Cape Town 'is lost, is looking for, is ... but at what price?

The collection "Essential" House of Ideas offers a reissue of the main series of the Silver Age of Marvel Comics, as large volumes of cheap, which look like the phone book for the thickness, color, B & W and the quality of paper used. This 4th volume devoted to Captain America covers the years 1973, 1974 and 1975 (up to June). These are, for the United States, difficult years: oil crisis that undermines the country's economy, Watergate beating down the image of Washington, of the Federation as well as policies to the citizens, and for Patriots defeat in the war in Vietnam that ended with the fall of Saigon April 30, 1975.
Amazon.com gives detail for this volume all the writers and designers, but it is essentially Steve Englehart and Sal Buscema that we see in the book (the covers are John Romita SR. Or Gil Kane) except for some "fill-ins" which the best view of the graph are those of Frank Robbins. Both say right away, the style "plane-plane" if not "all-comers" Sal "brother of John" Buscema does not make me a fan of this artist. Especially that except perhaps indulgent Frank Giacoia, inking here are struggling to raise the designs in question.
In this volume, a Captain America SDF (he squats the office of his friend Sam) ends up losing faith in his country, his "side-kick" Hawk (who did nothing special for this, at otherwise), his super powers. His love life is torn between 1944 and 1973 (the Peggy and Sharon Carter sisters). He is angry with Nick Fury and SHIELD. It retrieves additional strength fortuitously and without really paying attention. With some success, a communication campaign presents him as a "vigilant" irresponsible. It comes in a new name, that of "Nomad" to use super-heroic activities a bit shabby. In short, it is completely clueless and yet must confront various conspiracies threatening the US and the world, before recovering, facing the more "familiar" of these threats.
Overall, the ideas of Englehart and how that is his to drive, is easily placed under the epithet "capilotracté" and sometimes "awkward" but this is the appreciation of a 2011 adult who has no nostalgia and fond memories of the first vis-à-vis reading these comics for teen published there over 35 years.