Priest’s ideas never really clicked for this series, and now we get two final issues to close the book down. Captain America’s solo book, meanwhile, got a reboot by Ed Brubaker and Steve McNiven and it is one of the best comics of all time.
These issues make about as much sense as the twelve that preceded them. I’m not even going to try to figure them out because the various threads don’t matter. Bottom line: We were led to believe in the last arc that Cap was dead but of course he wasn’t. His “healing factor” enables him to awaken, alive.
Anti-Cap is killed when he is losing a fight to the real Captain America and commits suicide by train…
We’re led to believe at the end of this book that Falcon is dead but, like Cap, of course he isn’t. Here’s the final panel, at Sam Wilson’s gravesite…
Priest was clearly trying to write something complex and deep–like his magnificent Black Panther run–but it just didn’t work.
All of that is simply because Captain America personally embodies all of the ideals which makes America great- and a great deal of those ideals are conservative in nature, believe it or not, and like it or not- and Jim ( Priest ) Owsley is a Leftist Liberal, with a Leftist-socialistic agenda. So- a classic case of the wrong writer for the wrong character. Priest’s work on “The Black Panther” is so much more palatable because Wakanda is not America, and Mr. Priest’s personal politics are a much more natural fit for the Wakandan “vibe”. So- every dog has his day, and every writer has his or her place in the Sun- as long as it’s the PROPER place.