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captwinghead's review
2.0
Not my favorite story and I hate that Marvel keeps shoving Peggy Carter into everything.
The art changed from Yu's. It's a different style, but it's still nice.
The story in this volume dug into the history of the Daughters of Liberty, Wilson Fisk and more about Selene. I just didn't really find myself enjoying it. I like that the Daughters of Liberty are helping Steve, but this turned into Steve being left out of the bigger planning because Sharon and the others thought he couldn't handle it. I appreciate that Coates' put women in quite possibly the most important roles that I've seen in a Cap comic. Brubaker wasn't exactly good at that. However, I don't like that it had to involve so much subterfuge.
Steve also gave up being Captain America for some reason? I wasn't clear on the purpose of it when he just ends up picking the shield (the old one) back up at the end of the volume? It seemed pointless to me.
The art changed from Yu's. It's a different style, but it's still nice.
The story in this volume dug into the history of the Daughters of Liberty, Wilson Fisk and more about Selene. I just didn't really find myself enjoying it. I like that the Daughters of Liberty are helping Steve, but this turned into Steve being left out of the bigger planning because Sharon and the others thought he couldn't handle it. I appreciate that Coates' put women in quite possibly the most important roles that I've seen in a Cap comic. Brubaker wasn't exactly good at that. However, I don't like that it had to involve so much subterfuge.
Steve also gave up being Captain America for some reason? I wasn't clear on the purpose of it when he just ends up picking the shield (the old one) back up at the end of the volume? It seemed pointless to me.
achilleanshelves's review
5.0
This was my favourite volume yet of this run of Captain America! I love the cameos and appearances of Misty Knight, Sue Storm, White Tiger & Agatha Harkness. The Daughters of Liberty are so interesting and I love how they're expanded upon here.
otter272's review
3.0
Story was good. I’m liking the Coates run of Captain America. And thank goodness that the writing is good because the artwork leaves a lot to be desired.
laissezfarrell's review
2.0
Plotting probably deserves slightly higher but the quality of pencils varies too wildly.
alreadyover's review
2.0
I dnfed this but idc I read like 80% of it and then had to return it to the library it counts. Anyway... you lost me!
iffer's review
3.0
I enjoyed this, but it felt convoluted and wordy. While comics have always been political and portrayed ideas with graphic storytelling shorthand, I felt bludgeoned by the issues discussed in this volume, while also not feeling the strong emotions about the state of the world (real or fictional).
stadkison's review
3.0
Perfectly fine. I feel like Coates’ vision for Cap is this perfectly milquetoast centrist lib. The lone good cop, fighting the fight against the right and the left, as if they were equal. The historical retcons are interesting. We’ll see how they play out.
trike's review
3.0
Cap being the inspiring Cap, secrets getting revealed, action and sorcery and necromancy and boy it’s a lot.
The immediate story concerns cops killing protesters and protesters killing cops, and a corrupt, venal guy somewhat shadily elected to run the joint with a bizarre conspiracy twisting everyone’s opinion, inspiring militias to patrol the border and turn out on the street, all of them being manipulated by politicians with evil agendas. Which sounds pretty timely, but this was written long before 2020. It’s Kingpin instead of Trump, the Watchdogs instead of the 3 Percenters/Proud Boys, and so on, but the effect is the same.
If the next installment features a pandemic, I will have to assume Coates knows witchcraft and has a crystal ball, or access to a hover-converted, Mr. Fusion-powered, flux-capacitored DeLorean.
The immediate story concerns cops killing protesters and protesters killing cops, and a corrupt, venal guy somewhat shadily elected to run the joint with a bizarre conspiracy twisting everyone’s opinion, inspiring militias to patrol the border and turn out on the street, all of them being manipulated by politicians with evil agendas. Which sounds pretty timely, but this was written long before 2020. It’s Kingpin instead of Trump, the Watchdogs instead of the 3 Percenters/Proud Boys, and so on, but the effect is the same.
If the next installment features a pandemic, I will have to assume Coates knows witchcraft and has a crystal ball, or access to a hover-converted, Mr. Fusion-powered, flux-capacitored DeLorean.
elysareadsitall's review
4.0
I wish I read this collection closer to the first two, so I would have remembered more. However, I still really enjoyed it. The intrigue picks up throughout, and there are tons of great characters involved. I'm very excited to read the next set.