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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.
lukeisthename34's review
4.0
Coates is a national treasure, yet I feel like Marvel is holding him back on this. The story feels, listless and confused. If Cap isn't even in it, everything still happens. I really feel like they must be forcing Coates to do certain things and not letting him fully loose like they have on BP. But gosh, the watch-dogs having half-confederate flag masks? SCARY.
skylarprimm's review
3.0
I kept thinking I was missing something as I read these issues, but I really just think they were poorly paced and lacked the connective tissue I would have expected from Coates. I hope the next volume improves on this one.
captainwinter's review
adventurous
tense
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
The story was alright, albeit a bit slow again, and I feel like the only truly interesting thing happened in the last issue, but the constant art switching annoyed the crap out of me.
Maybe the cop storyline could’ve been worked out a bit better, and the Daughters of Liberty could’ve sounded a bit more interesting, but I’m curious to see what comes next!
Maybe the cop storyline could’ve been worked out a bit better, and the Daughters of Liberty could’ve sounded a bit more interesting, but I’m curious to see what comes next!
doublefantasy's review
2.0
2.5/5
this was such an average and yet uninspiring take on cap this time. like, I know it mostly functioned just to build up to the Actual plot later on/explain the Daughters of Liberty group (which was so boring? how can you make a cool secret group of heroines sound like such a bore? yelling) but I can't help but feel dissappointed at how much this volume dragged its feet with all of the characters, personalities, motivations involved and so forth. do not even get me started on the damn art switching back and forth... *shivers*, no amount of good alex ross art for the issue covers will save you!!!!! it's all false advertisement at this point lmao
this was such an average and yet uninspiring take on cap this time. like, I know it mostly functioned just to build up to the Actual plot later on/explain the Daughters of Liberty group (which was so boring? how can you make a cool secret group of heroines sound like such a bore? yelling) but I can't help but feel dissappointed at how much this volume dragged its feet with all of the characters, personalities, motivations involved and so forth. do not even get me started on the damn art switching back and forth... *shivers*, no amount of good alex ross art for the issue covers will save you!!!!! it's all false advertisement at this point lmao
voidboi's review
2.0
I actually liked the first two issues in this volume, their introspection really hit home.
Then we got to the actual story arc of the trade, and it fell apart. There is always some discomfort with Steve's relationship to military control, but I was disappointed in how Coates handled it in this cop heavy storyline. It leaned into that side of Steve without really acknowledging what it means today, and all in all it felt pretty disconnected from reality. Considering how Coates isn't new to discussions of police brutality, we can't just attribute this disconnect to it being written before May 2020. It was written after Ferguson, and it was uninspiring, and honestly I wouldn't be surprised if Marvel higher-ups had a hand in it.
Additionally, a gorgeous page in issue 19 (cool stylized time magic spread) really highlighted for me how mediocre the art has been in this title.
Then we got to the actual story arc of the trade, and it fell apart. There is always some discomfort with Steve's relationship to military control, but I was disappointed in how Coates handled it in this cop heavy storyline. It leaned into that side of Steve without really acknowledging what it means today, and all in all it felt pretty disconnected from reality. Considering how Coates isn't new to discussions of police brutality, we can't just attribute this disconnect to it being written before May 2020. It was written after Ferguson, and it was uninspiring, and honestly I wouldn't be surprised if Marvel higher-ups had a hand in it.
Additionally, a gorgeous page in issue 19 (cool stylized time magic spread) really highlighted for me how mediocre the art has been in this title.
agigliotti758's review
3.0
For a Captain America story, it’s really all about the women and I’m enjoying it.
While some issues dragged, I feel like the last issue in the volume really picked it up and makes me really interested in picking up the next volume.
While some issues dragged, I feel like the last issue in the volume really picked it up and makes me really interested in picking up the next volume.
squidbag's review
4.0
The art here is not my favorite, and that's what kept this from getting all five stars.
That said, Coates loves Cap like I do. When you are a fan of Captain America, it's complicated. That is my relationship status with this fictional character, who has always been two things: a symbol of ambitions for Americans; aspirations, an icon of hope, of what we, on our better days, and in our largest hearts, hope that we are and can be. The other thing that Cap, editorially, has always been, is a mirror for current events: WWII, civil rights, Watergate, Reagan years, nuclear psychosis, displaced veterans, vigilante "justice," 9/11, Bush-Patriot Act, endless wars, gay marriage - you name it, and Cap stories are meant to reflect it, influence opinion about it, and make it into something that if an unfinished opinion picked it up and read it, they would know where an avatar of liberty and hope lands, and maybe think about landing there too.
Coates continues to hit it big here: The Watchdogs are incels in Rebel masks, hitting people because they "think that's what men do." Immigrants here are tortured because they're trying not to starve, and the law is questioned, absent, mocked by corruption, and the head is rotten while the body dies slowly. In the midst of all of this, Coates brings us back to US Agent, Red Skull, Scourge, and continues his brilliant subversive retcon with the Daughters of Liberty including everyone from the founding mothers to Harriet Tubman.
I'm in for as long as Coates is. Read it.
That said, Coates loves Cap like I do. When you are a fan of Captain America, it's complicated. That is my relationship status with this fictional character, who has always been two things: a symbol of ambitions for Americans; aspirations, an icon of hope, of what we, on our better days, and in our largest hearts, hope that we are and can be. The other thing that Cap, editorially, has always been, is a mirror for current events: WWII, civil rights, Watergate, Reagan years, nuclear psychosis, displaced veterans, vigilante "justice," 9/11, Bush-Patriot Act, endless wars, gay marriage - you name it, and Cap stories are meant to reflect it, influence opinion about it, and make it into something that if an unfinished opinion picked it up and read it, they would know where an avatar of liberty and hope lands, and maybe think about landing there too.
Coates continues to hit it big here: The Watchdogs are incels in Rebel masks, hitting people because they "think that's what men do." Immigrants here are tortured because they're trying not to starve, and the law is questioned, absent, mocked by corruption, and the head is rotten while the body dies slowly. In the midst of all of this, Coates brings us back to US Agent, Red Skull, Scourge, and continues his brilliant subversive retcon with the Daughters of Liberty including everyone from the founding mothers to Harriet Tubman.
I'm in for as long as Coates is. Read it.
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