A review by siria
Truth: Red, White & Black by Robert Morales

4.0

Truth: Red, White and Black provides a twist to the Captain America origin story—and is, I believe, now treated by the Marvel writers as mainstream canon. Steve Rogers was not the first American to be experimented on by the US army in order to create a super-soldier. Instead, a group of African-American soldiers were exploited and tortured without their consent, paralleling the real life Tuskegee Experiments. The final surviving member of the group, Isaiah Bradley, goes out on a mission while wearing the Captain America uniform, and he is treated appallingly by the government for being a black man who dares to wear this symbol of American power. The writing, while a little heavy-handed at times, is powerful and engaging and succinctly shows Cap—and by extension the reader—his unexamined privilege; I thought that Kyle Baker's art was poor, however, and not at all tonally suited to the subject matter.