they say that it will, and they are right, and everybody else is wrong.

What social justice warriors really want is a communist society, with a mass of order following workers being dictated to and controlled by a select controller class (them), just as is happening today in the slave labour camp called China. SJW's are control freaks. They are the wannabe co-ordinator class of a politically correct communist hellhole. You must grovel, you must obey, and if you don’t you will be called a racist, sexist, homophobic bigot and be ostracised from the new totalitarian paradise that they are creating for all of us.

Sorry, big rant there, but that’s what you get here on my blog.

The original comic book Civil War had to end with a defeat for freedom, because that defeat reflects what is actually happening in America then, and today. Forget ‘conspiracies’ what is democracy, other than a competition between control freak authoritarian mind-sets, of people looking to control the top-down, centralised control system? That is what America is. That is what the UK is. That is what democracy is. Vote for a controller. If you don’t want a controller, tough luck, you’re going to get one anyway. And that isn’t even mentioning the controllers behind the political puppets, the controllers you elect who you don’t even get to see or hear about. That is democracy, and democracy is freedom, even though it’s not.

I enjoyed this book because it takes the defeat of freedom that happens in the original Civil War comic book and retells the end of the story, showing that an anarchist society (meaning freedom from the violent coercion of the state), and based on the no-harm principle, can actually work.

We all instinctively knew that Iron Man was the villain in Civil War, that his argument was weak, that it advocated slavery to government and that his idea of ‘order’ was fascism. But he won, and we all accept his idea of control and totalitarianism in our own lives, even though we know that it is wrong.

We demonstrate this when we go out to vote time after time after time for a new version of Iron Man to rule over us.  The option advocated by Captain America in this comic book, the idea that you should be free as long as you don’t harm anyone, is not available at the ballot box. You don’t get freedom through voting between an old or new slavemaster; of course you don’t, yet that’s what we do when we vote.

Civil War #1 then is a look at the possibility of freedom from a centralised control system, of experts, hen-pecking, telling us what we can and cannot do and say, and what is good or bad for us. It offers us the choice between freedom and tyranny that we should have in our real world, yet because of our acquiescence to government, fail to realise is even there.

Here’s a closely guarded secret that you won’t hear the pretty people on tell lie vision discuss. We do have a choice.  We don’t have to choose between a red or blue control system of henpecking authoritarian beaurucrats. In this comic book the choice is easy. Iron Man totalitarianism, or Captain America freedom and the no harm principal. However, in the real world that choice is hidden, with the corporate elite’s doing their best to hide it from us, and with social justice warrior twerps thinking they are making the world a better place, when all they are doing is maintaining the current paradigm of totalitarian control. Their change is stuck in the old control system paradigm, but the possibility of real change does exist.

There is a choice in the real world, as there is in this comic book, but the human slavery control system is not going to broadcast it from their propaganda ‘programming’ machines.

The choice is between voting for slavery, for control systems, or to abstain from voting altogether, to withdraw your consent to be governed. That’s the new paradigm, that’s the one thing that we all need to do en-masse in order to break free from the tyranny that has controlled and manipulated us for far too long.

Civil War #1 is a worthwhile comic book because it continues a story that had an unsatisfying ending, and because it reveals a truth about the society that we are living in today. The truth is that freedom exists, but it can only exist outside of a centralised control system called government.

Iron Man was the winner in the original Civil War, and Captain America was led away in handcuffs. In this version of Civil War, the battle for freedom continues, and just like in the real world, the struggle for independence, for genuine human emancipation from the tyrannical top down control system that is government never ends. Most fight for control, the few fight for individual freedom. Join the few, fight against collectivism, and fight to uphold the no harm principle as advocated by fictional heroes, and their real world counterparts as well.


Rating: 8/10 (Civil War lives again, and freedom is still an option)