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Of Embassies and Origins - Justice League International Part 2 (Eaglemoss Collection v77)

  Review: Since we are doing a series of reviews focusing on Booster Gold over his nearly 40-year history, we include this one as a collection of some of his earliest appearances, dating to late 1987. That places the original publish date of these tales while his original solo series was still going strong.  This book is a beautiful, glossy hard-cover with smooth and heavy-stock paper inside, although the sometimes-low print reproduction quality leads to blurred and hard to read word balloons on occasion. It is also a rare book here in North America, as Eaglemoss Collections targeted UK fans with this series. At this point in the history of the 1987-rebooted Justice League, they have gained official United Nations recognition and sanction. To ensure their reach truly is global, they rebrand as Justice League International (as does the title of the series!) and they open new headquarters buildings around the world: New York, Paris and Moscow are included here. As this is a product of 19
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The Proto-Cap - Review of Captain America by Dan Jurgens volume 2

 

Cover of Captain America by Dan Jurgens volume 2


Review:

Dan Jurgens is trained, skilled and accomplished as an artist. Yet his renown is as much or more for his writing, with his creation of the DC hero Booster Gold and especially for his multi-year runs on titles such as Superman, Thor and Captain America.

He handled both writing and pencil duties for much of his time on Captain America at the start of the millennium, and produced work so remarkable that here it is given the classy treatment, republished in a series of glossy and substantial volumes.

In this second volume, Captain America fights a series of battles against AIM and its chief muscleman, Protocide. This previously unknown graduate of the same Super Soldier program is bigger, stronger and much more psychotic than our hero. Even though Jurgens portrays Cap as nearly invulnerable, Protocide still beats him in hand-to-hand combat multiple times.

As eye-poppingly beautiful as Jurgens makes those and other fight scenes, and the occasional full-page poster of the brave, chiseled, embattled hero, it is the layered story and its relational tensions that make these pages shine.

As Steve Rogers, he is dating crack criminal defense lawyer Connie Ferrari. As Captain America, however, he and she do not see eye to eye on, oh, trivial things like the US Constitution. And when her deceased brother turns up alive and in control of nuclear missiles, Cap has no choice but to bring him in. Will their growing relationship survive these and more shocking revelations and tensions?

The action is vividly rendered, with striking one- and two-page spreads and saturated colors, all well-served and enhanced by the glossy printing. The quieter courtroom scenes and dating moments are just as visually dramatic. The evidence for why Jurgens and his work on this book are so fondly remembered positively jump off every page.


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Dan Jurgens continues chronicling some of the First Avenger's greatest adventures yet! When Captain America comes face-to-face with Protocide, he learns everything he knew about his origin is wrong! And Steve Rogers' girlfriend, Connie Ferrari, gets caught in the middle of an A.I.M. plot! Plus: Batroc, Hydra, Mercurio, the Crimson Dynamo, S.H.I.E.L.D. and Nick Fury!

Collects: Captain America (1998) #35-44 and Captain America Annual 2000 #1

Authors: Dan Jurgens
Artists: Dan Jurgens, Greg Scott
Published By: Marvel Comics
Published When: Nov. 5, 2015
Parental Rating: Teen
ISBN: 978-0785155409
Pages: 210 pages



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