Saturday, February 23, 2013

Captain America #4 Review

From Evernote:

Captain America #4 Review



2 / 5 - I QUIT READING AT THIS POINT

And that's it. The first series in this blog's review set to be cut. Captain America #4 does nothing to change the trend set by the previous three issues. We still have jumbled plots and crummy artwork. I'm struck as I finish this last issue that all four issues spend a large amount of time looking back on Steve's childhood, yet the stories never have any real connection to what is going on in the story. This month's flashback looks at Steve as a desperate child having to commit crime in order to make ends meet. The flashback concludes with Steve's mother begging him not to become a bad person and him beginning his redemption for the crime. Fast-forward back to the present (which is now eleven years in the future from the start of the series) and there's nothing even vaguely that I can grasp at that connects that message to Steve's current situation. It's almost as if there are two different people who are writing Steve Rogers stories - two people who haven't met and aren't talking to one another about what the other is doing. 

I'm disappointed that this series has been such a flop for me. I was really looking forward to reading Captain America monthly. I've come to really like the character, especially since AvX. I'll look into finding another series in the future, but it looks like Uncanny Avengers is where I'll be getting my Captain America fix for the near future. 

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