The United States of Captain America continues to be a premise born of possibly good intentions that is missing the mark in almost every regard while providing a truly cliche jump-the-shark level Captain America storyline. There are a great number of creators trying their best, but it's clear that despite their best efforts the overall package is not living up to the massive expectations. Read Full Review

Solid entry in this series that is shaping up to be a legendary Cap story. All four caps united... and fighting against a neo nazi regime with the help of fellow Americans along the way. This is exactly what Cap should be.

This continues to be a fantastic series.

… And then the wheels came off. Start with the good part: The Cap du Jour, Arielle Agbayani, is nice. Her B strip is a fluffy but well-crafted example of Cap inspiring heroism on the smallest scale. Arielle doesn't fit at all in the A strip, though, which explains why she's barely in it. The antagonists there just get stupider and stupider -- so stupid they'll even hang a lampshade on how stale and failure-prone their master plan is. Walker is no great addition to the hero team, either. He sharpens up by the end, but his alcoholic introduction borders on character assassination.

this run is whatever to be honest. Had high hopes as well...

The first page has me already disgusted at the division and wokeness that Cantwell continues to push in this comic. So Sam Wilson, one of Steve Rogers' best friends, if not a brother, says to Steve that he can't "validate" Steve because he PROBABLY is a descendant of slave owners. Again, let me it make clear: out of two people who have nothing but respect for each other and are as close as brothers, one can't "validate" the other because he MAY have been a descendant of slave owners, an action that Steve has no control over (and he wasn't btw). This is the most blatant case of division in a book that is supposedly trying to bring "unity". Absolutely disgusting! We have other free jabs from the current writer of Iron Man at Iron Man and an interdiction to use "Warrior Woman" as a moniker because it's 2021 and we're all woke like that. Just some free samples of the ridiculous shit Cantwell comes up with. The art is just atrocious, such a clear difference between the clean and nice art of Eaglesham and...this. The backup story is as cliche as they come, rich frat boy abuses a girl and the girls get together to expose him. Sure, nothing wrong with that but it's what I like to call a low hanging fruit. A much more interesting, and frankly more realistic story, would have been something to the likes of the mattress girl story or the Kavanaugh case, where women falsely accuse men in order to destroy them.

All in all, I like how he used Walker, I was afraid he'd go to great lengths to humiliate him but he wrote him pretty good and I'm looking forward to see how Merrick will be like since Cantwell wrote that he was inspired by a real soldier he looked up to. more

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daspidaboy - Sep 22, 2021

Okay, so can you please elaborate further on your problems with the first page? You're unhappy that Sam Wilson says people can't validate Steve Rogers because he might be a descendent of slave owners. Is that true?

Merlyn - Sep 22, 2021

I'm unhappy that Sam and Steve, two best friends, two people who have been through so much are put by Cantwell in a position where Sam is saying to Steve that he can't validate him because of what his ancestors may have done. Do you realize how poisonous of a world view that it? To blame one of your best friends for something one of his ancestors MAY have done hundreds of years ago? It's frivolous and frankly, it's pretty racist too.

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I'm ready for this story to be over. Now that we are nearing the end I can't help but wonder who they thought would enjoy this. Then again, the mainstream comics companies don't really care anymore if anyone actually READS their stories.

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