Mere days before 2016 comes to a close , Marvel ’s “ summer ” event series Civil War II has unfreeze its last issue . But Civil War II was n’t break to go down without at least add up a few more turn to the future of the Marvel Universe … and oh boy , did it summate some .
Not a stack really happen in Civil War II # 8 — by Brian Michael Bendis , David Marquez , Clayton Cowles , and Justin Ponsor , with Edgar Albert Guest art from Esad Ribic , Adam Kubert , Leinel Francis Yu , Daniel Acuna , Alan Davies , Mark Farmer , Marco Rudy , Mark Bagley , and John Dell — that we did n’t already expect blend in in . Althoughthe last issue ’s burgeoning scrapbetween Captain Marvel and Iron Man was n’t quite what we thought it was , it might as well have been , give that the combat does n’t last much longer before Carol takes out Tony , in front of heroes and TV tv camera alike :
So Tony Stark is numb . For now . Sort of . We ’ll get to that after seeing the net issuing ’s other wrapper - up point : the “ death ” of Ulysses , the future - predicting Inhuman who sound off the whole event off ( who could manifestly never stay put around permanently in the Marvel universe grant his powers ) . essentially , he evolve into a high consciousness , take his place alongside the legendary cosmic type Eternity as part of the fabric of existence himself .
Ulysses “ go ” as he inhabit , sort of pointlessly but while also serve up as a handily teaser - y patch dot for Marvel to fire “ possible time to come ” ( each , rather neatly , draw by a unlike artist ) for the comedian universe of discourse . Those came in the form of nebulous visual sensation , or , in some cases , straight up teases for existent coming cartoon strip events likeMonsters Unleashed …
… orInhumans vs. cristal - Men .
The more cloudy visions are by far the most interesting — with one hinting that the potentialfatal brawl between Miles Morales and Steve Rogerscould still happen , another teasing the retort of Ultron , and a third offering a futurity where it appears Odinson has retrieve the use of Mjolnir and is once again Thor . But , like basically anything Ulysses actually did in Civil War II , they ’re lacking in any form of substance or context for us as readers to give care about them . Ulysses has n’t really done anything other than wait on as a accelerator for Tony and Carol to have an ill - conceived argument , and now he ’s just up and vanished off into the cosmic ether .
So what remains ? Well , Civil War II # 8 has one more “ whoremaster ” up its sleeve to reveal with the fate of Tony Stark , now that Ulysses is conveniently out of the way . For the retiring few months , we ’ve been told that Tony Stark is dead — or at least that while his mind live on as an A.I. , his soundbox is gone for unspoiled . But Civil War II # 8 show us that that is very much not the case .
Whatever procedure Tony did to turn his cognizance into an A.I.—onenow in the hands of his successor , Riri Williams — also involved doing something to his body that essentially leaves him in a comatoseness , under the watchful eye of Hank McCoy and SHIELD . They ’re presently too frightened to do anything but keep the barely - still - active Tony in stasis , but it means that Civil War II ’s biggest crook is n’t actually that big at all .
It ’s the latest in a long line of handily cheap comic Holy Scripture “ deaths ” that treat the afterlife as little more as a revolving threshold . It ’s a “ gotcha ! ” second that allow you more peeved than intrigued , because we already know what it means for the hereafter of Marvel ’s comics : Tony Stark will be able to come back as Iron Man moderately much whenever it suits Marvel — possibly , perhaps , just in clip for a certain upcoming Avengers picture show . It casts a shadow over everything Riri Williams is presently doing in Invincible Iron Man , because the specter of “ unwrap glass to renovate Tony Stark ” hangs over that serial in the linguistic context we have now .
For a serial that has been about look at possible future , in the closing Civil War II trust on the worst tricks of the past — both in terms ofits predecessor , the original Civil War , and the superhero comics ’ ever - lengthening history of “ kill off ” fictitious character for chintzy flush .
In the last battle between Carol Danvers and Tony Stark , the real loser was the audience .
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