Captain America: What Price Glory

    (Marvel, 2003)
™ and ©2003 Marvel Characters, Inc.

Marvel has in the past allowed Steve Rude to produce some stunning “retro” period pieces, meticulous attempts to recreate the Marvel universe of the 1960s, but this time they’ve teamed him with Bruce Jones — who clearly doesn’t have much patience with fanboy nostalgia.

Jones has come up with a solid story full of his crackling ratatat dialogue and little explosions of action that actually comes up with a logical reason to fit crime fighting into Captain America’s mission statement.

Rude’s art has never looked better; whether it’s a super-hero striding across the rooftops or just a pretty girl in a sweater, it all feels palpably real. Without being at all “cartoony,” each of his panels has the vitality of an animation cel; it convinces us that we’re not so much looking at drawn figures as people caught between movements. And Marvel, please, release the cover as a poster (or better yet, a wall scroll)!

— S.A. Bennett
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May, 2003
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