Early in the week, I was catching up my reading of Captain
America mostly due to a back-log of comics I had not gotten to yet. Cap is one
of my favorite Marvel characters and for the last several years has had a
string of excellent stories behind him. When Marvel NOW came about Captain
America would be changing hands to a new team and with that it would also be a
dramatic shift in the story, which one often sees after a long run by one team
ends and a new one jumps on. Rick Remender and John Romita Jr set out not only
do something different, they jumped genres turning the book into a Sci-Fi dystopian
dimension jumper and at first it seemed
to work, but as the series contained soon it started to feel like it was just
starting to drag little by little to sit and wonder when will it end.
Issue 8 feels though things that been setting up throughout
a lot of the series would be coming to head and in a way a possible end was in
sight, of course it wasn't going to be easy for Steve having to face off with
the son of Zola who he had help to raise and now on the end of another major
beating. It is one thing the series I do feel is positive is the never give up
and die aspect of Captain America, with the major revelation and now facing off
with the consequence at hand. Sadly what would be dramatic scenes are filled
with the clichéd speech of a child berating Captain America explaining how awful
the country he represents really is. It
is odd to have a character in this brand new environment and yet we have familiar
speech coming from one of the characters.
Tension to the issue is the key, like mentioned we are
slowly seeing an end in sight characters like Zola and his daughter who has
seemly turned against his teaching start to face off we also see a brilliant
turn for Captain and Ian/Leopold. Steven using his short time fathering the
child to hopefully bring him back from the reaches that his true father has
tried to take him. Before getting suddenly silenced by the big reveal of the
book, which in of itself wasn't too shocking the more you sit and think about
it. It raises more questions than answers and they then leading to a new issue
to come out. As close to the end of the story we seem to get another chapter
seems to be added on.
Though John Romita Jr is doing one of the best Jack Kriby
characters and worlds here that it would be amazing to see him try his hand at
other Fourth World characters. Art alone is the shining light on the book, though
while we get amazing scenes with his art, there seems to be struggles in other
places, the faces change shape or look fish like with side lines. Group shots
of seems to run into one another. Dean
White colors also are a little inconstant, one time dull and faded then moving
to bright. Sometimes they would fit with one is happening on panel and others
time it doesn't.
While the series so far has started off fresh both in
writing and art has slowly turned into just another weird tale of Rick Remender
along the lines of Franken-Castle. If I loves it then there is nothing to say,
here I am just waiting for this to end and check out the possible next story.
OVERALL: 7.0 out of 10
Bryan "BAC" Clendening writes for The Broken Infinite. Follow him on Twitter @BAClend
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