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It is early but here are some Cap & Cap-related books....
CAPTAIN AMERICA #604
Written by ED BRUBAKER
Penciled by LUKE ROSS
Cover by GERALD PAREL
The penultimate chapter of TWO AMERICAS! As two Captain Americas clash in the heartland, the Falcon fights to stop a terrorist attack on American soil by the new Watchdogs! Plus, Nomad: Girl Without A World back-up by SEAN MCKEEVER and DAVID BALDEON.
40 PGS./Rated T+ ...$3.99
Avengers stuff....
AVENGERS VS. ATLAS #3 (of 4)
Written by JEFF PARKER & PAUL CORNELL
Penciled by GABRIEL HARDMAN & PETER VALE
Cover by HUMBERTO RAMOS
Variant Cover by ANDREW ROBINSON
The original Avengers and the Agents of Atlas find that the chronovirus is accelerating, affecting the entire world. As the past continues to collide with the present, the man...or thing behind it must be stopped...or an Avenger will DIE! PLUS, A BONUS BACKUP: VENUS answers your favorite heroes’ love queries, courtesy of Paul Cornell and Peter Vale!
32 PGS./Rated T+ ...$3.99
ULTIMATE COMICS NEW ULTIMATES #1
Written by JEPH LOEB
Pencils & Gatefold Cover by FRANK CHO
Villain Variant by LEINIL FRANCIS YU
Foilogram Variant by FRANK CHO
If only a few super heroes survived the Ultimatum -- who is left to become the next super powered team to be reckoned with? The NEW Ultimates! With Thor gone, Loki takes his revenge unleashing the worst of Asgard on Earth. Iron Man must gather the heroes for their biggest Ultimates adventure yet. But who has made the final cut? And who can't be trusted? The Ultimates face evil once again and you'll never guess the new enemies they'll find...or should we say old friends? Superstar creators, JEPH LOEB and FRANK CHO (in his Ultimate Comics debut!) bring you the new face of the Ultimate line in NEW ULTIMATES: THOR REBORN!
32 PGS./Parental Advisory ...$3.99
Golden Age and Invaders-related...
THE MARVELS PROJECT #7 (of 
Written by ED BRUBAKER
Pencils and Cover by STEVE EPTING
Cover by STEVE MCNIVEN
Variant by GERALD PAREL
Cap meets Bucky! The origin of the Destroyer! The interrogation of the Sub-Mariner! And it's all leading up to the Nazis'
conspiracy to bring the US into World War Two!
32 PGS./Rated T+ ...$3.99
THE TWELVE: SPEARHEAD
Written by CHRIS WESTON
Penciled by CHRIS WESTON
Cover by PAOLO RIVERA
Europe, 1945: Captain America leads a mission to destroy the Nazis' missile program...and The Phantom Reporter wants in! An untold tale from Marvel's Golden Age featuring the forgotten heroes who would go on to become "The Twelve"!
40 PGS./One-Shot/Rated T+ ...$3.99
THE TORCH #6 (of
Written by ALEX ROSS & MIKE CAREY
Penciled by PATRICK BERKENKOTTER
Cover by ALEX ROSS
A Funeral in Berlin, part 1 of 3
The Torch may not truly be alive, but now he's dying,
condemned by the same chemical agent that defeated the Thinker's artificial virus. His only chance? To follow a seventy-year-old trail into the depths of the Bolivian jungle, and face a monstrous parody of himself in a battle to the death!!
32 PGS./Rated T+ ...$3.99
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| Posted: 22 Dec 2009 16:15 |
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Those are some nice covers!
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| Posted: 22 Dec 2009 20:07 |
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I love these Cap Preview threads!
Very cool, thanks for doing them. 
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GRRRRR! WHEN ARE THEY GOING TO FINISH THE TWELVE!
I mean come on, another 12 issue, but still no resolution to the main arc?
Who killed the Blue Blade!
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Yea you are right. I was enjoying the Twelve when "poof" no mor issues. what did happen? someone sue someone?
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I think the artist, Chris Weston, went on hiatus from the title to do some movie work. He did art for that new Denzil Washington movie coming out.
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Well, if one looks at the full Marvel solicits, it certainly looks like Iron Man's month as they push product in time for the new movie but there is more than enough Cap stuff to blow my budget....
SIEGE #3 ( of 4 )
Written by BRIAN MICHAEL BENDIS
Pencils & Cover by OLIVIER COIPEL
Variant Cover by GABRIELE DELL'OTTO
Variant Cover by JOE QUESADA
Sketch Variant Cover by JOE QUESADA
The Marvel blockbuster of the year!!
In the halls of Asgard and on the streets of small town America the entire Universe is gripped
in a the greatest battle ever seen: SIEGE!! Lives
have been lost! Lines have been drawn! And the
battle for Asgard is in full force. The moment for
revelations and life-changing moves is here, and for some, this will be the last choice they ever make in this world. What happens next is so epic, so historic, that it changes the entire dynamic of the Marvel Universe. You're gonna want to be there for this one...trust us.
40 PGS./Cardstock Cover/Rated T+ ...$3.99
AVENGERS:
THE INITIATIVE #34
Written by CHRISTOS GAGE
Penciled by JORGE MOLINA
Cover by DAVID YARDIN
SIEGE BLOCKBUSTER TIE-IN!!
In Asgard, Taskmaster clashes with Captain America! Meanwhile, the battle for Camp H.A.M.M.E.R. reaches a fever pitch...but whose side is Penance on? And will Night Thrasher betray his friends to get back his brother? This is the story that changes the Initiative forever!
32 PGS./Rated T+ ...$2.99
HARDCOVERS & TRADES....
MARVEL MASTERWORKS: CAPTAIN AMERICA VOL. 5 HC
Written by STAN LEE
Penciled by GENE COLAN
Cover by GENE COLAN
It’s a twelve-pack of Captain America classics as only the Marvel Masterworks can bring them to you! Draped in the red, white and blue, there’s no character in all of comics who represents America like Cap, and within these pages two of Marvel’s greatest creators set him on a path through the tumultuous ’70s that bears a character’s, and a nation’s, soul. In story after story Stan Lee and Gene Colan push the envelope for adventure as Cap goes behind enemy lines in Vietnam; teams with the Falcon to oppose the radical Diamondheads; and then sets out on a coast-to-coast road trip full of motorcycle gangs, rock festivals and the Red Skull! The excitement reaches fever pitch when the long, lost Bucky Barnes returns! Free from the guilt of his partner’s death, Cap’s slate is wiped clean, however, anything but a normal life is ahead—because Baron Strucker, Dr. Doom and M.O.D.O.K. are tied up in Bucky’s return. Before the story’s done you’ll witness Cap vs. Bucky, the origin of M.O.D.O.K. and the beginning of the Captain America/Falcon team! Featuring guest appearances by Nick Fury, the Incredible Hulk and Peter Parker, and villains from Batroc to the Mole Man and the Monster Ape, they’re classics one and all. Collecting CAPTAIN AMERICA #125-136
248 PGS./All Ages ...$54.99
ISBN: 978-0-7851-4200-3
MARVEL MASTERWORKS: CAPTAIN AMERICA VOL. 5 HC
VARIANT EDITION VOL. 139
248 PGS./All Ages ...$54.99
ISBN: 978-0-7851-4201-0
CAPTAIN AMERICA: AMERICA FIRST HC
Written by HOWARD CHAYKIN, DANIEL KNAUF, CHARLES KNAUF, KYLE HIGGINS & ALEC SIEGEL
Penciled by HOWARD CHAYKIN, MITCH BREITWEISER & AGUSTIN PADILLA
Cover by HOWARD CHAYKIN
Collecting three exciting tales exploring the storied history of America’s greatest champion. First, Howard Chaykin pulls back the Iron Curtain on one of Captain America's wiliest nemeses—Soviet Russia and her never-ending parade of spies, saboteurs and fifth columnists. Next, it’s 1944 and them sneaky Nazis have managed to crack the secrets of electro-magnetic physics...yeah, that's right: apples may fall down in the free world, but schnitzels are falling up in the skies over a mysterious lab in a Polish forest, thanks to a little help from a nearby forced-labor camp. Sure, we could send in the Marines, but why bother when we've got Captain America?! Plus: Wounded behind enemy lines, Captain America faces one of his greatest challenges yet—
escaping a Nazi POW camp...as Steve Rogers! Collecting CAPTAIN AMERICA: AMERICA FIRST, OPERATION ZERO POINT and PRISONERS OF DUTY.
128 PGS./Rated T+ ...$19.99
ISBN: 978-0-7851-3906-5
Trim size: oversized
CAPTAIN AMERICA: REBORN PREMIERE HC
Written by ED BRUBAKER
Penciled by BRYAN HITCH & BUTCH GUICE
Covers by BRYAN HITCH & JOE QUESADA
Following the events of Captain America #600, Steve Rogers’ closest friends and allies may have found a way to bring back the original Captain America. Or is what they found something more sinister? The Red Skull’s greatest plan to destroy Captain America has been in motion and its completion is almost at hand. Will Captain America be lost forever or will he be REBORN? Collecting CAPTAIN AMERICA: REBORN #1-6 and CAPTAIN AMERICA REBORN: PRELUDE digital comic.
168 PGS./Rated T+ ...$24.99
ISBN: 978-0-7851-3998-0
Trim size: standard
CAPTAIN AMERICA: REBORN PREMIERE HC QUESADA VARIANT (DM ONLY)
168 PGS./Rated T+ ...$24.99
ISBN: 978-0-7851-4349-9
NOMAD: GIRL WITHOUT A WORLD GN-TPB
Written by SEAN MCKEEVER with ED BRUBAKER
Penciled by DAVID BALDEON with RAFAEL ALBUQUERQUE
Cover by RAFAEL ALBERQUERQUE
In her world, RIKKI BARNES was the modern-day BUCKY, teen sidekick to CAPTAIN AMERICA. In this world, the Cap she knew is dead, she never existed, and very little else is as she remembers. With no home, no income and no legal identity, what's a girl to do? How about tracking down the new Cap, reconnecting with her brother, and
running afoul of the SECRET EMPIRE? Sounds like a plan to us! Collecting NOMAD: GIRL WITHOUT A WORLD #1-4 and material from CAPTAIN AMERICA #600.
104 PGS./Rated A ...$14.99
ISBN: 978-0-7851-4419-9
CAPTAIN AMERICA: WINTER SOLDIER ULTIMATE COLLECTION TPB
Written by ED BRUBAKER
Penciled by STEVE EPTING, MIKE PERKINS & MICHAEL LARK
Cover by STEVE EPTING
A midnight call to duty brings Captain America aboard the S.H.I.E.L.D Heli-carrier to identify the corpse of his most feared adversary: the Red Skull! The shocking murder of Cap’s oldest enemy may not be the end of the Skull’s plans, however, because whoever shot the Skull has stolen his final project: an unfinished Cosmic Cube with the potential power to alter reality itself. Adding to the imminent danger, a cadre of the Skull’s followers has already set in motion a plan to ignite bombs in the hearts of Paris, London and Manhattan – causing untold death and destruction. Racing against these bombs’ rapidly ticking clocks, the Star-Spangled Avenger must not only solve the mystery of his nemesis’ murder, but find the Cube before it can be used in the Red Skull’s malevolent plot against the United States! Then, the questions plaguing Captain America's dreams and memories have been answered in the most brutal way possible. And in the wake of this brutality, General Lukin makes his first all-out assault – tearing open old wounds and threatening to make new scars that will never heal! Collecting CAPTAIN AMERICA #1-9 & #11-14.
304 PGS./Rated T+ ...$24.99
ISBN: 978-0-7851-4341-3
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Finally, Cap fights Taskmaster. During Gruenwald's run on Cap, Taskmaster was suppose to go up against Cap, from what I remember reading in one of those preview magazines on comics or whatever Diamond distribution put out then, but that never happened.
This was after John Walker returned the Cap costume and shield to Rogers. Taskmaster was brought in earlier to train Walker to fight like Rogers.
Would be fun to read the greatest fighter battling a photographic-reflex person.
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I always loved the Taskmaster. People point out that he could only fight a hero to a standstill if he was duplicating their moves but I say he would just switch to another style to beat that hero (or cost him the battle).
I'll probably buy the NOMAD trade since I'm such a completist with my Cap stuff. Like THE AMERICAN DREAM series earlier in the year, it seems to be aimed at younger readers like teens but I've been buying the floppies/monthlies and the series is pretty "meh" right now. Basic stuff about teen rebellion against mass thinking and I didn't really expect much with Sean McKeever writing it as he helped kill THE TEEN TITANS for me over at DC with his formula stories. And, I guess, we'll now have to put up with this as a back up in the regular Cap series for an extra dollar. Ugh!
I'm not sure if we need a Winter Soldier Ultimate Collection? I guess this is like the Brubaker Omnibus Volume One PART ONE trade paperback.
That Joe Quesada art for the variant on REBORN cracks me up. It always looks like Cap is trying to squeeze out a poop or something.
THE TORCH: I'm actually digging this series more than Ross and his Dynamite crew's previous collab, AVENGERS/INVADERS. I still think, when all is said and done, in maybe a year or two, we'll have the old school Invaders back together again for a series.
THE TWELVE ONE-SHOT: I knew artist Chris Weston was working again on THE TWELVE after his movie stuff had finished and I assume he was the hold up and the reason for the hiatus. But it is interesting that JMS isn't writing this and now has gone off in a huff from Marvel and is working with DC now (Essentially, he didn't want Marvel Editorial forcing an event down his throat with his work on THOR which is what SIEGE now is). JMS is known for not being a very good finisher so if he is now the hang up on THE TWELVE, I say time to find another writer Weston is comfortable with and wrap it up. Marvel owns THE TWELVE. Not JMS. No need to hold a book and fans hostage because a creator is having a snit over something.
NEW ULTIMATES: I'm not thrilled that Loeb is back writing The Ultimates. He doesn't seem to be doing very much good work lately but always manages to get top-notch artists on his books so they always turn into love/hate books with just a bunch of pretty pictures to look at.
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The Captain America vs Taskmaster cover is awesome. Hope the issue is as good as the cover.
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