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.