Tuesday, December 22, 2009

Captain America Reborn #5 - Marvel

Ok . . so basically what happened . . Sharon Carter shot Steve with some kind of nano-particles that sent his soul, or id, racing through time. It could've all just been in his head, but . . he did leave that message with the vision way back during WWII. Somehow the Red Skull orchestrated this whole thing. And as the final act . . he's bringing Steve back, so that his body can be reanimated, but . . he's also putting his own essence in there so that he can control it. The problem is . . Steve is also in there. Zola built a cage for him in the Skull's own mind. But, you just know that's not going to stop Steve. So now that he's about to have his greatest victory . . Steve is inside . . inside the Skull's mind, and his own, trying to throw a wrench into the works. Meanwhile the Skull has engaged the New Avengers. They've been tracking him for quite while now, and the Skull has decided to drop the pretense and just face them head on. The issue ends with Steve taking off Bucky's hand, and with the Skull in his eyes . . it looks like he's about to kill him with his own shield. Obviously Steve's going to come out of this . . we've already seen him pop up in a couple of Marvel books. The question is . . how is this whole encounter going to change him? And how long will it be before he sorts out just exactly what Sharon's involvement is in all of this. She is the one that pulled the trigger. I know she didn't do it of her own free will, but . . it's going to take Steve a while to sort all of that out. Ed Brubaker is doing a fantastic job with this book. But then . . we didn't really expect anything less. Did we? Also, Bryan Hitch and Butch Guice are doing a great job with the art. We only have one more book to go, and then . . I'm sure we'll see Steve re-immerse himself into the Marvel Universe. This has been a great mini-series. I can't wait to see how it all wraps up.

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