Captain America comics

[jenab.livejournal.com]

Courtesy of the Iron Man movie and finding this com I've fallen back into reading comics. I've picked up some good Iron Man books such as Extremis and Demon in a Bottle along with the New Avengers trades. Now I'm looking to read more about Captain America. What are some good stories to pick up in trade paperback form?

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[iluviceskating.livejournal.com]

I am in the same boat as you are. Someone suggested reading Essential Captain America. I am currently reading Essential Iron Man Volume I and loving it. If you find any good CA or IM comics, tell me!

[jenab.livejournal.com]

I read IM Extremis trade which was really good. Then there's Demon in a Bottle which deals with Tony facing his alcoholism.

[elspethdixon.livejournal.com]

Steve's origin story canon is in early Avengers (Avengers volume 1 #4-12), and the Nomad arc, from the 70s is very well known and features Steve in a really amusingly stupid looking alternate costume.

I also highly recommend Brubaker's Winter Soldier arc (in Captain America volume 4). I may hate the man with a burning passion, but his Bucky-comes-back storyline was really, really good (if slightly diminished in retrospect by the horribly tacky replacing-a-70-year-old-icon-with-Brubaker's-own-Mary-Sue that's happened in current canon).

The first two volumes of New Avengers by Brian Michael Bendis have some very good Steve bits, as well as pretty art and the New Avengers fighting dinosaurs.

Ilove the entire Mark Waid run in volume three Captain America, but I don't know if any of that's out in trade.

[simmysim.livejournal.com]

Seconding the Mark Waid run (I haven't NOT enjoyed anything that man writes, to be honest), which is on Amazon if you can't find it anywhere else.

[lilpocketninja.livejournal.com]

Do you happen to know which issues the Waid run covers? I love me some Waid.

[jenab.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the recs. I just looked on Amazon and there is a few of Mark Waid's run out on trades though out of stock. I'll check with my local comic book store. They're tiny but specialize more in the trades than actual comics.

I just finished reading the second volume of New Avengers and loved it. The artwork is pretty and I adored the group nudity scene in the first volume plus the interplay between Cap and Iron Man.

[axolotl-lan.livejournal.com]

if there is some type of essentials for it or reprint, the invaders were excellent classic crotcheer cap I meant cap thrusting justice all over the place!

[jenab.livejournal.com]

:) Thanks. I'll check it out that out.