Captain America: The End #1: Review

Feb 2020
Erik Larsen, Erik Larsen

Story Name:

The End of Captain America!

Review & Comments

Rating:
2.5 stars

Captain America: The End #1 Review by (February 5, 2020)

Review: Hey, this is I AM LEGEND! Richard Matheson’s classic novel by way of the movie with Will Smith. Beat for beat, note for note, this is I AM LEGEND! I paid five bucks for a rehash of I AM LEGEND! So, yeah, that’s what this is: Matheson’s vampire story with the additional stuff about a cure and other survivors from the movies. Oh, and the hero doesn’t die and in fact engineers a happy ending (for the non-Skull people, anyway) while doing a lot of patriotic speechifying. Erik Larsen’s (he’s the Savage Dragon guy) writing and art is okay but nothing special, definitely not enough to atone for the derivative plot.

Comments: Cap’s blood type is O negative. And there is no explanation as to why his blood is the cure—or if a cured person’s blood would work as well.






 

Synopsis / Summary / Plot

Captain America: The End #1 Synopsis by Peter Silvestro

Captain America is in a near-future world where a bioweapon of the Red Skull’s devising got out of hand, transforming everyone into maniacal replicas of the Red Skull linked by a hive mind that only wants to create a new world order. Now Cap is one man, standing alone against the hordes of Red Skulls, battling (but not killing) them wherever he finds them and now he falls through a floor and drops to a sub-basement where he finds human survivors. They are elderly Dr. Abe Jacobs and a handful of children, hiding from the Skull hordes; Cap explains the origins of the world-wide disaster but there is no cure for this extremely contagious virus. Then the Red Skulls attack and in the battle several of the kids are assimilated by the disease and teenage Marsha is shot. With the monsters held at bay for now, Dr. Jacobs is able to save Marsha’s life with a transfusion of Cap’s blood….

Desperate Cap leads the survivors (Dr. Jacob, the wounded Marsha, and little Sarah) out of the city and discovers a SHIELD Helicarrier wrecked on the ground. Cap enters alone and finds a Red Skull-infected MODOK controlling the Skull horde; in a brief battle, Cap kills his grotesque foe and gets his group to safety as the Helicarrier explodes. Outside they are surrounded by Red Skulls and Dr Jacobs and Sarah are assimilated. Cap pulls a piece of shrapnel from his leg and stabs Jacobs to get away with Marsha, the last kid still normal. Standing atop a hill, Cap comes to the realization that if he is the only normal person left and the battle is hopeless, then he is the monster, the one standing in the way of a new civilization. But then he sees Abe Jacobs in the crowd and realizes there must be a cure. Cap fight his way to Jacobs where he learns that it is his blood that is the cure. So more and more people are cured, humanity takes back the world and Cap spends his days donating blood in the name of freedom.  



Erik Larsen
Erik Larsen
Dono Sanchez Almara
Rahzzah (Cover Penciler)
Rahzzah (Cover Inker)
Rahzzah (Cover Colorist)
Letterer: Joe Caramagna.

Characters

Listed in Alphabetical Order.

Captain America
Captain America

(Steve Rogers)



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