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Marvel's Civil War II # 2

 By Mark Rodriguez

The Inhumans have discovered a young man with the power to have visions of the future. Tony Stark wonders about the ramifications of the heroes knowing about their future and acting upon it. When the Ultimates use Ulysses's visions to predict where Thanos will appear on Earth, they set out to stop him and the battle killed Rhodey. With the news of his death causing a devastating blow, Tony Stark sets out to find the kid. A severely injured She-Hulk tells Captain Marvel to stop him.

The issue opens with Iron Man trying to sneak into the Inhuman's home and kidnap Ulysses while he sleeps. Medusa finds him and strangles him with her hair until he passes out. Tony manages to send electricity through the hair back at Medusa sending her flying into a wall. The rest of the Inhumans arrive and Karnak is the first to attack.

Iron Man avoids his attacks, saying he knows about his ability to detect weaknesses in his opponents. He defeats him stating he doesn't have any. Crystal shoots lightning at him and blows him up. Beast points out that it was a decoy and the real Tony escaped with Ulysses. Human Torch asks if they should follow him. Crystal says it's too late, but as of now Iron Man has just declared war upon the Inhumans.

In the Triskelion, Mary Hill and Captain Marvel discuss these events. They would send SHIELD agents over at Stark Tower, but Tony wouldn't be there, and the Inhumans would be there already. Black Panther says that Iron Man has forced Medusa's hand, and the Inhumans aren't there to find Stark, they're there to stop Karnak from bringing the building down.

Sure enough they are at Stark Tower and a hologram tells them to leave before the authorities are called. Karnak threatens her and Johnny Storm tells him it's just a hologram and he's talking to nothing. Karnak is still determined to take the building down when Captain Marvel and the Ultimates arrive to stop them. Marvel says they will take care of things and stop Tony and return Ulysses to them. Medusa says one of theirs was taken, and the only thing they did was help and share their power with them. Captain Marvel says they all lost people today and asks for one chance to let them handle this.

Ulysses wakes up strapped to a chair with Tony in front of him. Tony is angry that the mission he sent him on cost him the life of James Rhodes. Ulysses is confused and says he never sent anyone anywhere. Tony has the kid's mind wired to his machines and says he wants to know how his visions work. The kid says he can't just make them and he can't control when he gets them.

Tony flicks him the forehead to see how his brain responds. Friday, Tony's A.I tells him of the result but needs more info. Before Tony can punch him, Friday detects that fear also works. Tony tells him that he wants to know how his powers work and will look anything related to his family and upbringing. He wants to know if the visions are true or if they affected by any kind of personal bias. Ulysses says all of this isn't fair and he could have just asked for these tests without all the kidnapping. Tony says he lost a friend to a mission he shouldn't have heard about and that isn't fair. One of the Iron Man drones detects intruders and Tony wonders how he was found.

Tony sees all the heroes heading his way and remembers that Beast is with the Inhumans which is how they knew where to look. Female Thor's hammer smashes through the wall as everyone arrives. As they argue about what Tony did and how he treated Ulysses and the consequences of all that, the kid starts to have another vision.

This time the vision of is of the Hulk copletely losing it and killing everyone. Everyone saw the vision too and even felt it. Later on, just outside Alpine Utah.... Captain Marvel pays Bruce Banner a visit....

My opinions-

Wow.... this sure took a very drastic turn. Here we have some sort of violent rampage from the Hulk that results in the deaths of everybody that tried to stop him.... and yet now in the present, Dr. Banner hasn't really done anything yet nor does he have any idea of what he is about to do. It seems Captain Marvel skips all that and just went right to him.

There's not much to say about the issue. It kinda looks like Tony has some beef with Karnak. Also geez, the extremes he goes to so he can get info from the kid. I mean, a flick to the forehead sure, but it looked like he was just about to punch him had Friday not told him that fear also worked for his studies. I'm not really sure Tony was just doing that as a fear tactic.... pretty sure he really was going to punch a college kid in the face.

Tony brings an interesting point on whether or not the visions are true or he alters them through some sort of bias. Though I see no reason why Ulysses would single out Rhodey to die... and this new Hulk vision shows nobody being spared in his rampage. I mean, he doesn't even know War Machine and the Hulk personally. 

I can't wait to see what happens next issue. This is getting really intense! 

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