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This is a surprisingly good read; it's a miniseries about the third Captain America in 616 continuity, Jeff Mace, the one who served with the All-Winners Squad. The standout moment for me is the part where he insists on going to a funeral in costume and giving a eulogy for his friend who was blue-ticketed out of the Navy for being gay and then killed himself -- and when he's told he can't do it as Cap because it will ruin Cap's reputation with the public and no one can ever be Cap again, he does...
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Karl Kesel sheds light onto the third replacement Captain America with his volume entitled Patriot. Jeff Mace was introduced into Marvel continuity in order to explain the appearances of Captain America following his World War II adventures - when he was supposed to be frozen in ice. Kesel allows the replacement to step into the spotlight, and demonstrate the hardships one faces in filling another man's shoes. New reporter Jeff Mace wanted to do more; inspired by Captain America, a brawling hero...
This grouping of comics is what got me into reading comics recently, and i love it for that. It has a brilliant story and outstanding art work that i haven't found a parallel to in comics. Still searching.. :)
A good solid tale of Jeff Mace, the man who was retconned intp Marvel history as the third Captain America. Mace fights more than one battle when he takes on the role and gives up being the costumed vigilante the Patriot. He loses a woman who loves him, the FBI agent in charge of the program distrusts him, and Cap's former teammates either patronize or dismiss him entirely. Karl Kessel shows that while he hasn't been writing very much lately that he remains a solid storyteller.
I quite enjoyed this, to be honest.I didn't know anything about Jeff Mace. I don't know much about the Captain Americas aside from Steve, Sam and Bucky. I quite liked Jeff as a character though. Cap inspired him and he became Patriot as a way to carry on Cap's work in America. He stood for something. Even when it appeared that the world wouldn't be okay with him supporting a man that was blue ticketed (in this case, for suspicion of homosexuality), he showed up in the PAtriot uniform anyway. He
Okay I just don't know how to properly rate a graphic novel. Picked this up for a reading challenge, and I'd say that though I don't have much Marvel background apart from the movies, I enjoyed reading this. :)
Karl Kesel si concentra su Jeff Mace, il super eroe della WWII già noto come Patriota, che succederà a William Naslund come Capitan America. Sarà il terzo a fregiarsi del titolo, ma che uomo era, in fondo?La sceneggiatura è molto buona ed è pure in continuity, cosa decisamente importante per il sottoscritto. I disegni sono eccellenti, hanno quel senso di retrò pur essendo, in effetti, molto attuali.
Here we have a drop back in time (both literally in some reprinted material and story wise in the fill in material). Captain America as all his fans know (and now many movie goers) was frozen in suspended animation near the end of WWII. But there's a glitch. At the end of WWII and through the 1950s there were Captain America adventures. There were The Invaders who fought throughout WWII and there was the All Winner Squad through the '50s.How is this possible? That would be telling.(view spoiler)...
Kesel has done a great job of recreating the 1940s and 1950s with a very modern feeling tale, and in the course filling in a lost chapter in the history of Captain America. The characters shine, as does the plot. Roy Thomas’ original story doesnt’ hold up as well, but he did do a great job in setting up the Captain America legacy which many writers have delved into since.
Captain America: Patriot is an interesting history lesson for Marvel fans as we get a nice look into the history of Cap, not Steve Rogers. Jeff Mace is a hero and its nice to see his history. Karl Kesel does a great job with that history lesson, although he does do quite a bit of info dumping. I was surprised by how much I was invested in a tale I "knew". The art, by Mitch Breitweiser, was wonderful and an exact match for the story. Overall, a very good look into a rarely talked about time in Ca...
Kesel Does Cap a'la Brubaker better than Brubaker.Superb art by Breitweiser ties this back-story in with the look and feel of Brubaker's recent work in Captain America. And the writing does too. This was an good story about Jeff Mace, originally the Patriot who for awhile tried to play the role of Captain America.Slightly choppy though it was to read, this story has heart.
An okay what if story...
Back in the 1970s, Roy Thomas retconned that Captain America's post-war 1940s adventures were the work of other men wearing the cowl, the third-string super-hero Spirit of '76 and the second-string Patriot. This miniseries looks at the career of the Patriot from reporter Jeff Mace's early decision to fight crime in a mask through his transition to the Captain America role and his uneasy efforts to live up to a legend. Surprisingly happy though, author Karl Kesel liking the idea that Mace was abl...
Captain America: Patriot collects Captain America: Patriot #1-4, The 70th Anniversary All Winners Squad #1, and What If? Volume 1 #4 What If? #4 is at the back of the book and it contains the story in which Roy Thomas tried to explain the fact that while Stan Lee retconned Cap as being frozen in ice during World War II, he continued to have comic adventures years after the war. The explanation was that there were idifferent Captain Americas who took up a shield. This book focuses on Jeff Mace, t...
