Last week brought to a close a 6-issue (originally planned for 5) mini-series from Marvel Comics, Captain America: Reborn. The series chronicles the aftermath of the death of Steve Rogers and the events surrounding Captain America #600. I won’t go into the details of the story here, but the mainstream press coverage of The Death of Captain America piqued my interest and got me back into collecting comics. I probably wouldn’t consider myself a true collector per se, as I’m just slowly picking up mini-series that I like. Anyway, I grabbed the camera and snapped some shots of the all covers I was able to get. Most issues included several variant, limited-edition covers by other artists. I was fortunate to pick up most of them, but I think I’m missing three, so that’ll give me a something to search for as I poke around local comic shops. The photos aren’t that great because of the flash, but there is definitely some cool artwork in here. Enjoy.
One interesting thing, issues 1-4 all say “# of 5″ and then issue 5 says “5 of 6″. I guess the writers didn’t know they were going to 6 issues until they were at issue #5. Seems kind of weird, but a neat tidbit when looking at the collection as a whole.
If you’re looking to get back into the swing of things, you might want to try out ‘Invincible’ from Image Comics. Artwork is clean, the story is a fresh spin on superheroes, there’s only 70 or so issues (pick up the trades), and it’s everything Spider-Man used to be…