Free Comic Book Day 2016 (Civil War II)

Marvel’s 2016 Free Comic Book Day offering served as a gateway to the sprawling “Civil War II” event, with writer Brian Michael Bendis and artist Jim Cheung laying out the central conflict. This one-shot introduced the ideological rift between the heroes over a new Inhuman with the power to predict future crimes, setting the stakes for the crossover to come. A concise, high-impact teaser, it captured the tension and star power that defined one of Marvel’s most talked-about storylines of the mid-2010s.