[This is a bit of a surprise considering how much I enjoyed this run and this run is the one in Cap's entire output that I bought from the floppies to the TPB to softcopies as I enjoyed both the art and story so much ... in fact thanks to the stories, I love the art as in the past I have seen Epting's work before in Avengers and found it acceptable but not someone I would follow ... not until here ... so why surprise? I have not done a review yet!]
So with the movie coming out soon ... and everyone having seen trailers ... what better time than now to do a review of one of Cap's most successful if not the most successful relaunch in Cap history ... and the one man who dared broke one of the "sacred" rules of comic books in the sense that no one dies forever except Bucky and Uncle Ben because ... Bucky finally makes a return to active duty in the Marvel U with this series ... and no need for spoiler alert ... this is the volume that resulted in the long running death of Captain America storylines ...
And what an opening issue this turned out to be ... everything is dark, full of shadows and overcast from the line work to the shadings to the muted colouring ... just perfection as we see right at the start that the current incarnation of the Red Guardian was caught by General Lukin and within the opening pages have his brains blown away ... literally! And Lukin is aligned with the Red Skull ... so we know something is seriously up because when there is the Skull in Cap's series, it is always dire kinda like Doom for the FF and Magneto for the mutants
With that done, we get a glimpse into the live of our star character, Steve Rogers aka Captain America as he takes down the usual bad guys only to be accosted by one ex-gal pal, Sharon aka Agent 13 of SHIELD (yes at this time there was a SHIELD)
For those of us who do not follow Cap's series before, we are surprised that they are ex-es but hey we do not need to know what happened, right? Well one thing led to another as we see Cap is under tremendous pressure and has some built up anger that he is taking out on villains (good on you Cap regardless of what SHIELD may think) ... and Sharon is there to assist and monitor him ... yup even Cap is under close supervision by the international agencies ...
But what really blew everyone away is not even the Cosmic Cube being part of the Skull's plans but rather the finale ... SPOILER ALERT SPOILER ALERT because without a doubt, the Red Skull? He was shot right through his chest!
Ratings: 9/10
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