As I’ve said many times, my experience with comics is pretty new. I skipped them during my childhood and decided to get hooked in my thirties. Funny how life works sometimes.
So my background with Captain America boils down to two comic books: The Civil War graphic novel and the shocking Captain America issue #25.
But despite that limited exposure, I really grew to love the character. I wanted to read more about Steve Rogers and his adventures as Captain America.
Enter Captain America: White written by Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale. This marks the fourth collaboration in their “color” series of comic books, which include Daredevil: Yellow, Hulk: Grey and Spiderman: Blue.
These colors always have a double-meaning and the three previous stories all involved the central super hero dealing with the loss of another character.
White is no different. It is essentially a Captain America and Bucky story, with an all-new origin plot for Bucky that takes place during World War II.
According to Comic Book Resource, Bucky was dead for a long time, only to resurface as still alive. White takes place in the early years when Steve Rogers still thinks he’s dead.
After reading the first issue, I really, really love it. The style of the art is wonderfully old school looking, with a square-jawed Captain America and muted colors. The story was compelling and I really enjoy Loeb and Sale’s usage of “narration boxes” to reveal the hero’s inner thoughts.
It’s definitely worth a look and I’ve added it to my new “box” over at Atomic Comics.
Here are three pages from the comic. The one of the cover is the issue I got, even though there is another one. I really liked this variant the best.
I love the graphics on these!
I sure Hope Mo spoils the hell out of you on your b-day, x-mas and thorughout the year…. let see you love sports and love to watch games and eat subs with your husband on sundays, you dig all the movies and tv shows, and you even like the graphics in the comics he reads!?!?! crimany….
I am a gift.
But she wont go see Hellboy with me.
HOLY HELL MAN would you guys quit posting really awesome stuff today, I actually have work to do and cant read this all….
I was up last night watching the rain, I had a lot of time on my hands
Picked this up this week, too, didn't have time to read it yet. I love Tim Sale, though, I think his artwork really connects.
But yeah, this was a gorgeous story.
Thank you Kate, ugh…bad mistake there! I just had Iron Man on the brain I
guess
On a side note, glad you liked it…I really did too. The ending caught my breath a bit when Captain America talks about Bucky…going to be a good story.
The story is really AMAZING … AND THE GRAPHICS ARE SIMPLY AWESOME I like it and it's my pick for the weekend…
Yeah, can't wait for issue #1 to come out.
Yeah, can't wait for issue #1 to come out.