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Winter Soldier #2 – Review

Written by Ed Brubaker, Art by Butch Guice, Colors by Bettie Breitweiser The Story: What’s a machine-gun toting Gorilla doing in my spy story? What’s a spy doing in my Gorilla story? The Writing: Gorillas, secret villain auctions, Doctor Doom, Nick Fury kicking ass, and Bucky and Natasha reminding us why they’re the best spies in comics, and [...]

Captain America #619 – Review

By Ed Brubaker (writer), Butch Guice w/ Stefano Gaudiano & Mitch Breitweiser & Chris Samnee (artists), Bettie Breitweiser (color art), VC’s Joe Caramagna (letters/production) The Story: Still trapped inside a Russian gulag for crimes committed as the Winter Soldier, Bucky makes a horrifying discovery that necessitates his immediate escape. But, surrounded by enemies, outnumbered and [...]

Captain America #618 – Review

By Ed Brubaker (writer), Butch Guice & Stefano Gaudiano and Chris Samnee (art), Bettie Breitweiser (colors) VC’s Joe Caramagna (letters/production) The Story: Bucky continues to fight for survival in he gulag while his friends try to figure out a way to help him escape without triggering an international incident. It also seems that Bucky’s return [...]

Captain America #615 – Review

By Ed Brubaker (writer), Butch Guice (pencils), Stefano Gaudiano w/ Rick Magyar and Butch Guice (inks), Bettie Breitweiser (colors), VC’s Joe Caramagna (letters) The Story: “The Trial of Captain America” arc comes to a conclusion as Bucky faces of with Master Man and Sin, and fights to rescue his friends as well as an American [...]

Captain America #614 – Review

By Ed Brubaker (writer), Butch Guice (pencils), Stefano Gaudiano w/ Mark Morales, Tom Palmer, Rick Magyar, Mike Perkins and Butch Guice (inks), Bettie Breitweiser w/ Chris Sotomayor, Humberto Ramos and Frank Martin (colors), VC’s Joe Caramagna (letters and production) The Story: The trial of Bucky Barnes continues, with things going about as well as can [...]

Captain America #613 – Review

By Ed Brubaker (writer), Butch Guice (pencils), Stefano Gaudiano and Butch Guice with Rick Magyer (inks), Bettie Breitweiser with Frank Martin (colors) and VC’s Joe Caramagna (letters) The Story: The trial of Bucky Barnes finally gets underway, with his friends working desperately to find evidence to clear him, while Sin watches, waits for just the [...]

Captain America #612 – Review

By Ed Brubaker (writer), Butch Guice (art), Bettie Breitweiser (colors), VC’s Joe Caramagna (letters) The Story: Bucky and Steve Rogers try to deal with the fallout of Bucky’s impending trial. His friends work to find exculpatory evidence, while Sin and Master Man pull a jailbreak and begin to put a plan of their own into [...]

Captain America #609 – Review

By Ed Brubaker (writer), Butch Guice (pencils), Rick Magyar, Andrew Hennessey and Butch Guise (inks), Paul Mounts (colors) and VC’s Joe Caramagna (letters) The Story: Bucky receives a very personal message from Zemo, and immediately runs off to go find and subdue the villain. Steve Rogers, Black Widow and Falcon set out to find him, [...]

Captain America #608 – Review

by Ed Brubaker (writer), Butch Guice (pencils), Rick Magyar & Mark Pennington (inks), Dean White, Elizabeth Dismang, & Frank Martin (colors), and Joe Caramagna (letters) The Story: Cap and Black Widow battle the Beetle as they struggle to discover the identity of their mysterious foe. What’s Good: Thus far, I’ve very much liked Brubaker’s use [...]

Captain America #607 – Review

By Ed Brubaker (writer), Mitch Breitweiser (pencils), Butch Guice with Mitch Breitweiser (inks), Dean White and Elizabeth Dismang (colors), VC’s Joe Caramagna (letters and production) The Story: Zemo continues his nefarious campaign against Bucky, this time by taking over his very mind and causing very dangerous and destructive hallucinations. What’s Good: This was a fun [...]

Captain America #606 – Review

By Ed Brubaker (writer), Butch Guice (artist), Dean White (color art), VC’s Joe Caramagna and VC’s Joe Sabino (letterers and production) The Story: Bucky has yet to fully come to terms with himself, or his role as Captain America. When this begins to affect his performance as Cap, Steve Rogers and Sam Wilson sit him [...]

New Avengers Finale #1 – Review

by Brian Michael Bendis (writer), Bryan Hitch & Stuart Immonen (pencils), Butch Guice, Andrew Currie, & Karl Story (inks), Paul Mounts, Justin Ponsor, & Rain Beredo (colors), and Chris Eliopoulos (letters) The Story: With Siege ended, the New Avengers turn the tables, as they become the hunters and the Hood becomes the hunted. What’s Good: [...]

Captain America #605 – Review

by Ed Brubaker (writer), Luke Ross (pencils), Butch Guice (inks), Dean White (colors), VC’s Joe Caramagna (letters) The Story: Captain America—Bucky’s Cap, that is—must find a way to escape from Evil Cap’s clutches before a heinous act of terrorism is committed. Not far away, the Falcon is working to stop a runaway train while also [...]

Captain America #604 – Review

by Ed Brubaker (writer), Luke Ross (art), Butch Guice (inks), Dean White (colors), and Joe Caramagna (letters) The Story: The Falcon fights his way through an explosive train, while Bucky is forced to don his old costume. What’s Good: Much like the rest of this arc, this month’s issue of Captain America has a real [...]

Captain America: Who Will Wield the Shield? One Shot – Review

By Ed Brubaker (writer), Butch Guice & Luke Ross (artists), Dean White (colorist) Although we’ll never know whose bright idea it was to release this one shot before the last issue of ‘Reborn’, I suppose I should thank them nonetheless for saving me the $3.99 to find out how that story ends, since this comic [...]

Captain America: Reborn #5 – Review

by Ed Brubaker (writer), Bryan Hitch & Butch Guice (art), Paul Mounts (colors), and Joe Caramagna (letters) The Story: It’s Cap vs. Buckycap as Steve finds himself trapped in the Red Skull’s mind. What’s Good: It feels as though Brubaker has gone old school this month with his dialogue, with plenty of cheesecake to go [...]

Captain America: Reborn #4 – Review

by Ed Brubaker (writer), Bryan Hitch & Butch Guice (art), Paul Mounts (colors), and Joe Caramagna (letters) The Story: Welcome back Steve Rogers….maybe?  Sort of? What’s Good: Over the course of my reviews of Reborn, I’ve repeatedly stated that the comic is better the more it focuses on Rogers, as I’ve thus far found most [...]

Captain America: Reborn #1- Review

By Ed Brubaker (writer)Bryan Hitch (pencils) Butch Guice (inks) Paul Mounts (colors) The Story: Bucky and Widow raid a H.A.M.M.E.R. carrier searching for the remains of Zola and the Red Skull’s lab to find evidence that will shed light on Steve Roger’s status. Is he alive or not? Meanwhile, Sharon Carter, the Vision, and the [...]

Captain America # 600 – Review

By Ed Brubaker, Roger Stern, Mark Waid (writers), Alex Ross, Dale Eaglesham, Butch Guice, Howard Chaykin, Rafael Albuquerque, David Aja, Mitch Breitweiser, and Kalman Andrasofszky (art), Frank D’Armata, Edgar Delgado, Matt Hollingsworth, Paul Mounts, Marte Gracia and Mitch Breitweiser (colors) The Story: Everything you knew about the death of Captain America is wrong. On the [...]

Captain America # 48 – Review

By Ed Brubaker (writer) Butch Guice, Luke Ross, and Steve Epting (art) Frank D’Armata (colors) Okay, here goes: I’m officially calling for the impeachment of Bucky Barnes, the current Captain America. I charge him for being boring, self-obsessed, and physically unfit to wear the uniform. Using guns and having a bionic arm is no substitute [...]

Ultimate Origins #4 – Review

By Brian Michael Bendis (Writer), Butch Guice (Artist), and Justin Ponsor (Colorist) Well, now I have to go back and re-read every issue of Ultimate Spider-Man. Ultimate Origins continues its portrayal of a twisted version of the original Marvel universe, similar enough to be familiar, but different enough to surprise and intrigue. The battlefield connection [...]

Ultimate Origins #3 – Review

By Brian Michael Bendis (Writer), Butch Guice (Artist), and Justin Ponsor (Colorist) Hey, hey, now that’s more like it! After last issue’s beat-for-beat retread of Captain America’s origin, we’re back in virgin territory. This time it’s the first meeting of Erik Lehnsherr and Charles Xavier (Magneto and Professor X, for you newbies), and the spirit of the story is the same [...]

Skaar: Son of Hulk #2 – Review

By Greg Pak (writer), Ron Garney and Butch Guice (art), Paul Mounts (colors) I’m a big fan of Greg Pak and Ron Garney’s work. I enjoy just about everything they do. And dammit, I want to like this book so much. But I just can’t recommend it. I still have reservations on how Skaar’s early [...]

Ultimate Origins #2 – Review

By Brian Michael Bendis (writer), Butch Guice (art), Justin Ponsor (colors) I love a good Captain America story, and that’s basically what we get here. After the big opening we received last month, I thought the rest of this series would just go through the motions of connecting the characters of the Ultimate Universe into [...]

Captain America #36 – Review

By Ed Brubaker (writer), Butch Guice & Mike Perkins (pencils), Frank D’Armata (colors) Wow at Ed Brubaker. I’m disbelief right now. I honestly thought we had seen the pinnacle of surprises with Brubaker’s run on Captain America, but I was wrong! With Captain America #36, he drops a huge bomb on the last page that [...]

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