
Originally Posted by
Paulbot
There's a lot of Civil War trade paperbacks. Lots and lots.
You can read the main story in the Civil War TPB and leave it at that.
All the stories in the other TPBs take place either before, in between chapters, in between pages, inbetween panels! or after the six or seven issues of the series collected in the Civil War TPB.
So I don't think there's any particularly good order to read the story in except to say read the main book first, it has all the important plot points, and then read the tie-ins that might interest you. (Eg there's a big status quo change for Spider-Man about two chapters into the main book, but you need to read the Spider-Man Civil War TPBS to find out how it affects him and his supporting cast).