User blog comment:ADour/The Drums Sound for CIVIL WAR II/@comment-24812000-20151208225554/@comment-24812000-20151211000045

Replying to my own commentary if y'all are curious: Blade was the first "modern" Marvel movie to premiere, in August 1998. They restarted the Blade series in November with Blade: The Vampire Hunter Vol 2. Spider-Man 2 comes out. Spider-Man/Doctor Octopus Negative Exposure. The trilogy is relaunched in July 2012 with The Amazing Spider-Man. Amazing Spider-Man #688-691 (June-August 2012) features Spidey finally taking down the Lizard. Thor 2 in later 2013 features Thor against Malekith. Guess what Thor: God of Thunder #13-17 was about? Amazing Spider-Man Vol 3 is released. The villain for the first arc is Electro. Just like in the Amazing Spider-Man 2 movie which was released the same year. Guardians of the Galaxy was a huge hit. Now all 5 core team members have had or will have a solo series. Ant-Man was also a huge hit. Now Scott Lang has his own title in Ant-Man Vol 2 and Astonishing Ant-Man Vol 1 currently. Basically, Marvel has done all of this to promote their movies. I just hope they aren't releasing Civil War II only to promote Captain America and not for any other reason.