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captwinghead's review
2.0
Yikes... this started with some of the same heart and fun that I like about the classic Cap comics and then swan dived straight into ignorance.
I like the Nomad era. However short it was, it's a big part of Cap's history and I really liked that. I loved seeing Sam get his wings. Although I appreciate that the films didn't make Sam get them because he felt inferior to Cap, I wished they'd come from Wakanda from the start. Still, Sam and Steve's partnership is what makes this books fun.
The retcon of Sam's history to make him a former criminal and Red Skull's creation was really sh*tty. There's no way around that. Not only was it completely unneeded, it was executed in a way that was just incredibly racist. Sure, we expect the Red Skull to use racist rhetoric, but taking an upstanding black male character who worked tirelessly to help the underprivileged in his neighborhood and turning him into a no good former criminal is racist. Why do it? Why ruin one of the few black characters in Marvel at the time - and one of the few with no ties to crime.
*Sighs* we continue on
I like the Nomad era. However short it was, it's a big part of Cap's history and I really liked that. I loved seeing Sam get his wings. Although I appreciate that the films didn't make Sam get them because he felt inferior to Cap, I wished they'd come from Wakanda from the start. Still, Sam and Steve's partnership is what makes this books fun.
The retcon of Sam's history to make him a former criminal and Red Skull's creation was really sh*tty. There's no way around that. Not only was it completely unneeded, it was executed in a way that was just incredibly racist. Sure, we expect the Red Skull to use racist rhetoric, but taking an upstanding black male character who worked tirelessly to help the underprivileged in his neighborhood and turning him into a no good former criminal is racist. Why do it? Why ruin one of the few black characters in Marvel at the time - and one of the few with no ties to crime.
*Sighs* we continue on
invertible_hulk's review
3.0
Much like Chris Claremont, Steve Englehart is a decent comics writer/storyteller but his dialogue is maddening. It's even below the level of bad radio drama dialogue -- here, everyone explains their every action, no matter how trivial. Even "secret plans" are revealed before they're even set into motion.
But other than that, this collection was a lot of fun to read.
The Nomad plotline seemed unneccessary given the brevity of it all (four issuses, or so), but was still interesting.
As was the slightly homoerotic gym that Steve Rogers works out in -- a small gym with 'not many members' and seemingly one employee, Roscoe.
But other than that, this collection was a lot of fun to read.
The Nomad plotline seemed unneccessary given the brevity of it all (four issuses, or so), but was still interesting.
As was the slightly homoerotic gym that Steve Rogers works out in -- a small gym with 'not many members' and seemingly one employee, Roscoe.
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