The writer addresses his project with total ambition. His approach to the series will be mythological or will not. He does not hesitate to revisit all the editorial history of the character and thereby demonstrated a wild back-continuity when it comes to modernizing it. Many flashbacks will therefore allow us to travel into the past. Thus, the encounter between "Cap" and "Bucky" is not at all the same as at the time of the comics by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby. It is obviously more credible. As such, Brubaker will look especially on the figure of "Bucky Barnes," to reinstate the continuity of the Marvel Universe. This is not a scoop to say that superheroes are never long dead in the comics. This principle of "resurrections", it is almost always grotesque, here is a brilliant dimension. It goes to the very level of perfectionism with Geoff Johns on the stunning Green Lantern: Rebirth, for example: It is beautiful and believable. And that's irresistible.
Moreover, is not content to bring "Bucky", Brubaker will also summon the main characters that usually alongside our hero, "Red Skull" in mind ...
Yet I read here and there that some readers did not appreciate this series. So it is better to prevent the wings: the superhero mainstream enthusiast base, for which "there is more of fellows to slip, it is better the book" actually may remain unsatisfied. Similarly, the most extreme purist fans of the classic version of Simon & Kirby, where the first version is necessarily the best, may wince because Brubaker mishandles the past, historically very important indeed, but too infantile .
There is not much room for other heroes in this version of the character, which operates in a world of espionage first degree, high paranoid and depressive content.
Never mind, the first episodes of "Captain America" by Brubaker show a resounding success. The sole purpose flaw we can find them is perhaps the gap between the realism of treatment and implausible side led by the concept of the superhero world, sometimes ready to smile, especially when "Cap" is his shield ricochet everywhere, until he returns in his hands, quietly. In the second stage, it passes. First degree, a little less ...
The rest of the narrative is fluid, the suspense is taking, the story is exciting, and the return of some characters is, frankly, bewitching! We can for example appreciate the characterization of the protagonist, here completely disoriented to events. This shows the progress made since its establishment in 1940. Brubaker has taken sides: Since the revolution brought by some authors as Alan Moore and Frank Miller in the mid-80s, the superhero is above all a human being with his psychology and weaknesses.
In the genre, with all editorial constraints such frankness, dating back over 70 years, hard to beat! Casually, these episodes will lay the foundations of future mega event of the Marvel Universe: the unmatched Civil War.
Most of the graphics is the work of Steve Epting, whose rough and realistic style is reminiscent Brubaker usual collaborators, including that of Sean Phillips on "Criminal". All episodes set in the past are the work of Michael Lark, who makes beautiful plates in black, gray and white, full of expressiveness and melancholy.
Highly later because seven years later, Brubaker is always the writer of the series!
