SuperPatriot: America's Fighting Force

SuperPatriot #3

by Robert Kirkman, Cory Walker (Artist)

Before they created Invincible together, Robert Kirkman and Cory Walker collaborated on this epic mini-series featuring Erik Larsen's Superpatriot. Watch the aging superhero deal with some of his deadliest foes yet in this action-packed mini-series! Collects Superpatriot: America's Fighting Force #1-4.

Genres: Comics, Graphic Novels, Comic Book, Science Fiction, Action

136 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2006

About the author

Robert Kirkman is an American comic book writer best known for his work on The Walking Dead, Invincible for Image Comics, as well as Ultimate X-Men and Marvel Zombies for Marvel Comics. He has also collaborated with Image Comics co-founder Todd McFarlane on the series Haunt. He is one of the five partners of Image Comics, and the only one of the five who was not one of the original co-founders of that publisher.

Robert Kirkman's first comic books were self-published under his own Funk-o-Tron label. Along with childhood friend Tony Moore, Kirkman created Battle Pope which was published in late 2001. Battle Pope ran for over 2 years along with other Funk-o-Tron published books such as InkPunks and Double Take.

In July of 2002, Robert's first work for another company began, with a 4-part SuperPatriot series for Image, along with Battle Pope backup story artist Cory Walker. Robert's creator-owned projects followed shortly thereafter, including Tech Jacket, Invincible and Walking Dead.

Reviews

[Chad · Rating 3 out of 5]

Before they created Invincible, Kirkman and Walker teamed up on SuperPatriot. This is your standard goofy Savage Dragon type book. It's mindless fun but nothing special.

[Michael · Rating 3 out of 5]

Got this as a spin-off to invincible as he appears in that, basically an excuse to get another comic. This was good, had fun reading this. It gave you a a taste of the character without overstaying its welcome and dripped in parts of his past too.

[Shaun Stanley · Rating 3 out of 5]

SuperPatriot Vol. 1 America's Fighting Force collects issues 1-4 by Robert Kirkman and art by Cory Walker.

SuperPatriot is attempting to settle down and leads normal civilian life while still aiding his superhero kids when some villains from his past return.

I really don't know much about the character of SuperPatriot other than he was a part of Erik Larson's Savage Dragon universe. I get a mix of Captain America and Hellboy (the villains) vibes from the story but with a lot more humor and some 90s style over-the-top action (big guns, guns with multiple barrels, guns attached to cybernetic body parts). It appears SuperPatriot's wife may have a small role in the Invincible universe with SuperPatriot making the occasional appearance.

[Will Cooper · Rating 3 out of 5]

Fine story about Superpatriot fighting nazis and living a life.

[Sie Kensou · Rating 3 out of 5]

Entretenido tomo en formato de parodia de super heroes que leí, porque según el orden de lectura hace parte del universo de Invincible, aunque no se la encontré. Aún así es entretenido, sin más, con un dibujo correcto, igual sin más.

[Warren · Rating 2 out of 5]

Another take on the older hero - this is an aged Captain America-esque super soldier, with cybernetics in his old age. Innocuous but pure fluff.

[kami · Rating 2 out of 5]

if captain america had a bat family, banged barely legal girls, and fought with hitlers brain which happened to be transferred into the body of a gorilla. wtf did i just read bruh

[Alana · Rating 3 out of 5]

Meh

[Bruce M · Rating 3 out of 5]

Local Comic Book Store had a $1 trade paperback sale. As I flipped through every title on the table I notice a title by The Walking Dead creator, Robert Kirkman.



I enjoyed it well enough. SuperPatriot, created by Erik Larsen, is friend and colleague to Larsen's other notable character creation, Savage Dragon. SuperPatriot seems to be a tongue-in-cheek amalgam of the Marvel characters Captain America and Dethlok. Today he cleans the streets and fights an army of robotic Nazis.

This title works fairly well as an introduction to the character and his backstory. It has some humourous moments, and outright hilarious character concepts... but Kirkman's story itself is relatively uninspired.

Cory Walkers art ends up being much more satisfying than Kirkman's writing. The art is gorgeous, though. It's very clean and bright. The colours pop off the page in the modern segments, and the sepia flashbacks somehow manage to look aged, but clean as well.

If you find this title on sale somewhere, or if they're offering it cheap on comixology, it's worth a discounted price, to be certain. All in all, I've certainly purchased worse books, and I'd be disappointed if I had to pay full cover price for this one. But I'd buy that for a dollar.

[Anchorpete · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book is a good example of a telling a story in four issues, that you could easily tell in two. Bendis does this quiet often in his books. Kirkman does it in Walking dead quite often, not so much in Invincible. With Bendis, it gets a pass, because his dialogue is usually gets a laugh. There really isnt any funny dialogue in this book whatsoever. Walking Dead gets a pass, because so much story is told in silent panels, and you need more silent panels to convey a story than you would with panels that have dialogue or narration.
This book is just a stretched out story, with really no arc for the character whatsoever. It seems like he is trying to overcome something, or get his life in order, but really nothing happens to him, except he stops a robot gorilla with Hitler's brain, in the end.

[Alex Sarll]

Harmless if underwhelming pre-Invincible superhero outing from the team who subsequently created that book. Walker is far too harsh on his own art in the notes at the back, and Kirkman manages a few great comedy and character moments, but ultimately they're hampered by their material: there have been precious few good comics starring the original Captain America, so his ponytailed cyborg knock-off was always likely to represent a tough gig.

[Joe · Rating 2 out of 5]

Meh. Some funny moments, but nothing all that worth reading.

[Ryan Haupt]

For a guy who claims to not like writing short mini-series, Kirkman still seems pretty good at it.