In this post we continue with the "Heroes Reborn" run of Avengers: In the first issue, the team found Thor trapped in amber, and in these four issues they face this reality's version of Kang and a new Hulk born from their old reality's Bruce Banner (split from the familiar Hulk in Onslaught: Marvel Universe... 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 →
This issue concludes Mark Waid and Ron Garney's first extended storyline in Captain America, which began in issue #445. So far, our hero was revived by Sharon Carter (whom he had long believed to be dead) and the Red Skull (who provided the blood transfusion that saved him), all to save the world from the... Continue Reading →
This one-shot, like last month's Tales of Suspense #1, sees Captain America team up with an old friend to confront the state of geopolitics following the fall of the Berlin Wall and the dissolution of the Soviet Union, this story in particular taking place soon after that event (according to an editorial note on the... Continue Reading →
This one-off issue of Tales of Suspense honors the title in which Iron Man debuted in 1962 and in which Captain America had his first modern-age solo stories starting in 1964. They shared the title until 1968 when it changed to Captain America with issue #100 and Iron Man got his own shiny #1 (after... Continue Reading →
These two issues provide a lighthearted break from Captain America's recent problems with his health, which has been especially taxed by appearing in so many books these days! Here, we use his former partner Rick Jones' nuptials to Marlo Chandler to see the way Cap interacts with his friends in a more casual—and somewhat ribald—setting.... Continue Reading →
These two issues of Avengers feature minimal Captain America content because, despite the cover, the main conflict of the issue—involving someone who is supposed to be dead! DEAD!—actually happens while Cap is minding the farm (aka Avengers Headquarters). Happily, we have two fellow Avengers' comics in early 1992 that feature Cap more, both in a... Continue Reading →
This issue serves as the aftermath of the last one, which ended with Captain America shooting a terrorist ULTIMATUM agent to stop him from massacring hostages in a monastery in the Swiss Alps. Like the last issue, Captain America #322 is one of the most cited comics in my book, due largely to the fact... Continue Reading →
This final issue of the legendary "Born Again" storyline in Daredevil, by Frank Miller and David Mazzucchelli, finds Captain America helping Matt Murdock battle against the Kingpin's final attempt to break him. Although the entire Daredevil story is deservedly heralded as a classic, the portrayal of Captain America in this issue is simply stunning, and... Continue Reading →
These two annuals represent a unique experiment on the part of writers Roger Stern and John Byrne (who also handles pencils or breakdowns): They represent two separate stories that intersect in the third act, at which the issues cover the same events from each team's point of view, with several panels and pages effectively duplicated... Continue Reading →
THE VIRTUES OF CAPTAIN AMERICA 