4.5 stars. A great book and the best telling of Captain America or any Marvel character I've ever read except maybe Brubaker's Daredevil. Who would have thought that a character with such a stupid name could be so awesome to read about. I've read so much Brubaker recently, he is just flawless with his plots and the art in this volume was great. Most of the characters were great and the best ones got the most airtime. I really want to see more of the winter solider, he's so badass, but I'm really...

What really need be said here? You've got Ed Brubaker and Steve Epting, one of the best creative teams out there, creating the seminal Captain America run. You've got The Red Skull, the origin of The Winter Soldier, plenty of WWII flashbacks, big battles and intrigue. Always intrigue. And It's just getting started too.Brubaker's style seems to have had more influence than previously realized, for this run heralds the coming of a darker Marvel universe. From rebel Avengers to Normans Thunderbolts...

Hmm, adding this volume seems a quicker way than trying to figure out which TPB collections were in it... not so good for my annual reading target, but hey. Saves cluttering this up with a dozen TPBs.Captain America. Never thought I'd enjoy it, but I read one in one of the crossover events, and was interested enough to go and read the rest. And lo and behold I suddenly found myself really enjoying this series.

This is a much-loved run that I always meant to get around to... someday... so I went all in on the Omnibus, the first 700+ pages of Brubaker's Captain America. It was a good choice.Ultimately, it's too war, too murder, too masc4masc for me to really take to heart as an all-time personal favorite, but I can't fault it for quality or ambition. It reads more like a good novel than probably any Marvel comic, ever, while still being rooted in the character's history.

Ed Brubaker's run on Captain America is historic for many reasons.The chief of these being the return of Bucky Barnes as the Winter Soldier. This change has been felt on television and of course in the recent film. Brubaker's storytelling is bold, daring, and in-your face. The 1st Issue features the mad-schemeing of the Red Skull and ends with the Skull getting a bullet through his brain. From there, we're on a dark journey for Cap, his friends, and allies, as Cap hopes to find a little bit of B...

Let me preface this by saying, I'm a person who has never been overly fond of the character that is Captain America simply because his origin is WW2 and fighting Nazis (boring), and in the words of Loki, Captain America is the type of person only interested in having "a rousing discussion about truth, honor, patriotism. God bless America!". Captain America is traditionally a character who sees everything in black and white. However, I picked this up because it contains Winter Soldier and Winter

This was my first time reading a Cap solo book and I’m glad I started here. The writing is excellent - it’s engaging and entertaining.It’s as a grounded as a Marvel book can be. It treats the character with respect and doesn’t shy away from the silliness and the fantastic elements that surround him. Again, just great stuff. The art is also pretty consistent throughout in this first omni. Long runs can often suffer from inconsistencies, but this one doesn’t disappoint.We deal with a lot of villai...

Collecting issues 1-25 and the Winter Solider: Winter Kills one shot, this collection is a great place to start for anyone wanting to get into Captain America.I never much got into Cap Am. I knew who he was, sure, and I’d read some Avengers work with him in it… but he never seemed that interesting to me. A super soldier who wears a flag and tosses a shield around… it has it’s charms, but not much appeal to me. I picked up this volume after consistently hearing the critical praise for the run, no...

Brubaker's a good writer; that's an absolute given. And he understands the character of Captain America; that's arguable, but a fair assessment in my opinion.But sometimes, just because you can do something doesn't mean you should do it.I liked the resurrection of Bucky storyline ("Winter Soldier") more than I thought I would, though I always conceded it to be a good idea.Exploring what an icon like Captain America is, and what the loss of him would mean to this country is a good idea. But in ki...

4.5 starsI mostly wanted to read this for the Winter Soldier storyline, and oh I'm glad I did! That was amazing, writing at its best! I absolutely loved all the flashbacks and the background to how Bucky became the Winter Soldier (Bucky has really become a favorite character of mine by now). Steve has also really grown on me (at least this version). Also since I'd already read the Civil War issues on their own, they now finally made sense and it was nice to see the build up of the entire series

I cheated.I'd recently read Captain America: Winter Soldier Ultimate Collection, so I did the skim, skim, skim thing over the first half of this book.This sucker is a BEAST !If you want to read the Winter Soldier storyline right up till the Death of Captain America, then grab this behemoth.It stops after issue #25, so you're not going to get to read about the fallout from his death. I'm personally heading over to Captain America: The Death of Captain America, Vol. 1: The Death of the Dream ne...

This thing is massive. 27 issues in all (Captain America 1-25, the 65th anniversary special, and the Winter Soldier one-shot). It's got the entire Winter Soldier storyline, all the way through the Civil War stuff. I had already read the first half or so of the Winter Soldier story in a different trade. I remember saying in the 90s, "Nobody in comics is really dead, except Jason Todd, Bucky, and Uncle Ben." It's a much shorter phrase now. But I'll be honest, although the idea of resurrecting Buck...

Wow, what a read, great pacing and although the latter few issues is somewhat badly affected by the Civil War event, the ending is a bit of a year jerker in a way. Ed Brubaker shines here with his take on the spy genre. I'll definitely read this again and again.

Great Captain America run (and absolutely essential for Winter Soldier fans). There are a few filler issues here and I wish the actual fight between Cap and Bucky was a bit more epic, though (it's definitely a "blink and you miss it" fight).

So good! Really lives up to the Hype... Brubaker is the best.1 Down, 4 to go :)

Brubaker takes the trope of Cap as 'man out of time' and works it masterfully, allowing longtime readers like myself to learn something new about the greatest Avenger. By taking us through memories of World War II, we learn about how Steve Rogers, just an eighteen year-old recruit became the leader he is seen as today, and we learn much more about who and what Bucky was to Cap's missions in Europe.Brilliant storytelling by Brubaker is elevated by Epting's art, who brings grittiness and shadows t...

Brubaker did the impossible: he made Bucky a badass. Captain America has never been this good, and likely never will be again.

Ed Brubaker's Captain America run has been pretty astonishing, not just because of the solid level of craft involved, but because he's managed to do what every writer who has written Cap for the last 10 or so years has said they were going to do: Incorporate politics, action and superheroes and do it well. A little Tom Clancy, a little 24, and a lot of Marvel characters.This is the start of Brubaker's run, but it's also the swansong for Steve Rogers, the original Captain America. This hardcover

Ed Brubaker, Steve Epting, and Michael Lark had the audacity to bring back Bucky from the dead, and tell some of the best Captain America stories ever. This book, the first part of a lengthy run by Brubaker as writer, was so good that it formed the foundation of the movie, Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014), a movie and comic nerds would argue would be in the running for the best comic book movie ever.This collected edition is a book that invites itself well as a binge read, not only are...

This is a really nice collection. It’s been awhile since I read an epic collection like this. It was cool how there were separate stories, but it was really one long story. I’m wondering if the writer intended it to be collected and read it one massive book. The art is really fantastic. The Artist seems to be able to switch between action and talking no problem. He also does the fighting scenes really well. I always imagine Captain America would move through a fight with the violence of a lineba...