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james_desantis 's review for:
Captain America: Steve Rogers, Volume 3: Empire Building
by Nick Spencer
Captain America: Steve Rogers just continues to impress me. I love that we get a villain (Steve) who isn't just pure evil, that what he wants to do, and change, is almost admirable if not downright truthful to our days society in ways.
So this volume is a nice bridge before Secret Empire. As we know Cap has slowly been building towards the take over. However with Zumo by his side, with a certain villain out of his way, and heroes not paying attention, he begins to take over the world the way he knew he could. With the trust of the "people" it's easy to see how he'd be able to do so. Sounds familiar right? Prey on the fear of the people to win their loyalty.
Good: The opening Oath chapter is great. It's similar to the moment when Steve died and Tony sat by him speaking to him. This is a lot more sinister of course. For Steve could tell Tony who he truly is without worry of one of his friend ratting on him. Also the whole last two issues really build and shape up Secret Empire and the death (well maybe) of someone is shocking and fucked up.
Bad: The two chapters after the Oath are kind of slow paced and dragged some. It's a lot of building and as much as I do love the build up the mass amount of dialog can be overbearing at times. Also the art was kind of iffy at times.
I'd probably rate this around a 3.5 but I'll shoot it up to a 4 because I really do enjoy the story's ideas and excited to get into Secret Empire completely. Here we go!
So this volume is a nice bridge before Secret Empire. As we know Cap has slowly been building towards the take over. However with Zumo by his side, with a certain villain out of his way, and heroes not paying attention, he begins to take over the world the way he knew he could. With the trust of the "people" it's easy to see how he'd be able to do so. Sounds familiar right? Prey on the fear of the people to win their loyalty.
Good: The opening Oath chapter is great. It's similar to the moment when Steve died and Tony sat by him speaking to him. This is a lot more sinister of course. For Steve could tell Tony who he truly is without worry of one of his friend ratting on him. Also the whole last two issues really build and shape up Secret Empire and the death (well maybe) of someone is shocking and fucked up.
Bad: The two chapters after the Oath are kind of slow paced and dragged some. It's a lot of building and as much as I do love the build up the mass amount of dialog can be overbearing at times. Also the art was kind of iffy at times.
I'd probably rate this around a 3.5 but I'll shoot it up to a 4 because I really do enjoy the story's ideas and excited to get into Secret Empire completely. Here we go!