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Captain America #22
Writer: Ed Brubaker
Art: Mike Perkins
Color Art: Frank D’Armata
Letterer: VC’s Joe Carmagna
Plot: Captain America has come out against the
Superhero Registration Act. S.H.I.E.L.D. is afraid that he
will recruit other heroes of the same opinion and are
actively searching for him. While he is on the run, agent
13, his mistress, is put in the awkward position of putting
her loyalty for S.H.I.E.L.D. above her love for Steve
Rogers.
Review: I am a big fan of Ed Brubaker’s run on
Captain America. In this issue he gets a chance to explain
why he believes that Captain America would turn against the
government he claims to truly love. This is an issue that I
think Captain America fans have to read, even if Brubaker
seems to take his logic from liberal protestor’s signs to
prove his point, he actually misquotes Ben Franklin’s famous
“security for freedom” quote, using it in the wrong context.
The rest of the explanation, out of the mouth of Captain
America, makes perfect sense for his character, as long as
you use it in context to the Marvel Universe and don’t read
this as a political statement about current world affairs.
In that context, it reads like a comic book trying to be
more important than it really is. The art by Mike Perkins is
superb. I do have one question though, how many times can
you insert the same defeated bad guy into a run before the
villain starts to look hapless and inept. If you are a fan
of Captain America you should definitely run out and grab
this issue. Remember, it is one issue of a comic book,
nothing more, nothing less.
Special thanks go out to Jeremy Shorr, owner of Titan Comics for allowing us to use his advance preview books for review purposes.
