Comments on: A Year of Cool Comic Book Moments – Day 98

By: Joe Mama

Joe Mama — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 16:41:23 +0000

Yes, you do lie.

By: Dean

Dean — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 02:07:50 +0000

I lie that Clinton’s apology was basically, “Sorry for not believing in you Cap. I’ll try to be more trusting and less vigilant in the future.”

By: John Trumbull

John Trumbull — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 03:39:57 +0000

The people commenting on the art are probably responding to the change in inkers. There were a LOT of different inkers on Garney’s run on Cap. Mike Sellers, Scott Koblish, Scott Hanna (I think)… and that’s just off the top of my head. I’m forgetting who it was they finally settled on.

And if anyone has a problem with Captain America having an adventure with Bill Clinton, just read it as Cap & a generic U.S. President & you’ll probably like it better. It should be easy – Clinton’s never called by name, just “Mr. President” and “Sir.”

By: Rob McMonigal

Rob McMonigal — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 23:30:06 +0000

Seeing these pages reminds me Obama wasn’t the first president to show up a lot in Marvel comics…

By: danjack

danjack — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 22:16:18 +0000

No offense, but these Cap moments have been getting progressively BETTER.

By: buttler

buttler — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 22:07:43 +0000

I dunno, Matt. As president-Cap meetings go, it’s hard to beat what happened with Reagan.

By: Richard

Richard — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 18:55:48 +0000

I did like how Clinton said that wearing the shield was like handling Babe Ruth’s bat. Sort of gives the reader some perspective on how artifacts like Cap’s shield might be regarded in Marvel’s universe.
-r-

By: Casey

Casey — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 17:15:51 +0000

No offense, but these Cap moments have been getting progressively worse.

By: Agent_Torpor

Agent_Torpor — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 16:32:22 +0000

That was cool in how it made me cringe with complete and utter embarassment.

By: Dean

Dean — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 15:06:49 +0000

In what way was that cool?

Waid is very good at boiling the character down to the basics and doing straight ahead adventure stories. This is Captain America as the Perfect American Soldier. That is the essential foundation of the character, which you can either like or not.

Sadly, Ron Garney’s work here is a real detriment. It isn’t that he is bad. It is just that Waid is almost the Bizarro Grant Morrison. Morrison works best with artists whose storytelling is very straight forward, because the scripts are convoluted that you can’t waste any energy on the art. With Waid, the scripts are so direct that you need some mood from the art. Waid’s best stuff was done with the epic Alex Ross and the comic Mike Wieringo. With guys like Garney and Barry Kitson, he can be a bit … bland.

By: Matt Bird

Matt Bird — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 14:46:41 +0000

For counterpoint, you should show what happened when Cap was in Nixon’s oval office.

By: Argo Plummer

Argo Plummer — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 14:29:21 +0000

I have really enjoyed this week and remembering some great moments from what was a great run–albeit too brief. Waid and Garney’s work and momentum were interrupted by Heroes Reborn–Liefield Cap, Robot Bucky, yeah, those were some good comics–and I feel they never were quite able to recapture the magic they found in their initial run.

However, these initial issues came at a time when I was regularly laughed at when I revealed to customers at the LCS I worked at that Cap was my favorite Marvel hero. Waid and Garney showed everyone that Cap, when done right, is one of the premiere heroes of the Marvel Universe.

By: Strider

Strider — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 14:16:26 +0000

The art on this one is heads above the previous issues, in my opinion. Great moment for one of my favorite characters.

By: chad

chad — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 13:43:50 +0000

that moment made the run a good run. for even though he went through hades captain america proved he will always be on the side of his country . loved the part of saying caps shield is like babe ruth’s bat

By: Rusty Priske

Rusty Priske — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 12:40:06 +0000

I have been critical of these ‘moments’ this week because I think that the run was actually pretty bad.

Not today. Those were nice pages.

By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 12:03:40 +0000

Anyone else reminded of that Onion bit: “Clinton Goes Back In Time, Teams Up With Golden Age Clinton”?

By: Snapper

Snapper — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 09:29:11 +0000

make the 100th ‘a day of really, really stupid comic book moments’ ? haha : )

By: Lt. Clutch

Lt. Clutch — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 09:17:55 +0000

Wow, your 100th edition falls on my birthday. Make it look cool, Brian!

These Cap issues went under my radar at a time when I wasn’t reading comics. I’m now gonna track the whole run down for sure. Loved the ending to this one! …I sure do miss Steve Rogers.

By: sgt rawk

sgt rawk — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 07:53:18 +0000

In what way was that cool?

By: Jason

Jason — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 07:02:59 +0000

And then cut to the White House lawn, as Cap frantically scrubs his shield clean five minutes after President Clinton handled it.

Okay, I don’t mean it, but I know some of you were thinking it.