Civil War

By: Stuart Moore, Marvel

Narrated by: Richard Rohan

Length: 6 hrs and 20 mins

Publisher's summary

Iron Man and Captain America are two core members of the Avengers, the world's greatest superhero team. But when a tragic battle blows a hole in the city of Stamford, killing hundreds of people, the US government demands that all superheroes unmask and register their powers. To Tony Stark - Iron Man - it's a regrettable but necessary step. To Captain America, it's an unbearable assault on civil liberties.

This GraphicAudio® Production is adapted from the graphic novel by Mark Millar and Steve McNiven.

©2019 Marvel (P)2019 Marvel

Very engaging and fun, but prefer movie

I knew the 2016 Marvel Civil War movie was based on a comic run and listening to this audiobook is the closest I've ever come to that original source material. This is a far more expanded universe with many, many more characters than were featured in the movie including the Fantastic Four, The Young Avengers and the X-Men. This audiobook focuses far more on the details of the Hero Registration Act, the positions of numerous characters and on the actual morals, whereas the movie more simplifies it down to the problem with Bucky Barnes. On the one hand getting into the details of a far more expanded world feels very interesting and gratifying, but for a non-comic person I was disappointed with the ending not really offering a resolution or a truce, and the sheer vast amount of characters became overwhelming. The movie was able to provide an acceptable resolution by making the core of the film about Bucky, but here, it is entirely vague as to what exactly happens to the vast majority of those characters and no real middle ground has been reached by the end. In the movie I felt the argument was a little more well balanced with both sides being right in their own way without either becoming villainous, whereas in this audiobook, even though Cap does kind of lose his way a bit, Tony Stark and Maria Hill are most definitely mesnt to be portrayed as facist villains. The audiobook ultimately felt incomplete by the end, with Cap learning a much more valuable lesson than Tony.

Sue Storm was definitely the character who stole the show with her devastatingly tragic and personal character arc, with Spider-Man a close second. Their voice performances are by far the most intense and engaging. Cap's voice actor performed well but seemed very miscast. All the others were suitable.

I also wish far more attention had been given to both the Tigra and Hawkeye subplots, as their actions seemed very out of character.

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Also, the fake Thor seemed especially ludicrous and unnecessary, and very obviously was there to serve as an instrument to bring about the one noteworthy hero casualty without directly getting blood on the hands of an actual functioning character. I think it would have been far more interesting had an individual with a moral compass caused the accidental death.

I highly recommend this regardless. It was an especially fun listen.

Well written and sound quality was great.

The sound effects and great voice actors were very well recorded & made the audio book much more enjoyable.

Good job!

I enjoyed this adaptation of the graphic novel- I hope they make more of these!

I had my doubts about "audio" comics but it's great!

They really went the extra mile. Each character narrated by different actors and actresses. Each giving a performance that brings forth a personality to each character. A good balance of narrative script and character dialogue. I tried this after liking the audio version of secret wars. I've read the actual comics and which made this experience better I'm sure. But the secret wars one, I've never read and I still enjoyed the audio book very much. I hope they come out with many more.

Great book!!!

I don’t often write reviews but I need to say this. I LOVED that each character had their own person reading their lines!!! Audible should do this for ALL their fictional books with multiple characters in them.

Loved it

I really enjoyed the listen. I like the format. The performances were great. Loved it.

I loved it!

I loved it! I have always enjoyed this comic run. I’m glad more people can hear it now.

Nice take, totally enjoyable

Tony, Peter, and Sue Richards shine in this adaptation. Steve’s bitterness seemed a bit too on point, his view not quite shining through as well as Tony’s. Overall a great story, well acted with kudos to narrator Rohan.

Like a Cliff’s Notes of the Full Arc

This is a fun and simple take on the Civil War arc that allows you to not have to read like 200 comics.

Solid

Things like the background sound design really amplified my listening experience. This is exactly what I want from an audiobook