Spider-man Unmasked

I was just watching the rebroadcast of Attack Of The Show and they said that Marvel Comics is doing something huge. This year's big storyline is Civil War. Here are the basics. (The info, as well as a summary to date, can be found here.

During a televised raid of a house containing select villains that had recently escaped from the super villain facility at Ryker's Island prison during a massive breakout, the escaped villain Nitro let off a massive explosion that killed the majority of the New Warriors, as well as the children at a nearby elementary school. In the wake of the tragedy, the U.S. Government proposed the Superhuman Registration Act, intending to register all super-powered beings as living weapons of mass destruction and requiring all costumed heroes to unmask themselves before the government and subject themselves to federally mandated standards.


This event triggered negative public opinion against the super-heroes, resulting in the Human Torch (Johnny Storm) being assaulted by a mob and Captain America (Steve Rogers) being propositioned by S.H.I.E.L.D. to become part of the enforcement of super heroes to register. When he refused, S.H.I.E.L.D. Director Maria Hill ordered S.H.I.E.L.D.'s Anti-Superhuman Response Unit to tranquilize him, but Rogers escaped and went underground.

The biggest news today is in Civil War #2, where Spider-Man reveals his identity to the public! This is huge! It should be interesting to see how this plays out.

In a related note, hopefully he will go back tot he classic costume. The new one looks stupid.