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REVIEW: Captain America #12

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Or – “How A Villain Can Make Or Break Your Story…”

Ed Brubaker has been writing Captain America for several years now, and throughout that time has pitted Captain America against many different adversaries of varying levels.  When this version of Captain America launched, I was immediately put off by the creation of Codename Bravo, yet another super-soldier gone bad, and no matter how well-crafted the tales, I found myself losing interest in the conflict because of the villain.  Will this issue redeem the latest volume of Captain America?

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REVIEW: Captain America #9

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Or – “Former Captain America Steve Rogers Is Captain America Again, But No Longer Dead.”

It’s been a while since I checked in with the star-spangled sentinel of liberty known as Captain America, primarily due to my unhappiness with the first arc of his relaunch.  First and foremost, this volume of Captain America is the fourth relaunch in a little more than a dozen years, coming right on the heels of a renumbering of the previous volume!  To make things worse, the first several issues were drawn by Steve McNiven, whose work I find static and over-rendered, the artistic equivalent of a Simpson/Bruckheimer movie.  Now that Alan “Smooth As Greek Yogurt” Davis has the penciling reigns, will things look up for the First Avenger?

Offhand, I’d have to say that all those Machinesmith heads aren’t a good omen…

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REVIEW: Avengers Annual #1

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Or – “There’s No Kill Like Overkill…”

TVTropes.org defines the term “Lampshade Hanging as “the writers’ trick of dealing with any element of the story that threatens the audience’s willing suspension of disbelief…by calling attention to it and then moving on.”

Well, at least they got us halfway there…

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ART APPRECITATION MOMENT OF THE DAY: Paolo Rivera

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With the announcement that Winter Soldier #1 is on the way, and the Captain America series becoming more interesting in the hands of Ed Brubaker, it’s time we look back to a time when Cap and Bucky seemed much happier.

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