Captain America #1 Review

Writer: Ta-Nehisi Coates / Artist: Lenil Francis Yu/ Marvel Comics Captain America #1 starts a new run for one of Marvel’s greatest heroes with a highly anticipated creative team at the helm comprised of Ta-Nehisi Coates and Lenil Francis Yu. Not only does this combo represent two people of color telling the story of America’s favorite hero, but it gives Coates another opportunity to use his extensive experience covering politics and social thought in comic book form alongside his work with the Black Panther. If you’re like a lot of us who didn’t read Secret Empire for… reasons… Captain America #1 does a good job catching you up to the story and washing the taste of the run out of your mouth just in case you did happen to check it out. An event as massive as HYDRA taking over control of the United States, then losing that power, is sure to have some major consequences. With HYDRA mostly out of the way, the world is out of balance and a power vacuum has appeared, with plenty of contenders throwing their names in contention for the spot as the next potential conquerors of the world.

Meanwhile, Steve Rogers is dealing with a country full of people who look at his face and see the same face that led HYDRA during the hostile takeover. Sure, it wasn’t him and most of them know that. But their perceptions are what they are and he’s mostly helpless to change that. A lot of players are introduced in Captain America #1, but the supporting characters are especially used well to mov…