Scot Eaton’s art is fine even if the Discordians’ designs looked like Kang the Conqueror rip-offs.

Storming the floating Hydra Island was kinda cool but otherwise the action is bland while the rest of the story is weak and forgettable. It’s terrible! And not for nothing Ed Brubaker but you don’t need to mind-control people to follow right wing demagogues, there are plenty of halfwits out there ready to do that - just look at the rise of Trump!

But this last book is just generic and uninspired.Īrbitrarily evil supervillains called Discordians (because they cause discord - brilliant!) are attacking major American cities, creating fear in the populace who’re being brainwashed by right wing talk show hosts to turn against Cap and somehow make Hydra great or whatever. It’s a shame because there were a lot of highlights during the run like re-introducing Bucky in the Marvel Universe as the Winter Soldier, the death and rebirth of Cap, and Red Skull got up to some fun shenanigans. Oh, thank god it’s over! Ed Brubaker’s 100+ issue run on Captain America ends on yet another sub-par volume, this time co-written by Cullen Bunn. What the Hell, Marvel? Do you douchecanoes not realize that it makes virtually impossible to read things in order, if you don't RE-NAME them when you decide to do shit like this? This should be like volume 8 or something of Captain America, not volume 4! This is a new.I don't even know WhatTheFuck it is! When I picked this up, I thought that it was a continuation of part of Brubaker's Captain America that I had already been reading. Marvel SUCKS at labeling titles and volumes! Well, it's the same damn thing I've been complaining about for a long time now. I had a hard time getting into the story, because I hadn't read the previous volume. One of my main problems with this volume wasn't the writer's fault anyway. You know who I'm talking about? The one that's a real nutfuck, and had all of those surgeries done because he's sort of an obsessive lunatic/stalker fan of Rogers?

Then Steve visits the crazy Captain America clone-guy. However, this just wasn't fantastic.īad guys are trying to take over the world via hypnosis, and they're using the television to do it.Īt the end of the day, Steve (and friends) beat their asses. I'm not even sure he's capable of writing something truly bad. It wasn't garbage, but I've never read anything by Brubaker that I'd call garbage. I love Captain America, and I love Ed Brubaker. This review is dedicated to Jeff, because.

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