10. Captain America vol3 #2 to 6 ... Marvel/ Image ...

Recap time: for those who were not collecting comics in the 90s, after the superstar artists went on to found Image, within a handful of years, Marvel contracted 4 of its titles under the Avengers family to the Image group of Jim Lee and Rob Liefeld's studios. Captain A is an Extreme studios production. Issue 1 I have covered it under my old blog

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If you type in Rob Liefeld, you will find TONS of people ridiculing him and this particular run of Cap A is definitely being used as examples of how bad his work can be. I admit that his proportion is way off here. Many times, the characters seemed too stiff such as the running scenes where everyone seemed to be flailing their arms wide for no reason. And as for facial? It's always mouth wide open or snarling with saliva dripping or spittle flying out of the mouth

But stop for just a minute. Stop concentrating on nitty gritty and just read the comic as what it is meant to be: comicbook entertainment; not a masters class artwork. Sure there are some comic artists like P Craig Russell who does work in the classical sense but that's the beauty of comics ... to each his own and the best part of Rob's work is that it has a very real sense of energy to each panel that makes you flip the pages to see what happens next and he is especially not shy when it comes to action scenes! Hence that's why I love this man's work regardless of what others may say

Some of the people who trash Rob ... can shockingly then proclaim to like manga! I mean isn't that generally over-exaggerated cartoony with almost no background? Sigh!

As for this series, the reason I am covering issues 2 to 6 is because it ends first arc and also Extreme studios involvement. So after issue 1, we see Steve Rogers finally accepting the shield back, finally accepting the fact that his current life is a lie including his so-called family (LMD) and went back to serving his country because ... he is needed, bitches!

Why?

Because good old Nazi influenced agenda is back and they are trying to recruit the youth to join their manifesto. So Rob's Cap A goes out to find the source of all this trouble and kick their asses. Joining him is an athletic young girl who will end up as a Bucky to Steve's Cap. She comes from a broken home where her elder brother (skinny dude) joins his mate serving evil Nazis and boy is his mate huge! Built like a house (literally) ... we also get lots of classic villains like the Red Skull and Master Man!!

There's lots of teeth gnashing and snarling, lots of spittle flying, lots of blood squirting, leaps, jumps, kicks and punching going on. And that's how Rob ends this arc. No apologies required, brother, this is just one killer arc of a book and honestly ... this is the first time I collected Cap A on a regular basis ... not from vol 1 or 2 (sorry Ron Garney sort of killed the work of the writer for me no offence meant pal) ... but this, Rob's run! Cheers (7/10)