Sam Wilson: Captain America #20

[laughing_tree]

"Righties mad about looting: a nice TV is a small consolation prize for knowing a cop could shoot you anytime for no fucking reason." -- Nick Spencer


















"--God's rage."

Comments

[deathcrist2000]

"Violence is never the answer," says the superhero.

Also, man am I not looking forward to Secret Empire. I mean, an event that starts out with a convoluted backstory featuring the Nazis being the real winners of WWII is bit crap to say the least.

[katefan]

From what I've heard of SE #0 you have to buy three other comics to get the fully fleshed out background, and there are three threads running through it. IO9.com did an article about it and a guy on Youtube named Douglas Ernst who reviews comics looked at it, too. Neither review was exactly what you would call overwhelmingly positive.

[laughing_tree]

I'm not the best to judge since I read two of those three other comics, but I'd say Secret Empire does a good job explaining enough of that background to people who don't know it.

The three books are U.S.Avengers, Steve Rogers: Cap, and Thunderbolts. I don't read Thunderbolts, so I can attest that whatever was referenced from that didn't confuse me. I do read U.S.Avengers and literally *nothing* that happens in that title was even referenced in Secret Empire 0, much less necessary to understanding it. That leaves Steve Rogers. A lot of that title has been setting up SE, but I think it's all explained. If anything, I'd say the book goes too far in the other direction. Reading the two back to back, it was a bit repetitive, as stuff that happened in SR practially gets a re-play in SE for the sake of people who weren't reading SR.

And Douglas Ernst is the kind of right-winger who gives right-wingers a bad name, a reviewer who on reading the first trade of MS. MARVEL lamented that it's a shame Marvel isn't willing to also portray the bad side of Islam as well as the good. I give his opinions the respect they deserve.

[kore]

Yeah, I was following all three books that were backup (T-bolts, Steve Cap, and USAvengers) to Secret Empire 0 and it was still convoluted, not least because Marvel was really unclear about the reading order until people started asking on Twitter. Secret Empire 0 was a whooole lot of setup, and people are going to need it to understand the series.

I'm not going to follow it because as far as I can tell the setup is "the Allies used to change the outcome of WWII, so it wasn't that Kobik changed Steve into Hydra, he was always Hydra," and that is....not for me.