COMICS: Captain America #616 (The 70th Anniversary of Captain America)

COMICS: Captain America #616 (The 70th Anniversary of Captain America)

A very special Captain America comic is coming our way in a bold new direction, check out all the info and two covers with seventeen preview pages past this jump...

Review Opinion
By LEEE777 - Mar 25, 2011 07:03 AM EST
Filed Under: Marvel Comics



Marvel Comics:

It's the 70th Anniversary of Captain America's debut and we're celebrating by beginning a bold new direction. A double-size main story by award-winning writer Ed Brubaker sees Steve Rogers and Bucky Barnes both struggling with the shocking ramifications of the Trial of Captain America and what comes next! A forgotten portrait of Captain America, painted in the waning days of World War II, brings up nearly forgotten memories of those turbulent and frightening years for Steve Rogers -- memories of yearning, of loss and of innocence betrayed, brought to you by writer/artist Howard Chaykin. Captain America falls under the vampiric Baron Blood's spell in an untold tale of the Invaders! Plus: Steve Rogers: Super-Soldier, and the Secret Avengers investigate a modern day Hitler!






































This special issue is written by Ed Brubaker, Howard Chaykin, Frank Tieri, Mike Benson, Alec Siegel, Kyle Higgins and much more. The artwork is from Butch Guice, Howard Chaykin, Paul Grist and more too, cover is by Travis Charest.


LEEE777 - Captain America #616 will retail for $4.99 and has a whopping 104 pages. In all good comic stores on March 30.

Captain America: The First Avenger is released July 22 2011.
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LEEE777
LEEE777 - 3/25/2011, 7:39 AM


; )
Eviltwin
Eviltwin - 3/25/2011, 8:08 AM
SO happy this will be waiting in my bin at the shop next week. Can't wait.

Do you think they will put Steve back in the suit to tie the comic in when the movie comes out, or keep Bucky on the job? I'm still loving Bucky as Cap and Steve as SHEILD director,I don't want to see that come to and end yet.
CaptainOtter
CaptainOtter - 3/25/2011, 8:26 AM
@Eviltwin, that seems to be the rumor. I think Steve is supposed to get back in the costume by the end of the summer, and I have no idea what's going to happen to Bucky (apparently something big happens in the prison). I feel the same way as you, and I think both characters have perfect roles right now. I won't be a bad thing to have Steve back as Cap, but I think the current status quo had at least a few years left in it.
BatLantern
BatLantern - 3/25/2011, 8:35 AM
#616 awesome
Fastestmanalive
Fastestmanalive - 3/25/2011, 8:40 AM
Looks cool.
Mike Deodato is amazing as usuall.
FrankGarret
FrankGarret - 3/25/2011, 8:40 AM
I like Bucky-Cap and Steve Rogers, Director of SHIELD too.

This issue looks like a must-have, I look forward to the Union Jack story.
CapWriter
CapWriter - 3/25/2011, 9:38 AM
T1TS!
niknik
niknik - 3/25/2011, 9:42 AM
While I like the fact that they signed some decent artists to most of this issue with current talent like McGuiness and veteran talent like Chaykin, they sure blew it with that "Operation Tooth Fairy" piece by Paul Grist. That is some of the lousiest art I have seen in a while. It's almost as if he's drawing stick figures! My 12 year old could do better than that piece of crap. Why couldn't they get a former great Cap artist like Byrne or Perez. It's a once in a lifetime book. Don't waste pages with crappy artwork when so many former greats can be easily signed for such a project. Wouldn't a short piece by Steranko be fantastic? With the prices Marvel charges for their books these days they sure are screwing us readers with a lot of sub-par artists on more than a couple of titles. I would have hoped that at least this special issue would be immune to their "status quo". Guess not.
JohnnyKrypton
JohnnyKrypton - 3/25/2011, 12:19 PM
@Eviltwin

Pick up Cap 615.1- it'll give you a good feel for where they're headed
Eviltwin
Eviltwin - 3/25/2011, 1:02 PM
Thanks Johnny K ;)
AskaniSon
AskaniSon - 3/25/2011, 2:32 PM
This looks incredible, although the art in the Opaque Shadows story seems to be tilting between good and bad.
niknik
niknik - 3/25/2011, 3:39 PM
Yep. 615.1 sets the ground work for Rogers return to his true calling. He'll be slinging that shield sooner than you think. Quite possibly by the last page of the big 70th anniversary issue. I just hope they don't pull a typical and leave Bucky languishing for the next year or so. Resolve the whole soviet prison plotline asap and get him back in service in one form or another. S.H.I.E.L.D. would be a good fit for him.
luckylu
luckylu - 3/25/2011, 3:41 PM
that first picture is EXACTLY what cap should look like in the avengers
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