Captain America: Red, White & Blue [Paperback]

Paul Dini (Author), Mark Waid (Author), Max Allen Collins (Author), Bruce Jones (Author), Alex Ross (Illustrator), Bruce Timm (Illustrator), Frank Quitley (Illustrator), Pasqual Ferry (Illustrator)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 10, 2007

In this thought-provoking original graphic novel, a world-class collection of top comic-book creators from around the globe presents a series of uniquely personal visions of the heroic icon that is Captain America! Red,White & Blue roams between the humorous and the serious, the farcical and the personal invoking the power people give over to Captain America. In all, more than 50 creators have crafted timeless stand-alone stories each told with a color palette limited to Cap's signature colors of red, white and blue! In addition to these original short stories, this anthology reprints the back-up stories in Captain America #50 (2002) And Marvel Spotlight: Captain America Remembered.

Product Details

• Paperback: 200 pages
• Publisher: Marvel (October 10, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0785128972
• ISBN-13: 978-0785128977
• Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 0.4 x 10.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,305,064 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Jen Van Meter was born in 1968 in Fresno, California. She began writing comics professionally in 1997, while in the University of Oregon's graduate program in English. She has worked with Oni Press, for whom she wrote several successful tie-ins to the 2000 film The Blair Witch Project, and who have published her Hopeless Savages stories, one of which has been nominated for an Eisner Award and all of which have been selected for recommended reading lists by Young Adult librarians' groups. She has also written short runs and limited series for DC Comics, many of which have been collected in trade format.

She lives in Portland, Oregon, with her husband, fellow writer Greg Rucka, and their family.

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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A fun riff on the Captain America mythos, February 24, 2007

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DJ Joe Sixpack (...in Middle America) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Captain America: Red, White and Blue (Hardcover)

This deluxe celebration of Captain America, in all his red-white-&-blue glory, features contributions by dozens of top comicbook artists, including Paul Dini and Alex Ross, Frank Quitely, Max Allan Collins, Bill Sienkiewicz, David Lloyd and others. To a surprising degree, many of these tributes take a light, irreverent tone, poking fun at Cap's "boy scout" image, or (more predictably) probing the contradictary cross-currents of patriotism, tolerance and patriotic dissent, with Cap's dual role as democratic torchbearer and militaristic icon. There are several campy gems, including Evan Dorkin's "Skull And Zemo," a villainous, chaotic romp with two of Cap's oldest and most static baddies, "Capsploitation," a what-if remake that casts CA and Falcon in a B-grade "Shaft" mode, as well as "Red Raid," a hilariously psychosexual fantasy piece... There are also some older, "classic" stories, and it is here that the book falls flat. The Lee/Kirby short, "The Fantastic Origin Of The Red Skull," is a swell gem from the "Tales Of Suspense" days, but other entries are disappointing... A hamfisted, poorly illustrated '80s-era tolerance lesson from Roger Stern and Frank Miller seems like a weak entry -- if you were going to reprint an emblematic story, what about the Watergate-era bombshell ("Captain America" #176) wherein Cap discovers the bad guy who'd been plaguing him for months was none other than the country's commander-in-chief (which led to his political disillusionment, and the subsequent, rather strained "Nomad" plotline...)...? Anyway, the book closes with a teaser from John Ney Rieber's post-9/11 "Enemy" saga, which is a high note to end on, even if it was a cliffhanger... All in all, if you're a Captain America fan, this is a pretty enjoyable book which, probably wisely, doesn't take the character's mythology too seriously. A fun read!

14 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars I enjoyed this very much, September 29, 2002

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This review is from: Captain America: Red, White and Blue (Hardcover)

This was a nice collection of stories. I especially enjoyed Evan Dorkin's humorous contribution. The reprints were unecessary. Any Cap collector worth his salt has them already. Why not give us two more original stories? Or if you MUST reprint something, why not reprint Joe Simon/Jack Kirby's original Cap stories? Or some 40's or 50's stories we've rarely seen?

The original stories here, however, are stellar. Worth the asking price for a nice hardcover.

3 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing book, March 1, 2009

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danny boy "dbswongv" (Singapore) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Captain America: Red, White & Blue (Paperback)

A compendium of different stories featuring several writers and artists.

This doesn't work for me. Most of the artwork featured here is goofy and experimental and frankly, too short. One huge chunk of the book features a text discussion and description on the death of Cap America which is really not part of a comic book.
This is Captain America in Heavy Metal style, acting more like a showcase for different sages out there.