![]() He figures he’s due some rest, although that’s interrupted by a substandard, largely action based interlude as someone intends marketing the formula that transformed Rogers into Captain America. This is well drawn by Steve McNiven, then Alan Davis, but is unlikely to have the same appeal to those who’ve enjoyed Brubaker’s Captain America to this stage.Īs the collection opens, continued from the Captain America Lives Omnibus, we have Steve Rogers returned from seeming death discovering that someone else is now Captain America, and in a decent piece of plotting, he’s fine with that. It means that towards the end of the book we switch from the nuanced cloak and dagger material that’s been the tone throughout these collections into more straightforward superhero material. The other odd aspect of the selection is that Brubaker’s two runs on Captain America, although sequential, offer a very different stylistic tone. While still available as the paperback collections Captain America by Ed Brubaker vols three and four, they’re now shunted into the following Return of the Winter Soldier Omnibus. ![]() ![]() It includes a wealth of bonus material and the four issues of a standalone miniseries, yet omits the closing ten issues of Brubaker’s Captain America work. ![]() This penultimate omnibus collection of Ed Brubaker’s first run on Captain America is rather an odd package. ![]()
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