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Sam Wilson, Captain America (2025 series) #5

on-sale: May 7, 2025
Greg Pak | Eder Messias

Sam Wilson, Captain America (2025 series) #5 cover

Story Name:

Better Angels, Part 5


Synopsis

Sam Wilson, Captain America (2025 series) #5 synopsis by Peter Silvestro
Rating: 4 stars

The Skydream begins attacking the Bronx and the farms aboard it burn. In the Moria command center, the heroes (Captain America (Sam Wilson), Billie Wilson, Shadow Soldier, Patriot (Elijah Bradley), and Falcon (Joaquin Torres) plus Robert Maverick) appeal to CEO Dennis Harmon to stop but he won’t. Harmon unleashes the griffins on them. Sam Cap directs one of them to claw Maverick which triggers his transformation into the Red Hulk. He assaults Harmon’s force field, rupturing it and causing an explosion that hurls everyone into the sky above Manhattan and plummeting. Several of them have wings but not Shadow Soldier; then Hulk surprises everyone by sprouting wings, given him as one of Harmon’s experiments, and he catches SS. Billie confronts Harmon on his floating escape platform and he declines to help avert the disaster he has caused. Then Harmon is eaten up by a sky shark and the heroes are left alone.

Sam calls the shots: Patriot and Falcon to destroy the jamming towers, Red Hulk to stop the laser cannon attacking the city, while the others evacuate the farmers. Shadow Soldier uses his Darkforce energy to take down the remaining winged guards on the Skywhale. Billie confronts Dr. Cangza, who makes her own contribution to the rescue: she fires injections that cause Billie and the female prisoners to sprout wings. Sam alerts the Avengers to the danger around the nation so Black Panther, War Machnine, and Storm arrive to fight the Skydream platforms in Washington, Detroit, and Atlanta (respectively)….

After the danger is past, the heroes work together to settle the farmers back on the main Skydream platform. Cap and Billie visit Gramps and recruit him to advise the farmers then bring the clientele of the soup kitchen to the farms as well. And the story ends with praise for teamwork and Sam Cap and Billie flying off together….


Characters
Good (or All)
BLACKPANTHER
SAMCAP
FALCONJOAQUIN
RHRM
STORM
WARMACHINE
Plus: Billie Wilson (Wilhelmina Wilson), Isaiah Bradley, Patriot (Elijah Bradley), Shadow Soldier (Josiah X).


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Main/1st Story Full Credits

Eder Messias
Eder Messias
Fer Sifuentes-Sujo
Taurin Clarke (Cover Penciler)
Taurin Clarke (Cover Inker)
Taurin Clarke (Cover Colorist)
Additional Credits
Letterer: Joe Caramagna.
Editor: Alanna Smith.



Review / Commentaries


Sam Wilson, Captain America (2025 series) #5 Review by (May 7, 2025)

Review: Okay, the good guys win though the chaotic art makes the details hard to follow in places. And in the nice twist presented last time, the victory is not achieved by destroying everything the villain has done but by reclaiming it for the people he had wronged. The sky farms became what Dennis Harmon had falsely claimed they were: a chance for the down and out to achieve independence and new lives. Care over punishment, as was said in issue #4. There’s the real value of this overcrowded and chaotic epic. A different goal for the heroes.

Too bad it required Red Hulk to grow wings. That was a bit silly.

PS Putting Storm and War Machine on the cover for a single page cameo is quite misleading though Marvel has been doing it for years. And they omitted Black Panther who is in the comic under the identical circumstances.

Comments: Closing note: The adventures of Sam Wilson, Captain America, continue in AVENGERS [2023] #26. Greg Pak and Evan Narcisse are the credited writers. 






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