This issue is an exciting, back-to-basics, done-in-one tale of Captain America versus Hydra, ending in a significant status change for our hero (who you'd think has had enough such changes over the last year or so). I think it may be time for me to hang up my regular objections to Cap being shown throwing... Continue Reading →
Over 500 posts to get a Captain America #1, and now we get another one a dozen posts later? Welcome to modern Marvel Comics, where we go from new #1s to triple-digit legacy numbering and back again in the blink of an eye. The "Heroes Return" era brings our lost heroes—Captain America, Iron Man, Thor,... Continue Reading →
This post concludes this blog's coverage of "Heroes Reborn," the year during which Rob Liefeld and Jim Lee of Image Comics took over four Marvel titles in an attempt to make them "kewl" and "Xtreme," only to see the initiative collapse halfway through, with Jim Lee's Wildstorm Studios carrying the ball over the finish line... Continue Reading →
This issue finishes the "Heroes Reunited" storyline across the twelfth issues of the four "Heroes Reborn" titles (begun here), as well as the main part of the "Heroes Reborn" period itself, with only the "World War III" crossover with the Wildstorm universe and the Heroes Reborn: The Return miniseries left to get our heroes back... Continue Reading →
These two issues continue Captain America's fight against the white-supremacist Sons of Serpent that began in the last two issues, while bringing Bucky and the Falcon back into the picture—with a shocking revelation about Nick Fury at the end. (Shocking, that is, unless you've ever read a Nick Fury story before.) And if the cover... Continue Reading →
These two issues see Captain America, having severed his ties with SHIELD in the last issue, taking to a motorcycle to reacquaint himself with America and eventually confronting white supremacism (operating under a familiar name). As issue #8 opens—and as is prominent on the Jim Lee cover above—Cap explains to his partner of five minutes,... Continue Reading →
Coming at the halfway point of the "Heroes Reborn" period, his issue serves as a reset of sorts for Captain America himself, as we'll see in the story below, and behind the scenes as well, as responsibility for the title changes hands within Image Comics from Rob Liefeld's Extreme Studios to Jim Lee's Wildstorm. Most... Continue Reading →
These three issues—plus a prologue in Fantastic Four #6—comprise the first crossover event of the "Heroes Reborn" era, which ends in Captain America #6. We'll get to our brief coverage of that story later in this post, but first we discuss the bulk of that issue, which deals with our hero meeting someone from his... Continue Reading →
These four issues continue the "Heroes Reborn" run of Captain America, the background of which was reviewed in the post on the first issue. There, following the final battle with Onslaught, we meet Steve Rogers in a new reality, living in Philadelphia with a wife Peggy and a son Rick, and with no memory of... Continue Reading →
After over 500 posts, I finally get to write about Captain America #1, thanks to the "Heroes Reborn" reboot that gave us new volumes of this title, Avengers, Iron Man, and Fantastic Four. (You'll no doubt remember that the first volume of Captain America began with #100 in April 1968, continuing the numbering of Tales... Continue Reading →
THE VIRTUES OF CAPTAIN AMERICA 