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jayla_hh's review against another edition
adventurous
challenging
dark
sad
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
5.0
jmanchester0's review
challenging
dark
emotional
informative
sad
tense
medium-paced
4.0
Have you seen the MCU series on Disney+ Falcon and the Winter Soldier?
Well, if you’re interested in more on Isaiah Bradley, the first Captain America, check out Robert Morales’s comic series Truth.
Unfortunately, journalist, magazine editor, and comics writer, Robert Morales died in 2013. But I wanted to share this part of his legacy.
Keeping spoilers to a minimum, yes, of course they tested the Super Soldier Serum on other people before they gave it to Steve Rogers. And being in the mid-20th century, who do you think they would have tested it on?
Truth: Red, White & Black, details how the Army tested the Serum on Black soldiers at the beginning of the Second World War. It’s an understandably dark, but engrossing piece which, of course, explains why we’ve previously never heard of Isaiah Bradley.
And read the extensive research that went into this mini-series with the appendix Morales adds at the back with sources (along side Art Spiegelman’s Maus) on war, Black history, the Holocaust, and the US Government’s history on secretly experimenting on its citizens.
#28daysarenotenough #BlackHistoryMonth #BlackLivesMatter #BLM #RepresentationMatters #OwnVoices #BlackAuthors #BlackComics
betttyy8's review
challenging
dark
informative
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Antisemitism, Death, Suicide, Hate crime, Police brutality, Racial slurs, Genocide, Medical trauma, Murder, Racism, and War
Nazism, depiction of Hitler, depictions of the Holocaustjbosio's review
5.0
If you enjoyed the second episode of “Falcon and the Winter Soldier” and want to know more about Isaiah Bradley, be sure to read this book.
pdz's review
3.0
Amazing story but the art in 3/4ths of this isn't great. The afterward is also very interesting, I'm glad they are talking about race with respect to Captain America now.
joeytruty's review
5.0
Truly mind boggling. A fantastically written and drawn tragedy that firmly plants itself as a must-read Marvel story.
kikiandarrowsfishshelf's review
4.0
Note - I read this as the seven issues instead of the combined volume. This series was one of the Marvel free books after the lynching of George Floyd. If you can read it, you can see that there were multiple reasons for this.
Truth: Red, White & Black is a story where Captain America is not the only American who had super serum. What Morales and company do, is look at not only why African-American men would join the army to fight for a country that treated (and still treats) them as second class citizens (at best), but also at what would have happened with the super serum, considering the U.S. government's use of Black bodies for medical experimentation.
The story is compelling and, for the most part, believable. Captain America does appear in more than one issue but, for the most part, his appearance is kept to a minimum. Because of the setting, WW II, women are not very present, but the center woman is worthy of her own super hero comic book.
A quick note about the art - on one hand, the artwork is not to my taste. But I should note that it both suits and does not suit the story. There are some panels where the art and story mesh so extremely well.
This is the type of comic book that should be held up when people go on about comics being simple superhero stories.
I wish MCU would do this.
Truth: Red, White & Black is a story where Captain America is not the only American who had super serum. What Morales and company do, is look at not only why African-American men would join the army to fight for a country that treated (and still treats) them as second class citizens (at best), but also at what would have happened with the super serum, considering the U.S. government's use of Black bodies for medical experimentation.
The story is compelling and, for the most part, believable. Captain America does appear in more than one issue but, for the most part, his appearance is kept to a minimum. Because of the setting, WW II, women are not very present, but the center woman is worthy of her own super hero comic book.
A quick note about the art - on one hand, the artwork is not to my taste. But I should note that it both suits and does not suit the story. There are some panels where the art and story mesh so extremely well.
This is the type of comic book that should be held up when people go on about comics being simple superhero stories.
I wish MCU would do this.
gameoftomes's review
adventurous
dark
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
mysterious
sad
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
5.0
10/10 absolutely recommend
enriquedcf's review
4.0
This was very good; though the pacing was a bit odd, the story is as good and important as its reputation says.
The worst that can be said about Truth is that for some reason, Marvel isn't reprinting the comic anymore and physicial copies can be very expensive.
The worst that can be said about Truth is that for some reason, Marvel isn't reprinting the comic anymore and physicial copies can be very expensive.
tora76's review
5.0
I wish I could give this more than five stars. This is such an amazing story. Wow. Really, just...wow.[return][return]What this is is a retcon history of Captain America. The story of Captain America is that he was a guy who didn't qualify for the army in WWII, and volunteered for a government experiment that would turn him into a super soldier and allow him to fight. This comic comes up with a backstory for that. What if Captain America was not actually the first Captain America? What if others were experimented on first? And who, in actuality, did the government like to experiment on? Based on the reality of things like the Tuskeegee Experiment, it makes sense that the government would test their super soldier serum on black men (though I also agree with one reviewer I read, who said, but would the government really want to take the risk of having black super soldiers around?). This is the story of those men, especially the one survivor, Isaiah Bradley.[return][return]The story is very powerful and I highly recommend this even if you never read comics and know nothing about Captain America. I haven't read American comics since I was a kid, and never knew anything about Captain America before this. It's unnecessary. The comic gives you all the info you need to know, and believe me, you will not regret reading this, though it is a very hard story to read.[return][return]My one complaint would be the art, which is very, very cartoony and doesn't really fit the tone of the story that well (as well as not really being to my taste, but American superhero comic art is not to my taste, period; I actually think I prefer this cartooniness slightly to the usual superhero style). [return][return]Also, personally, it was hard to get used to reading the right way, as I'm used to reading manga and thus my default for comics is top right to bottom left.