Although we’ve now reached the penultimate chapter of The Death of Captain America, Ed Brubaker’s intentions for the series are still something of a mystery. Elements from the writer’s entire run, even predating Steve Rogers’ shooting, are being called in, but an unexpected twist means that the conclusion of this epic may not be as [...]

After last month’s prototype, Ed Brubaker and Matt Fraction deliver the finished article. With a more focussed plot and a unified art style, the writers’ injection of some CSI-style gloss into the X-Men’s world clicks into place, although it’s still too early to be sure whether they are willing to grasp the full potential of [...]

As if the last year hasn’t driven the point home enough, Uncanny X-Men #500 will immediately remind you that it’s a very good time to be an X-Men fan. The writing team of Ed Brubaker and Matt Fraction have brought with them their unbridled enthusiasm for the X-Men characters, and you can feel it bursting [...]

Brubaker’s epic “Death of Captain America” story has been moving smoothly over from issue to issue now since the first, fatal comic in which Cap was struck down. While the plotting has always been masterful and the twists carefully engineered, something about the story in the final part of the trilogy (The Man Who Bought [...]

After last months’ reveal of Sharon discovering a Steve Rogers-looking dude floating in a tank in the Red Skull’s hideout, it was impossible not to put the new issue right to the top of my reading pile. Luckily, Brubaker knows not to string this kind of thing out, and almost immediately gives us some advancement [...]

To this day, I remain surprised that Brubaker has made me into a Captain America fan. I swear I’ll stop mentioning it soon. This issue sees the final part of the second part in Brubaker’s “Death of” epic, entitled “The Burden of Dreams.” With Bucky now firmly in the Captain America identity, the series finally [...]