Like many of the non-classic What If? collections, the title of this trade is rather misleading. Only one of the issues collected here has to do with the Marvel Civil War; the rest deal with such events as Annihilation, Planet Hulk, and the Shi'ar Empire. A couple of these events are several years old, so if you're new to comics, you might not have heard of them.

The Civil War one shot is pretty good, and it shows what could have happened if Tony had actually talked to Steve about what his plans were and they had come to an agreement. I kind of like how it zings Tony, who is standing over Cap's grave at that point, but then again, I'm a Cap fangirl. ;)

The Planet Hulk issues were also really good. One is bittersweet, one is rather cute, and there's a one-page strip that's funny.

The latter half of the book I didn't care a thing about, so I just flipped through those issues.

The art is hit or miss, since so many worked on these issues. There's one issue illustrated by Larry Stroman, who is quite possibly the worst artist in Marvel's employ. But there's also some good art to be found in the trade, as well. ( )

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