Captain America: Sentinel of Liberty #1

This run feels like the perfect story for Steve and it's clear Lanzing and Kelly have a lot of love for the character and the lore. Carmen Carnero is one of the best artists at Marvel right now and having such amazing talent on this book for art and writing makes this one a "can't miss" title, especially for Cap fans. Read Full Review

Carnero delivers some beautiful art on every page of this issue. Each panel is filled with gorgeous details and the art style allows for some thrilling action to catch the eye of the reader. Read Full Review

Captain America: Sentinel of Liberty #1 is the first step on a bold new journey for Steve Rogers, as the new creative team understands what makes Captain America tick and wants to push him forward. Read Full Review

Captain America: Sentinel of Liberty #1 brings in all the standard Captain America tropes about a man out of time trying to fit in when a terror threat calls him to action. The art is excellent, the pacing starts slow but picks up steam at a good point, and the thrilling action introduces an intriguing conspiracy mystery. Read Full Review

A perfect balance of grounded character development and high stakes superhero action. Couldn't ask for a better first issue. Read Full Review

So, its all about the shield. A shield of course can be both physical or mental, and a shield can both protect and attack. I suspect we might get to see all four aspects in the following issues. Read Full Review

Sure, I wish Lanzing and Kelly provide a bit more direction and clues before CAPTAIN AMERICA: SENTINEL OF LIBERTY wrapped. However, they still manage to hit some other key bells and whistles while providing the classic CAP feel which should hook fans moving forward. Readers, the potential for an outstanding story is there with all the pieces lined up well. Im excited to see where this goes and I think youll be too. Let me know what you think, have a great week, and God Bless! Read Full Review

Captain America: Sentinel of Liberty #1 is a solid debut with great art and a good start to a mystery. It just nails the beats and provides action, humor, and most importantly grounded moments we can relate to. It nails down what makes Steve Rogers an interesting character and with the other Captain America comic, the two together should deliver an interesting experience for a long time to come. Read Full Review

The writing team of Lanzing & Kelly give us a stellar start to their run along with the amazing talents of artist Carmen Carnero, letterer Joe Caramagna and colorist Nolan Woodard. I'm excited to see where this run goes, what with the mystery elements and lack of cowardice towards discussing some of the politics involving Captain America. Read Full Review

Between this and Captain America: Symbol of Truth, this new era of Captain America is off to a great start. Read Full Review

Carneros art really helps convey that Steve is a living, breathing person on the page, and thats an important ability to have when the star of the piece is a literal perfect specimen of man. Theres also just one really great double-page splash spread that serves as a sort-of greatest hits of his backstory up until now, depicting the history of Steve Rogers through art and minimal dialogue. If youve never read a Captain America comic before, there are worse places to begin than this one. Read Full Review

A couple of contrived plot points make the story feel less authentic, but the art is cool and the premise seems to have staying power, so I'm willing to see where this is all going. Read Full Review

Captain America, as a book, seems to be polarising in much the same way that Superman can be. Does Cap work better on a team rather than on his own? Is that why the MCU movies Winter Soldier and especially Civil War feel like de facto Avengers movie? I am quite interested in Cap, so I will be keeping an eye on this run. Read Full Review

A middling story is elevated by fantastic art. There's potential here though, and we'll stick around for that. Read Full Review

tcobandag

Jun 14, 2022

New team for cap,ı hope this series will bee nice for him

cincyfan

Jun 17, 2022

I wasn't sure whether or not I was going to pick this up when I walked into my lcs but after talking with the guy at my shop I thought yeah I'm in. Wow! I am so glad I picked this up!! This is exactly what I'm looking for in a captain America story. The story has so much heart and passion. The artwork is absolutely fantastic as well. I had been considering both this and Sam's story since seeing them in the preview issue and after reading this I'm definitely picking up both books. I couldn't recommend this more!

godofroads

Sep 20, 2022

LOVED this opening issue. Getting Steve to live an actual life again is so so exciting and something that has been really missing in recent volumes. As much as I really enjoyed the Coates volume, I'm really looking forward to this as a good change of pass and throwback to the DeMatteis era.

UnabashedJames

Jun 22, 2022

I really enjoyed this. It felt like it connected the world of 1940's Cap with present day and then challenged the entire system of beliefs that he stood for. It was a robust length that I was really happy for because it allowed the story to roll out at a leisurely pace. Looking forward to more!

retcon_D

Jun 14, 2022

This is the exact type of Captain America book I've been waiting for! Kelly and Lanzing are a perfect choice for the title, and I dearly hope Marvel keeps them on this title for as long as they want. The art is absolutely gorgeous and the story reminded me of the Cap's best, whilst continuing on for the modern day. Fantastic read.

justonemore

Jun 15, 2022

Just loved it. With this ongoing series added to the Sam's comic, good times are coming for Captain America. Kelly and Lanzing are genious creating the mistery, every page of the main story is fantastic and makes me want to know more. Also, like in Sam's comic, there is a personal style of writing that make this better. Carnero is great too, she has her style of drawing that makes everything feel alive. With this mixed, this is going to be a fantastic era for Steve.

Kalaoui

Jul 01, 2022

Wonderful start here! It has everything I wanted and more. The writers team up looks to be working well! Also Carnero's art is a perfect match for that old time and classic feel while still maintaining the new edgy spy look and feel when needed. But man those Woodard colors are fantastic!!

CrazyforRAMU

Dec 28, 2022

I'm a sucker for powerful writing, and the first scenes of this comic have it in spades. It's a beautiful, thoughtful portrayal of Steve Rogers that totally sells me on whatever comes next. The entire script is structured well, and Steve's perfectly-rendered voice is there through to the end. Visually, everything looks at least OK, with some absolutely outstanding panels and spreads sprinkled in (there are also points where the art could be clearer, though). The next steps are still mighty mysterious -- even with extra pages, the creators play it close to the vest, doing plenty of foreshadowing and little explaining. This could get amazing, or it could get very silly, very fast. My money's on the former, though.

Screaming Enigma

Sep 14, 2025

A pretty good start to this series. Really nice art from Carnero throughout this issue, in my opinion. As for the writing, I enjoyed Lanzing & Kelly's voice for Steve here, and I found the story itself to be well-written and intriguing. There were a few pages that went a bit long, to me, but I still really liked this overall. Looking forward to what's next, especially after the last page Bucky was in.

DDJamesB

Jun 20, 2022

This was a really good start. It looked great, it had cool pages and it had good first issue set up. I think it still has that classic Cap corny stuff but, also feels like it's leading to something big.

Criminology.

Jun 15, 2022

This is cool. It brings back ideas from the 80s runs like Stern/Byrne's and JMD's( there were even some references to that). Like Steve having a life outside being cap, Being comfortable with being cap and enjoying being a normal citizen, but not too sure about what to do with Steve Rodgers . I think is cool, because those are underrated runs for the character and it's nice to see ideas modernized, especially when those runs are not the first choices for new reader and it's not like, it's the same thing here(obviously it can't be, because of the circumstances).I think that having in mind, the past runs of cap, some of which i liked a lot btw, but they were most of the times really grand with spying, other dimensions,conspiracies, big action , stakes etc(waid's last run is kinda an exception), this more street-level, happy and human cap feels really welcomed.A captain, that's actually human, , a part of the society and the people and finds joy in that. Steve also seems to go back to that period of his life and the past in general, which again it's understandable considering past events and that it was a very happy time for him. That actually seems like it's going to be one of the themes here. The writing fits well with all that, it's clear what the writers want to do with this series or issue at least and they exceed in it, creating a very happy and easygoing tone. It's a joy to read honestly and they write a very charming and likable, but still deep Steve Rodgers. A good example is Steve's narration, which i found really meaningful and true to the character.Maybe it was a bit too much at some points, like too much ideas, but we'll see. With all that being said, the ending kinda got me worried, that we are again going to see some big conspiracy at play here. Not that i particularly dislike that, just the the first parts of the issues felt too fresh and nice to be thrown away for something like that, like idk i want cap to be happy and to have a nice status quo for a while, because it felt like the character was in somewhat of limbo, but if they decide to stick with the things from the start of the issue, i feel like that's the perfect new direction for him, but if they decide to go with "i'm not sure about the dream road" which is established as one of the few things he is sure about, i feel the opposite honestly. Still i'm invested in the mystery here and i really want the other pieces. Either way it's too early to tell anything honestly. All in all good issue and solid art. more