U.S.Agent #3

U.S. Agent #3 dives right into the central conflict after some great build up Read Full Review

American Zealot continues its upward climb with issue #3 and there are still a few things weighing down what could otherwise be another great series. Read Full Review

With only two more issues to go, I am at a bit of a crossroads with U.S. Agent #3. There are some individual things that I like about this issue and series as a whole. When Priest focuses on John Walker, the series tends to shine more. When Priest veers from that, it seems to struggle to find ground or enough space to get Priest's full thoughts out. The art has some good panels and pages here and there but, as a whole, just is not as high-quality as one would expect. All this combines so that after three issues, with only two left to go, I question if is it worth it to pick up the final two issues. The art probably isn't going to get better, but I am interested to see where this leaves John Walker as a character. Read Full Review

C.V.R. The Bard

Mar 02, 2021

It's a cold thing how they make this book impossible to find through databases. It's fitting though, because U.S. Agent is a diamond in the ruff. Only in a book like this could a pizza guy turn out to be a supervillain, familal melodrama can actually appear to be dangerous (as opposed to anything the DCU on CW can deliver), and rednecks in the P.C. , post - Trump - era can actually seem endearing. Splash pages have been given a new life in this book , with enough script stuffed in two pages of action that this could be mistaken for a chapter of One Piece, except of course it wouldn't because this book isn't drawn as cramped. There is plenty of room to breathe here despite this book being stuffed with three storylines within three issue s. U.S. Agent is surprisingly multi-layered despite it's first impression as just action anti-hero junk food from the 1st issue. And the biggest highlight of all tnis - is on the week where Marvel decided to honor Black History Month and drop some great short stories in "Voices" (one featuring a Ridley story that perfectly complimented the week's Batman Black & White short) and the return of Coates in "Black Panther" ( which I appreciate more now after getting into Coates' "Cap"), U.S. Agent tackles the issues of inner-city unrest along with it's cannibalistic nature featuring an Afrocentric Cap butting heads with an Afrocentric Bucky , ultimately over self-respect; which is year after year, Black History Month after Month, still in short supply due to the circumstances and obstacles that we face in the ethnic class of African American. This story steals the spotlight away in the issue, but in no way does that not make any of the other correlating plotlines any brighter in a mini-series that is in dire need of an extension, as much as it is in need of respect put on it's name. - Audiomack.com/cvrthebard more

Psycamorean

Mar 01, 2021

I think I liked this issue more than the previous few. There's still a problem with the structure of the story, because Priest can't seem to help himself, even when it's a five issue miniseries. But! Priest is getting into some interesting ideas here about America, which didn't seem quite so present in the previous issues. The scene with John at the protests was great! That was a really well done scene. Then you have Saint and Battlestar who have an awesome fight scene that's also used to display, quite viscerally, the harms of the concept of model minorities. It's really well done, and I just wish that Priest was more consistent.

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Fracadactyl - Apr 28, 2021

The real problem with this mini-series comes from the written for trade angle IMO.

Psycamorean - Apr 28, 2021

Well, that's most modern comics. Priest suffers from it even moreso due to his non-linear writing style.

Toonstrack

Mar 06, 2021

Good ideas at play here. Some good scenes. Nuanced characters. John Walker isn't perfect... he's a slightly old fashioned American, he isnt Steve Rogers and has more skeletons in his closet than most. But he's still a good man. What he's being thrown into here is a good scenario Priest has set up, where he is up against people with way more bureaucratic power than him and less empathy for the people he's trying to protect. In this issue his old partner Lemar Hoskins is sent into the hot zone looking for Walker but finds himself in the crosshairs of the new U.S.Agent, a black man who sees the world very differently than Hoskins does. There ideological battle naturally becomes a physical one, which is the highlight of the issue. T o frame this we get an insight into the lover of Walkers sister Kate, also a black man with a unique perspective on self respect and African American culture. The three different viewpoints are depicted here as the focus of the issue and they end with a very intriguing cliffhanger that could be controversial if more people were reading this series. Priest is playing with interesting concepts here and I'm impressed to see him actually showcasing different black perspectives on similar issues and giving them all a healthy amount of nuance and complexity. A lot of writers would shy away from this type of subject matter but as a black guy myself I appreciate it, even if it isn't perfect. I just hope he can stick the landing. This issue was solid and had a lot of content, I'd say it stands out among the books Marvel is running right now, fitting for the character. I recommend you consider picking this up. It isnt perfect but its a good, fun read with solid art. more

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Toonstrack - Mar 6, 2021

EDIT ON THE REVIEW: Kates Lover and the new U.S.Agent are one and the same. I was hoodwinked by not realizing an off screen transformation changes his appearance, bulks him up, gives him a mustache lol. This could've been clearer in the book but I also could've paid more attention!

CrazyforRAMU

Jun 11, 2021

The individual scenes and the character work are halfway to brilliant, but the way everything fits together is too opaque. I think this is one of those miniseries that just doesn't work as an episodic read; I expect it'll have a much bigger impact on me once I can read the whole thing in one sitting.

Spacey Medicine

Jun 08, 2021

I find the structure of this comic very annoying.