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captwinghead's review
3.0
3.5 stars.
This would have been improved if it was a bit shorter. I felt like the fight with Nuke was dragged out and my eyes glossed over during the backstory for the Iron Nail (was that the best name?)
Regardless, I enjoyed the Steve parts of this. It's strange but, as ambivalent as I am about this run, it is the most (openly) emotionally vulnerable we've seen Steve in Cap comics. I like that he's actually taking time to deal with his grief and his loss - or that he tried to before he forced himself to get back in the field.
The part where Cap talks to Nuke about being the child of immigrants was good.
I can't say it enough - I still hate how sexualized Jet is. It's pointless, it's unfair and I just keep imagining how much cooler this relationship would be if she was treated like a young girl that had been through a rough situation. If she and Cap had a relationship a lot more like Clint Barton and Kate Bishop's - built on mutual respect with no sexual context whatsoever. That would have been 10x more interesting because you know she wouldn't have been walking around Cap's place in her bra and panties if a different writer - especially a female one - had been writing this story.
Urgggggg, but I digress - this was a bit more enjoyable than the last one.
This would have been improved if it was a bit shorter. I felt like the fight with Nuke was dragged out and my eyes glossed over during the backstory for the Iron Nail (was that the best name?)
Regardless, I enjoyed the Steve parts of this. It's strange but, as ambivalent as I am about this run, it is the most (openly) emotionally vulnerable we've seen Steve in Cap comics. I like that he's actually taking time to deal with his grief and his loss - or that he tried to before he forced himself to get back in the field.
The part where Cap talks to Nuke about being the child of immigrants was good.
I can't say it enough - I still hate how sexualized Jet is. It's pointless, it's unfair and I just keep imagining how much cooler this relationship would be if she was treated like a young girl that had been through a rough situation. If she and Cap had a relationship a lot more like Clint Barton and Kate Bishop's - built on mutual respect with no sexual context whatsoever. That would have been 10x more interesting because you know she wouldn't have been walking around Cap's place in her bra and panties if a different writer - especially a female one - had been writing this story.
Urgggggg, but I digress - this was a bit more enjoyable than the last one.
skolastic's review
4.0
Really nice - the art seems to have finally caught up to the story, and after having just come off Daredevil: Born Again, I really enjoyed another Nuke/Cap fight. I'm a little iffy on the Iron Nail stuff, but any misgivings I had from the Dimension Z stuff are slipping away.
squidbag's review
3.0
One of the most important and timely exchanges in Captain America's long publication history happens in this volume, so I needed it. Overall, this is a bridge volume from Dimension Z to the pre-Sam Wilson Cap status quo, and ends on a goofy cliffhanger.
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