ULTIMATE COMICS CAPTAIN AMERICA #4 (OF 4)

Review by: TheNextChampion

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Story by Jason Aaron
Art by Ron Garney
Colors by Jason Keith
Letters by Clayton Cowles
Cover by Ron Garney & Jason Keith

Size: pages
Price: 3.99

I don’t like Captain America.

Wait, hold on let me rephrase that. ‘I don’t like ULTIMATE Captain America’. We’re on the last issue of this very pointless and frustrating mini-series and that last statement I made was a revelation as I was reading this. The reason I don’t like this mini, for the most part, is that I just don’t like this version of Captain America. The reason I like the original so much is because, while he loves America, he doesn’t want to be THE symbol for it. He’s for the people and he’s had a ton of storylines where he addresses that fact and has fought America a few times. This version of Cap, which in fairness was not brought up by Jason Aaron, just feels like a corporate shill for America. This mini-series he’s been exposed to the horrors of his country and he still won’t make a budge. The ending here is pretty much the same idea.

This issue is mainly a big brawl with Cap against Nuke and it’s what you expect. Both sides gain the advantage but in the end, the good guy wins. During the brawl Cap tries to admit that he already knew the horrors of his country while frozen in time but says it was ‘all for the greater good’. That just strikes me as someone who is arrogant and as I read on the issue it just disappointed me that Cap just didn’t learn anything in this mini. All this mini was, and this final issue proves it for me anyways, that Captain America is a stubborn fool who will believe in anything to love America. Nuke is just a typical villain to me and he adds nothing to the story. Finally the conversation with Hawkeye at the end also didn’t feel right because I very much doubt, no matter what continuity it is, Barton would be spouting off philosophical facts.

The art has been the only good and consistant factor for this entire mini. While there is great art as always by Garney in this, there are some weird moments. The two panels where Nuke throws Cap to a tree, for example, looks way to simple and it really looks like he had to rush to get the drawing done. Considering there is a lot of detail in other panels the gap in quality with those two really striked me. It really looks like Garney was changing his style at various points in the book because one moment we’ll get a detailed look at Nuke on one panel; and the next panel it looks like a simplier take on John Romita Jr. Plus there’s a page in here where Cap delivers the final blow and it’s just….well it’s a big laugh to look at. Nuke’s eye looks like it’s about to pop out ala ‘Total Recall’.

If there is one thing I don’t want to read anymore is a story involving ULTIMATE Captain America. The character is virtually unlikeable and Jason Aaron did nothing but made it worse with this mini. Aaron writes an issue where he tries to make a politcal point about America but in the end it just makes this version of Cap look more of a shill to the country then anything else. Ron Garney’s pencils are great in some spots but other times it looks really rushed and unfinished. It’s funny how initally I loved how much of a jerk this version of Rogers was. But over the course of this mini and this final issue, his attitude and lack of intelligence made this an absolute chore to read. Might not be the worst thing I’ll read this year but this issue definitely closes the most disappointing mini-series I’ve read.

Story: 1 - Poor
Art: 3 - Good

Comments

  1. I’m worried about one big fight issue . . .

    I’m better off trusting in Jason Aaron though than this review cuz the last issue was a perfect comic.

  2. @ScorpionMasada  You would be right in not trusting this review.

  3. I don’t like TNC. let me rephrase that “I don’t like reading TNC’s review”

    also, I don’t know if you know what the word shill means and i don’t think you know how to use it in the right context.

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