When it comes to event comics, the tie-ins are often better than the main title but in this case Civil War II: Fallout is definitely crappier.
Heads up: if you haven’t read the main event and are planning to, there are plenny of spoilers in this book and review so fair warning!
The three-part Ulysses story by Al Ewing was the best part of the volume. It reads like Ewing had fun writing the gleefully unpleasant Karnak as he mentors Ulysses in harnessing his new powers. Also, the Tower of Wisdom is full of very peculiar characters who are enjoyably weird. Like everything in this book, it’s unnecessary fluff but it held my attention.
Then we’re into the dregs: Marc Guggenheim’s The Accused is about Hawkeye’s trial for killing Bruce Banner; Daredevil is prosecuting. No part of it is the least bit interesting. The Fallen is indulgent, sentimental crap about Banner’s death that’s impossible to care about because every superhero dies and every superhero gets resurrected - Banner/Hulk are on their way back soon, I promise you.
The volume closes out with Nick Spencer’s The Oath which is tediously overwritten like most of Spencer’s Marvel stuff and is purely about underlining the largely unpopular storyline of Cap being a Hydra agent which most readers are already aware of.
None of these stories has any real bearing on Civil War II nor do they enhance the main event in any significant way - they exist purely to make some extra bucks off of Marvel fans. I recommend checking out the main story instead which isn’t bad (very surprising given the usual quality of event books!) and is definitely more entertaining than this pointless spinoff.
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