The creative team of
writer Mark Waid and artist Ron Garney were the best thing to happen to
Captain America since World War II, and they proved it again in Captain
America: Sentinel of Liberty. Waid riffs on fifty-plus years of Cap
continuity to explore the depth and meaning of Captain America as a man
and a symbol, without crossing the line into Watchmen-style pathology or
overzealous fanboyism. Garney’s art continues to amaze, fusing the
dynamism of Jack Kirby, the cinematic pacing of Jim Steranko, and the
lyricism of Alex Schomburg—Cap’s three finest artistic
interpreters—into a fluid, eye-pleasing style that packs a knockout
punch (and offers an excellent escape route from the artistic cul-de-sac
that the Marvel style has become in the 1990s).
