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scans_dailyCold War's the crossover between the two Cap books that began with an Alpha issue in April, where Bucky Barnes and the White Wolf'd taken control of Arnim Zola's Dimension Z.
They'd kidnapped Steve Rogers' adoptive son Ian to do so - Ian'd been fathered by Zola, and so had the material they needed in him.
Steve, Sam Wilson (who'd worked with Ian both in Symbol of Truth and 2014's All-New Captain America), Sharon Carter, and Misty Knight'd gone to Alaska to save him - where they'd been met by inhabitants of Dimension Z, coming out of portals in the liveries of the Revolution of the Century Game and the White Wolf.
Symbol of Truth #12 was largely action against those monsters - and soldiers of the Century Game's Outer Circle, who'd been wargaming amongst themselves when these other factions showed up.
The four heroes found themselves underground eventually, with locals hiding from the fighting above - locals whose town'd been taken as training grounds for those soldiers of the game players whose moves helped guide the current of the world.
(The purple's from lights around them.)
(The joke is that Ian's life in Dimension Z with Steve was nothing like that cell.)
(Ian's " Nomad " identity was previously grounded in the " man with no name " kind of rootlessness. This is adding a somber dimension to that.)
(The coloring's rendering of light in this sequence is mixed - the reddishness behind Bucky in the last panel is great..)
(.. and that " lens flare " effect in the middle panel seems flat, and consequently superfluous.)
(Black Widow appeared earlier, as part of the group Steve'd initially marshaled against the Century Game. She'd been shuffled out of the narrative by way of MODOC mind-manipulation - and now she's back in, having probably got into Dimension Z through one of those portals.)
Sentinel of Liberty #12 was Steve, Sam, Sharon, and Misty's progress towards those portals to Dimension Z, the Outer Circle consolidating their forces against Bucky the Revolution's domination of the Century Game, and Bucky going " Nat, you really shouldn't be here.
" And you really shouldn't put a knife to my throat. "
He slipped her grasp, and they fought.
(It's a shame they didn't or couldn't coordinate the coloring between these two issues - reading them back to back, jumping from " shadowy hallway " to " inside of a shipping crate " is a bit jarring.)
Meanwhile, Steve and the others were getting closer to those portals, pushing through those from Dimension Z.
" I.. am I making you feel bad? " asked Steve back then (back during the first arc of Marvel NOW! Captain America, in which Steve'd been trapped in the temporally-asynchronous-with-Earth Dimension Z, and had taken Ian in.)
" Yes! " Ian yelled at him.
" .. it's not real!
(Steve definitely told Ian the story of being " Nomad, the Man Without A Country! ")
(The events of that first arc of Marvel NOW! Captain America had ended with Steve leaving Ian and Sharon behind in Dimension Z - by the time they caught back up again, Ian'd aged up.
What Sharon's wielding is a bat with wire wrapped around it - and power crystals salvaged from the Dimension Z-ers defeated so far wedged into that wire, to juice the bat's swing up.)
Steve and friends soon made their way into Dimension Z - the domain of the White Wolf and Bucky.
(" Cold War " does not just refer to the story taking place in Alaska.
Pagecount's 6 of 20 from April 2023's Symbol of Truth #12, and 6 ~4/10ths of 20 from May 2023's Sentinel of Liberty #12.
Writing on the former's Tochi Onyebuchi - art's R.B. Silva, colors're Jesus Aburtov, and letters're Joe Caramagna.
Writing on the latter's Jackson Lanzing and Collin Kelly - art's Alina Erofeeva, colors're Nolan Woodard, and letters're Joe Caramagna again.
Publisher's Marvel.)
They'd kidnapped Steve Rogers' adoptive son Ian to do so - Ian'd been fathered by Zola, and so had the material they needed in him.
Steve, Sam Wilson (who'd worked with Ian both in Symbol of Truth and 2014's All-New Captain America), Sharon Carter, and Misty Knight'd gone to Alaska to save him - where they'd been met by inhabitants of Dimension Z, coming out of portals in the liveries of the Revolution of the Century Game and the White Wolf.
Symbol of Truth #12 was largely action against those monsters - and soldiers of the Century Game's Outer Circle, who'd been wargaming amongst themselves when these other factions showed up.
The four heroes found themselves underground eventually, with locals hiding from the fighting above - locals whose town'd been taken as training grounds for those soldiers of the game players whose moves helped guide the current of the world.
(The purple's from lights around them.)
(The joke is that Ian's life in Dimension Z with Steve was nothing like that cell.)
(Ian's " Nomad " identity was previously grounded in the " man with no name " kind of rootlessness. This is adding a somber dimension to that.)
(The coloring's rendering of light in this sequence is mixed - the reddishness behind Bucky in the last panel is great..)
(.. and that " lens flare " effect in the middle panel seems flat, and consequently superfluous.)
(Black Widow appeared earlier, as part of the group Steve'd initially marshaled against the Century Game. She'd been shuffled out of the narrative by way of MODOC mind-manipulation - and now she's back in, having probably got into Dimension Z through one of those portals.)
Sentinel of Liberty #12 was Steve, Sam, Sharon, and Misty's progress towards those portals to Dimension Z, the Outer Circle consolidating their forces against Bucky the Revolution's domination of the Century Game, and Bucky going " Nat, you really shouldn't be here.
" And you really shouldn't put a knife to my throat. "
He slipped her grasp, and they fought.
(It's a shame they didn't or couldn't coordinate the coloring between these two issues - reading them back to back, jumping from " shadowy hallway " to " inside of a shipping crate " is a bit jarring.)
Meanwhile, Steve and the others were getting closer to those portals, pushing through those from Dimension Z.
" I.. am I making you feel bad? " asked Steve back then (back during the first arc of Marvel NOW! Captain America, in which Steve'd been trapped in the temporally-asynchronous-with-Earth Dimension Z, and had taken Ian in.)
" Yes! " Ian yelled at him.
" .. it's not real!
(Steve definitely told Ian the story of being " Nomad, the Man Without A Country! ")
(The events of that first arc of Marvel NOW! Captain America had ended with Steve leaving Ian and Sharon behind in Dimension Z - by the time they caught back up again, Ian'd aged up.
What Sharon's wielding is a bat with wire wrapped around it - and power crystals salvaged from the Dimension Z-ers defeated so far wedged into that wire, to juice the bat's swing up.)
Steve and friends soon made their way into Dimension Z - the domain of the White Wolf and Bucky.
(" Cold War " does not just refer to the story taking place in Alaska.
Pagecount's 6 of 20 from April 2023's Symbol of Truth #12, and 6 ~4/10ths of 20 from May 2023's Sentinel of Liberty #12.
Writing on the former's Tochi Onyebuchi - art's R.B. Silva, colors're Jesus Aburtov, and letters're Joe Caramagna.
Writing on the latter's Jackson Lanzing and Collin Kelly - art's Alina Erofeeva, colors're Nolan Woodard, and letters're Joe Caramagna again.
Publisher's Marvel.)
