Ed Brubaker is probably one of my and everyone else’s favorite comic
book writers at the moment, and rightfully so. His run on Captain
America will go down as one of the best runs on any Marvel book.
Period. However, at points over the past year and a half even fans of
the book began to complain that the story was stalling and needed to
pick up the pace a bit, and their complaints were not entirely
unwarranted. Hopefully this book, as great as it is, isn’t going down
that path again. I feel kind of weird complaining about this book, but
when something is so good expectations begin to rise and while this
issue wasn’t bad per se I finished it feeling kind of disappointed. Yes
we find out who the other Captain America is, but we all knew it wasn’t
Steve and the reveal didn’t leave me excited. Aside from this nothing
in this issue really moved Brubaker’s overarching story along enough
for me. It was cool to see Bucky fighting alongside Falcon, but how
many more issues do we need of Bucky telling us how he wants to make
Steve or in this issue Steve’s close friend Falcon feel like he truly
deserves to be the one holding the shield. I’m sure something cool is
coming I just hope we don’t have to wait much longer for it. There
doesn’t need to be some huge Earth-shattering event or reveal in the
book each and every month, but hopefully next month Brubaker gives us a
little more than he did this time. Oh by the way the art is amazing as
usual.