While Sam Wilson’s days ahead look tough, Captain America: Sam Wilson #14 provides a springboard for this creative team to achieve greater heights. Nick Spencer continues to take Sam’s story to unexpected places while still keeping the same timeliness that has set this series apart from Steve Rogers’ sister title. On the art front, Paul Renaud and John Rauch deliver the same kind of detail and character moments that have made the Daniel Acuna issues so good-looking, while still providing distinct action and color choices. As #TakeBackTheShield has grown from grassroots outrage to a larger-scale conspiracy, Captain America: Sam Wilson #14 shows that there are still plenty of great stories to be told with Sam behind the shield. Read Full Review

Let's just get this out of the way: Flag-Smasher is and forever shall be a dumb name for a supervillain. That said, his actions here get the ball rolling on #TakeBackTheShield, which looks to be one of the darkest stories in Sam Wilson's career. Read Full Review

Captain America: Sam Wilson remains an interesting story that deftly weaves in political issues and this issue is a solid start to a new story arc that sets up the media – and public appearance – as potential future enemies for Sam. Read Full Review

Overall this issue was good. There was a strong plot point and the dialogue was good and the art was fantastic, but the big surprise at the end pissed me off and I feel like they made Sam Wilson sound too much like a baby and a bit out of character. Read Full Review

The current climate of politics is volatile to say the least. I'm surprised that Marvel is wading into the mix with this title. As always with politics you'll lose half your audience when you take a stand. It'll be interesting to see just how committed Marvel is to continue down this current path. Read Full Review

This issue tries to plug some holes in the Steve is a villain now, but secret, plot that has been leaving some major questions behind. It is an interesting premise to have Sam's friends be his enemies. Tying current events in with the story seems to be working well. So Spencer may be on to something with his plan. I wonder how long he will be dragging this out though. It would be nice to see the two Captain's truly working together again.

I don't know this issue just felt very ho-hum. Nothing really shocking I expected from a first issue. It feels like they are just kicking down Sam as much as they can. I don't think that's very characteristic of the main villain. Even the art and coloring of Renaud and Rauch seems ho-hum. The cover of Martin though is pretty sweet though.