Captain America #40 – Cap vs. Cap!
As usual, Brubaker leaves me angry and wanting more! This is a great issue. The promised knock-down, drag-out brawl between 50s Cap and new Cap takes place, and they really go at it. Fight delivers! Meanwhile, at evil HQ, Sharon is trying to get free and has a fight with Sin.
This issue is an action beat in the ongoing Captain America serial, and Epting’s back to give it his best. Good stuff, and, yes, another cliffhanger. Damn Brubaker.
Mighty Avengers #16
It’s funny: I almost thought I’d bought this book before, but I realized it was just that I’d recently read the first issues of New Avengers, so the Electro conversation that starts it was so fresh in my mind. Elektra hires Electro. We finally know.
It’s a decent issue. It’s mostly action, with a big Elektra fight, and more of the Secret Invasion-patented “side issue fill in”. We find out the whens and hows of Skrullektra.
Like the previous ones, it’s enjoyable, but not really necessary to the main storyline.
Moon Knight #20
This one’s a giant-sized issue, also containing the two issues of Werewolf by Night where Moon Knight debuted. Those books are from 1975, so set your expectations to lots of expository dialogue and old-school art. To be honest, I got tired of reading after the first issue. I’ll finish it later.
The actual issue of Moon Knight is pretty good. It’s a flashback from 1994, so it really has nothing at all to do with the current Moon Knight status quo, and is basically just a one-off featuring Werewolf by Night as a kind of tribute to Moon Knight’s debut thirty-three years ago. All that aside, it’s actually a decent story, if pointless overall.
