The long-delayed fourth issue of Ed Brubaker and Steve McNiven's Captain America has finally seen shelves, and it was worth the wait for McNiven's art alone.
Picking up where the last issue left off, Cap is stuck in the strange dream world created by his former WW2 squad mate. This us quite a departure from the Ed Brubaker Cap tails of old, but it's also a very welcome change of pace for the character. Not to mention it allows Steve McNiven to draw the craziest things he can. A sequence towards the beginning of the issue has Steve walking through a street with a reporter. As he walks he notices a strange crack in a wall, when he walks towards it, pieces of his suit start emerging on his skin, until he has his full Captain America outfit on. This scene was expertly done, and reminded me a lot of Inception, one of my all time favorite movies. The final installment of this storyline is in the next issue, and I cannot wait to see what other crazy concepts Brubaker and McNiven can come up with.
What else is there to say about Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo's Batman that I haven't already? This is, simply put, one of the best Batman stories of all time, and will quite possibly end up being a career-defining run for both Snyder and Capullo. We get more glimpses into the mysterious "Court Of Owls", and my god, are they creepy. Capullo's style on this book is definitely unique, and I personally love it. This is the best of the new DC books.
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