In a lot of ways, the book cleans up nicer than it ought to. But at the same time, it's that hope as well as the acknowledgement that we are as a people stronger together that feels like just the message we need. Read Full Review

The United States of Captain America has accomplished a lot, like introducing new heroes while reiterating the fact that Captain America isn't a hero for the government, but for and by the people. It's a reminder our diversity as a people is a strength while supplying a crackerjack, action-packed ending. Read Full Review

The United States of Captain America coasted on such highs as it began only to stumble through fields of cliches and missed opportunity on the way to this average conclusion. The artwork continues to save the book and gives a lot of glimpses of what might have been had far more interesting paths been taken. In the end, the diversity bait and switch was a throughline from start to finish, a far too common occurrence with the industry. Read Full Review

What a terrific miniseries this was. We were introduced to some new charecters had a classic feeling captain America story and there was a fantastic message of love and unity overcoming hate and division. My personal favorite was issue 3 as we met Joe Gomez I have to say I'd love to see him get at least a miniseries at some point. I'd also like to see a captains network series picking up off of this. Thank you to everyone involved in this series it really was fantastic.

Strong finale to a very interesting series. Not every character csn get a series like this and have it make sense. But Cap being one of them fits.

Sure the bad guy is a little bit hokey, but hes a known marvel character and seeing him defeated by the sentinels of liberty - all of them - is great.

A lot of people decried this book when it started and spread falsehoods about it. This issue is a good reminder that Cap hasn't changed, and he still supports AND believes in the country he represents, but he also supports and believes in all the people within it and he wants them to take up his fight with them.

Theres something to be said about this book providing a story in which all different Americans, some different colors, different backgrounds, different ideals, some even different ways of doing things, and having them all unite under a common cause to defeat facism and hate. Because ultimately unity is the theme of this story, what its all about, and why the series is titled what it was.

Captain America is one of Marvel's best heroes because he extols the virtues of an idea that is bigger than just one man. He fights a battle bigger than him, and he does it with Valor and with respect. Captain America has hate, but his hate is towards hatred, and he doesn't let it define him. He let's what he loves define him. This was a nice tribute series to a character who's had some of the longest and most storied histories of any superhero.

The art is solid here, and I liked pretty much all the Caps we were introduced to. The most recent one Captain Merrick even highlighted an issue many will ignore in a comic book that affects military personal, very cool to include something like that to show that sometimes even defenders need defending. They could have just made him a stereotype, but they gave him a real motivation and voice.

Here's to many more years. And P.S. Bucky still rocks the suit. more

The issue debuts with a fairly decent opening from U.S. Agent who tells us that we have to be careful about defining ourselves by what we disagree with. That's actually true, problem here is, when Cantwell shares this lesson through U.S. Agent his target is actually the more conservative side of America when in fact it's an excellent lesson for those who embrace woke ideology. You know, guys like Cantwell, people who are always looking to cancel others who don't think like they do. There's a terrible lack of self-awareness here even though the lesson in itself is a healthy one. Other than that I continue to like his voice for U.S. Agent, Bucky and Merrick, though he doesn't find quite the right voice for Steve who feels very hollow as a character here instead of feeling like a main character. Eaglesham draws an awesome BuckyCap costume and there is at least one panel that really shines here. I feel though that this was a missed opportunity because there is a big reunion of Caps here and a lot of former Caps are ignored just so we can have these new Caps that no one cares about.

Oh, the only new Cap that we don't have a backup story here for is, of course, Merrick, who else. If you think there's a coincidence that we had backup stories for the gay Cap, the black female activist Cap, the Native American Cap and the Filipino chick but we don't have a backup story for the white soldier, you haven't been paying attention at the comic medium these last few years. I kept hoping that wasn't the case because Cantwell actually stated in an interview that he based Merrick on a real life soldier he met but I guess that wasn't enough to counterbalance the fact that he's not a minority and he's a soldier, those are probably two horrible flaws in Cantwell's view. From the new Caps I hope to see more of Joe, he's cool, and maybe Merrick, the others brought nothing to the story.

All in all, a very mixed-up series (better than that horrendous Coates run but then again, that's a pretty low bar) that had some good that couldn't outweigh the bad, though. I'm not putting a lot of hope in Derek Landy's upcoming Captain America/Iron Man series, if his Falcon and Winter Soldier series is any indication it will be a shitshow.

Cap really needs its own series and desperately needs a writer who gets who he is and whose main concern isn't promoting his ideology but actually trying to push the character in some new territory, questioning what America is about and facing the perils that actually haunt the country these days, not silly two-bit archaic villains. more

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Fracadactyl - Oct 23, 2021

Are you sure your issues in regards to Merrick are because of Cantwell or it because of how Marvel's advertising and hype drive are resembling Twitter?

Merlyn - Oct 23, 2021

Well, Marvel definitely has most of the fault but I think if Cantwell really pushed for it he would have convinced them to stick another ten pages in there. What bothered me is that from the interviews I got the feeling Cantwell really cared about the character, he spoke very nicely of the real life soldier he based the character upon. To see then that he gets so little attention and basically just a page of backstory was very disappointing to me, especially because I liked the idea for Merrick.

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I liked the idea of the Captains Network, and all of the members we met, particularly Joe Gomez. The art was pretty strong all the way through, especially here at the end. The dialogue had some great flourishes to it, like Sam's witty voice.

But yikes, this plot! A grab-bag of garbage antagonists running an epically stupid plan, and the heroes' foiling of it ain't so smart either.

And then there's Aaron's cringe-inducing speech. Not cringe-inducing politically; I'm pretty much right in line with this series' politics. But there's something cowardly about an author addressing his audience in a conciliatory, apologetic way (particularly as directly as this). It suggests a lack of confidence and a toxic sort of self-doubt.

Jeez, Mr. Cantwell, if you're gonna apologize for something, apologize for the weak-ass villains!
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It's not a bad series, but its not memorable. It's fine.