Has anyone read it?

[silver-autumn.livejournal.com]

I was just wondering if I was the only fangirl to arrive early to my local comic book store to pick up the latest Captain America (and by Captain America I mean Reborn).

I'm up for some discussion! What did everyone else think? :)

Comments

[skund.livejournal.com]

I read it! I thought it was a little... pedestrian. But, y'know, first issue and everything it's mostly recapping (heh, pun) and talking. Loved the final page.

[me-likey-slashy.livejournal.com]

the first issue was pretty good! Som parts were kinda like, oooh, thats kinda lame-ish. but i wanna see where it'll progress. Because they could totally make it worthwhile.
YAY STEVE! <33

[yummysubculture.livejournal.com]

I mean, not much really happened yet. But of course I squeed-the-fuck-out anyway just because it's Cap.

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[ani-bester.livejournal.com]

I thought it was flat out bad. Sloppy art, sloppy writing, and massively uncreative. To the point that it's off my pull list.

Here's the thing, last time I got a first issue and though HEY this kinda was . . . not great. At all. But I'm sure it'll get better, I got burned because it never got better. So now my feeling is, at this point, if it starts weak it probably is weak.


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I just found there whole way of brining him back to be tired to the point of annoyance. Lost in time? REALLY WTF.
THAT's the best they could do?

And Sharon's "Magic Memories" strike me as too easy. It doens't look planned out, it looks sloppy. And the writing of it all, god okay I know, we need a re-cap, but gosh darn, this was badly done.

And the art -_- I love Bryan Hitch in Ultimates I was SO EXCITED he'd be the artist here, but the art's just no there for me. It loosk rushed and choppy, and OMG WTF is wrong with Sharon's ponytail 0.o

Honestly the only two things I got excited about were Cap and Bucky's D-Day outfits (and actually that was quite a bit of squeee), because those were great and I want whoever designed them to be working on costumes for the movie. Also seeing little Steve was sorta nice.

Actually, come to think of it, I kinda liked Hank in this.

So yeah, I was just *meh* about the whole thing and I'm gonna have to skim each issue now before buying.

I didn't actually think they could make me uninterested in Steve coming back, but they did. ^^;;;

[melisus.livejournal.com]

As I said in my own LJ: WORST.FUCKING.IDEA.EVER.

[marinarusalka.livejournal.com]

The first issue didn't make a strong impression on me -- didn't hate it, didn't love it. It seemed mostly to be recap with a bit of retcon thrown in. But I kind of like the "unstuck in time" idea, and am interested to see what they do with it.

Also, any comic with a sympathetic Hank is okay by me.

[morgulq.livejournal.com]

I'm both kinda of blah and a bit bouncy about it. Let's just combine and divide and say I'm on the happy side of Meh.

I mean, it's a bit too easy, yeah, but at the same time...hell of a way to play the "Life flashing before thine eyes" thing. It'll work as an introduction to the character for movie!peeps who I'm sure they intend the TPB for but not for people who are already paying attention.

I dunno. It probably says a lot about me that I'm more interested in Steve than Captain America.

Gah...I'll think it through later. When the Apple Sourz has worn off.

[neptunedream.livejournal.com]

I don't know what to think. It just seems that lately, lowering standards seems to be the right thing to do if you're going to enjoy Marvel at all. Things have fallen apart, the writing's gotten sloppy and the plots are dragging...I don't know. I'm keeping up with all of it just for the sake of keeping up, I think, with some halfhearted hope that eventually we'll see a re-convergence of the original order of things, to some extent.

Okay, I'm rambling. Bottom line: It was fine. Nothing lately has been great.

But... I don't know about anyone else, but I felt strangely compelled to kiss the picture of D-Day Steve on the last page of the ish. Pffff

Hmmm

[jazzypom.livejournal.com]

I'm still trying to wrap my brain around it. Hmmm. I think I'll wait on the trade... or find other means, whatever is better.

[yummysubculture.livejournal.com]

He's lost in time! Who will save him!?

Can we get the Doctor up in here?!

[garrideb.livejournal.com]

My comicbook store guy told me to lower my expectations when I picked it up, and he was right. Not bad, but not good either. I was very surprised that they went with the whole pulled out of timeline thing - it's just so straightforward and standard.

I am interested enough to keep buying, though.

[zombieandgrits.livejournal.com]

It was...hmmm..the art bugged me and the story telling was kinda :\. Lets hope it will get better in the future.

[silver-autumn.livejournal.com]

Ehh- well I kinda liked it. I guess the whole "lost in time" idea was appealing to me since I love anything having to do with time travel-

Also, I was getting all kinds of plot bunnies for some interesting Tony/Steve stuff.

[tsukinofaerii.livejournal.com]

I'm refusing to read any of the newer stuff except Reborn. >.> I want Cap back and things fixed before I'll dip into the current mess. I mean, could they have screwed up a whole universe more? But if I don't read it, it hasn't happened, so...

I think it pretty much fell face-first into the sea of cliche, but it wasn't too bad. It needed some desperate work on the flow; my beta would smack me from three states over if I jumped around that much in a story. The gun thing made me face palm -- the last time I saw that bit of phlebotinum was in Land of the Lost. I'm kind of hoping the guys in charge see the giant re-set button that anything to do with time travel is and punch it hard.

But Cap revisiting his own past? Definitely has potential. If the writers don't use it, I'm sure a fanfic writer will.

[ohfetus.livejournal.com]

At this point Brubaker is just fucking with us. VONNEGUT REFERENCES? REALLY?? I can appreciate a good reference but this was one was so contrived and lame. "Originally I had a seagull going Pee-too-tweet! too." (http://twitter.com/brubaker/status/2425562782) Argh! I mean, I'm gonna read it because I love Steve, but it's just kind of lame.

[booster-blue.livejournal.com]

Once I read about the whole TIME BULLET OF TIME thing, I immediately thought, "Soooo Steve is out there chilling out with Batman in the Time Stream. Fantastic."


I'm staying cautiously optimistic about it all.