Stuart Immonen’s art is the only good thing about this comic. The story is generic superhero twaddle (We gotta stop blah from blah end of the blah) but Remender’s script is sloppy too - Redwing dies and comes back to life without any explanation, Sam can get stabbed straight through with a sword and appear to only be winded but the same thing happening to Baron Zemo puts him down, and the vampire dude wants to wipe out humanity even though he needs their blood to survive? Just garbage plotting! If I were a cynical soul (shut it!) I’d say Sam only got the gig because of positive discrimination… Nomad looks like a much better choice but then he’s a white dude and wouldn’t make headlines like a black Captain America would (and did). The theme of the book is working together and the importance of community - that’s why characters are always stepping in to help Sam - but either way he’s not nearly competent enough to be Captain America. What’s worse is Sam is a completely useless replacement! Whether he’s fighting a kid(!) or any one of Cap’s rogues gallery from Batroc to Baron Zemo to Crossbones, Sam gets his ass handed to him up and down the street and needs someone like Nomad (Steve’s son Ian from Remender’s ghastly Castaway from Dimension Z storyline) or Misty Knight to save him! Whether he’s writing Steve Rogers or Sam Wilson as Cap, he’s the absolute pits only now he’s trying to pass off a Falcon comic as a Captain America one. Hydra Ascendant sucks because Rick Remender’s Captain America comics have always sucked. With Steve Rogers suddenly an old coot and retired, someone has to be Captain America: enter Cap’s long-time sidekick, Sam Wilson aka the Falcon aka… the All-New Captain America! The Marvel version of Nazis, Hydra, are up to their old tricks and want to sterilise the human race with a blood bomb - it’s up to Sam and his bird Redwing to save the world! Why not take the time to make existing minority characters stronger like Storm and The Black Panther? If they want to expand into new groups take the time to make fitting strong characters rather than hijacking existing characters. I shouldn't criticize Totally Awesome Hulk Amadeus Chou because I haven't read his title yet, but I know Marvel's instant diversity hasn't been great so far. They have powers of their own and are attempting to do something new/newish. ![]() Kamala Khan and Miles Morales have been successful because they are their own characters with only their names being borrowed. I'm all for Marvel adding diversity, but just pressing it onto existing characters rather than taking the time to develop it properly is shameful. As they should because I can't see him remaining as Cap for too long. He's not a fraction of Steve Rogers as Captain America and the villains view him as a joke. ![]() Why make Falcon into Captain America? He's still just Falcon with a new costume and a shield. I have to say this volume was even more disappointing than I imagined. Plus they haven't borrowed anything from their predecessors except for their names so when the time comes they aren't likely to go back to their previous lives like the others. What about Kamala Khan and Miles Morales? Well they actually got some work put into them and reasonable back stories so they aren't part of the express train. You'll also see on this train the original X-Men character Iceman come out as gay. ![]() Farther up the track we have the Asian Amadeus Chou as the Totally Awesome Hulk. To your right we have a woman as Thor taking Mjornir and Thor's name. ![]() To your left you see Sam Wilson formerly Falcon now Captain America. Hop aboard Marvel's express diversity train. Sam Wilson the All-New Captain America and Ian Rogers fight to stop Hydra from taking over the world.
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