Fear Itself - Captain America #7

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• 6.0

  Major Spoilers - Matthew Peterson

  Nov 03, 2011

  The main problem with this issue? It serves as a launching point for a new Winter Soldier limited series, and is a lot of prologue for an epilogue. Add to the fact that it pretty much has zero to do with the Fear Itself OR Captain America titles, and that it's 4 dollars for 22 pages of story, and the book has quite a handicap to overcome. Still, it's better than it could have been, thanks to Bru and Guice, and it puts Bucky in a place that is more natural a fit than as a shiny Alex-Ross-designed-Captain-America-with-a-gun. The seeming no-selling of the death of Captain America makes sense in retrospect, as well, although it still seems a bit too convenient for my tastes. (Fury actually lampshades this by saying that he had the LMD in reserve because of Bucky's recent imprisonment in the Russian gulag, but I find it a bit hard to swallow.) Still and all, Fear Itself: Captain America #7.1 does several things right, just enough to overcome most of my ill will, and serving as a good launch Read Full Review