victoria.p's Reviews > Captain America: Truth - Red, White & Black

** spoiler alert ** It doesn't get a full five stars because I feel like the art was too cartoony for such a serious story, which is heartbreaking, and I think, a painful but necessary revision of the Catpain America mythos. I love the retcon of Captain America's origins, as obscene and awful as the story is, of the government experimenting on Black soldiers to create the super soldier serum, killing off the soldiers they didn't need and watching as the serum destroyed the soldiers they tested it on one by one.

Isaiah Bradley is the final, successful candidate, and he steals the Captain America uniform to go on a mission and the government treats him poorly for it, though he was doing a necessary job. I especially liked how Faith, his wife, calls Steve out on not knowing the story, because being frozen in a glacier is no excuse for not knowing, not when he'd been back for a couple of years at that point.