Scott's Take: Captain America: Sentinel of Liberty Vol 1: Revolution by Collin Kelly, Jackson Lanzing, and Tochi Onyebuchi

Captain America: Sentinel of Liberty Vol 1: Revolution by Collin Kelly, Jackson Lanzing, and Tochi Onyebuchi is a Captain America that features Steve Rodgers. Steve has moved back to his childhood home in attempt to connect with regular people. He is hanging out and using a ham radio to talk to several of his old buddies. Late one night a number station starts reciting a new number. Which leads him to information on a new terrorist attack and a new conspiracy involving secrets from his past. Secrets unaware of at all. He also has to face secrets that Bucky and others have kept from him. If that enough, Peggy Carter is back to mess with him and not in a good reader. As readers know from the last run, she has been alive this whole time while he thought she was dead.

 

While playing with elements that have been used many times by other authors, this Captain America title is a fun read. You have Steve trying to reconnect with regular people, you have secrets being kept by his friends, and secrets from his past. Bucky and Peggy playing their spy games with Steve in the middle trying to figure out what is going on. The rich and powerful elite manipulating the country for their own ends. I enjoyed this read.

 

A flaw I have with the read is that no one is pointing out that while Steve is wanting to make regular friends is understandable, him living in his old apartment is painting a target on that block for the rest of the people living there. Everyone knows he is Captain America so someone is going to take a shot at him and people could get hurt. Trying to have a more “normal life” is understandable, but his life is not normal. He should embrace that fact. Instead, he is putting others in danger. Not very Steve like, but this is probably going to be a plot point later in this series.

 

The action and art are really good. The writer clearly gets Steve. The events from issues 5 and 6 should have major ramifications for this title and leave Steve in an interesting place.  One that should find him in an emotionally painful place if what has been foreshadowed comes to pass. The next volume is currently untitled and does not have a release date. 

 

 

My reading copy came from then Pleasant Grove Branch of the Dallas Public Library System.

 

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