Captain America #601: "A Very Special Issue..."

This was the issue that made me drop Cap.... I had enough of the flashbacks that didn't really add to anything and the art was so bad that I couldn't press on.
 
I understand that Gene Colan is a legend, and for his time, his work was great. But it was annoying to me in this issue. His faces were awful and the anatomy was way off.

Flashback within a flashback. 

" Flashback within a flashback.  "

" @G-Man: I actually didn't dig this issue that much. Felt too out of place. Disrupted the flow of Cap & Rebirth y'know? "

refreshing to see an older artists work with new inking and looking fabulous compared to the newsprint look.

I haven't watched the vid yet but I thought Captain America was on hiatus until Rebirth was finished

" I haven't watched the vid yet but I thought Captain America was on hiatus until Rebirth was finished "

" @Obsurity said:

" I haven't watched the vid yet but I thought Captain America was on hiatus until Rebirth was finished "

After this issue it will be.  A nice story but I don't get why it was put out now. "

Since Rebirth I've been back tracking reading the TPB to see Bucky progress as Cap. Ed Brubaker has done a great job with what I read so far but I don't see myself getting into this issue. I am curious to see his artwork but from what I saw in the vid. It didn't look spectacular. Yeah, it does seem like Marvel had to ink out a little more money before the hiatus.

G-Man, Gene Colan has always been known to draw like that. He draws his faces and bodies like they're stressed out at the moment or contorted during action, or as if he drew them with a single line without his pencil leaving the page. But, he's got legions of fans, many who've been influenced to become artists. He draws like he was influenced by political caricaturists. I've got an Atom story from the sixties that he drew where Atom v.s. Dr. Light, and another one he did with Power Man and Swordsman, and his artwork still looks that way, and people said it then, too. He draws like a political cartoonist or a caricaturist, but he draws cool mechanical stuff, too.

I loved the art. That changed everything for me. If the art wasn't so good, l would've been more upset.

Maybe my memory is just fuzzy because I don't recall Gene's art looking like that.
 
Here's a link to the video at the Cartoon Art Museum with Gene's art:
 
http://www.comicvine.com/news/g-man-visits-the-cartoon-art-museum-in-san-francisco-video/137879/

Maybe Mr. Colan's heart wasn't into the story and that's why the quality isn't that great.  I recall that vid and visit to the Museum, that was awesome.

Not a regular Cap fan so I'll pass on this

No, one of those issues I mentioned, if not the both of them, was drawn by Gil Kane, and NOT Gene Colan, but he has received similar comments about his artwork. The museum must be awesome. Win Mortimer and Mike Sekowsky would also get these kind of comments. It may be just because they can draw caricature style particularly well and it shows in their artwork.

"This was the issue that made me drop Cap.... I had enough of the flashbacks that didn't really add to anything and the art was so bad that I couldn't press on.  I understand that Gene Colan is a legend, and for his time, his work was great. But it was annoying to me in this issue. His faces were awful and the anatomy was way off. "

"@inferiorego said:

"This was the issue that made me drop Cap.... I had enough of the flashbacks that didn't really add to anything and the art was so bad that I couldn't press on.  I understand that Gene Colan is a legend, and for his time, his work was great. But it was annoying to me in this issue. His faces were awful and the anatomy was way off. "

same here, i'm not even a fan of Marvel bring Steve back this soon...

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"@The Hottness: Yeah, I was hoping they'd let Bucky come into his own for a while. 3 years isn't enough. "

I've always enjoyed the flashbacks of WW II , but from your review it didn't sound like really an exciting issue. Nor did it seem like anything was moving forward with the storyline. I'll take a gander of the issue and see if it's worth picking up.

" @inferiorego said:

"@The Hottness: Yeah, I was hoping they'd let Bucky come into his own for a while. 3 years isn't enough. "

My prediction is that Bucky will be Captain America with Steve Rogers. "

The art was terrible. A goddam mess.

This just didn't do it for me. I know they were just sitting on this book but it doesn't make sense to release it now. Okay issue and the art was great. Would have loved to get my hands on the black and white, the coloring kinda makes the  pencils seem flat.

Lets hope Bru doesnt disappoint. Id invest my faith in him taking Steve's death in the right direction if Joe Q doesnt have something different to say.

"This just didn't do it for me. I know they were just sitting on this book but it doesn't make sense to release it now. Okay issue and the art was great. Would have loved to get my hands on the black and white, the coloring kinda makes the  pencils seem flat. "

Good review. Looks interesting. I'm going to the comic store tomorrow but I'm not sure If i will get it.

"Lets hope Bru doesnt disappoint. Id invest my faith in him taking Steve's death in the right direction if Joe Q doesnt have something different to say."

I'm a huge Captain America, like many of you on the Vine know, and well...I didn't like the issue at all, I love WWII stories, I love seeing men and woman fighting for what they believe in, but this story was just domb, the art messed up the story bad to, with Hitch and Ross working on Cap's book, this art just couldn't live up to what Captain America fans have been used to. And the story, well where should I start? Brubaker has said that he likes WWII storys and has writen some vary good flashbacks to Cap's and Bucky's war times, but this was just bad, I would have just wanted to see Cap blowing up some tanks and fighting maybe Red Skull or some other villian, but Vampires! No, that's just really domb, I'm not that big of a vamprie fan, just don't see what's so cool about them (But that's just me), but Brubaker could have done something like he did with the Human Torch's body or something. But really if your loving Reborn and plan on buying the whole serie, you don't really have to buy this, if your collecting the whole Cap series then sure I guess your going to want to buy this, but for people just getting into the book, I would say pass on this, you won't be missing out on anything.

G-Man,

Where you watching Blossom at the beginning of this video?!?

i like ww2 cap &bucky books!

OMG!  STEVE ROGERS IS NOT A VAMPIRE, HE'S REALLY GOING TO RISE FROM THE GRAVE AND JOIN THE BLACK LANTERN CORPS............................THIS WAS A LAME CRAPPY ISSUE...I HATE FILTERS.....

"i like ww2 cap &bucky books! "

I liked it. I thought the artwork was cool.