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By Dante' Maddox |
Ah time travel, every writers favorite plot device. Marty McFly would have been proud of Captain America and the Invaders for making their way to current times and landing smack dab in the middle of the aftermath of Civil War. |
Issue one of this twelve part series get’s off to a great start as the story focuses on Bucky and his perspective on the war that they are fighting (World War II). All of the Invaders are there at first and how Bucky introduces each player to the reader is really cool. What’s a little lame however is the how.
What I mean to say is the way time travel was introduced into the story was a little weak. Time travel is overdone in general, and it weakens some stories that over use it. In this first issue, the Invaders walk through some green gas and end up in 2008. It’s not really a bad thing, but it would have been cooler if they had put more into how they got to the future. Green gas? Lame.
Despite that the rest of the story is pretty good as we get introduced to Spider-Man fighting against the Thunderbolts as a segue into the future aspect of the story. The fight scene is weird because Spidey is really getting his butt kicked, but the dialogue doesn’t match the action. Spider-Man shoots out all this obligatory trash talk while getting pummeled into the ground. After a while that gets to become annoying as I began to wonder what the point was.
Finally towards the end of the book the Invaders show up on the scene along with the aforementioned green ‘time travel’ gas that just so happened to drop them off in New York at that particular time. Never mind the fact that they were in Europe when they touched the green gas, they at least should have ended up in modern day Europe, but no this is special time travel gas that knows exactly where you need to be without telling it.
What is cool about this first issue is it gives us a chance to see Iron Man and Spider-Man deal with the return of Captain America before he actually returns. I’m hoping that the following issues in this series really explore that aspect of the story and the character. I can easily get over the lame green gas as time travel gag, here’s hoping that they use the Dolorian to get them back, that would make it all better.
Writer: Jim Krueger
Pencils: Steve Sadowski
Publisher: Marvel Comics
Cover Price: $2.99
Series Count: 1 of 12
Crave Online Rating: 4 out of 10
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