Captain America - Sam Wilson : Les bons anges

by Evan Narcisse (Contributor), Greg Pak (Contributor), Eder Messias (Drawings)

Sam Wilson wields the shield once more as the high-flying Captain America!

When Captain America attends a birthday party for Isaiah Bradley, he catches wind of a new tech venture that sounds too good to be true: magnificent floating platforms in the sky, where the disenfranchised can apply for land grants and establish their own farms. But after Sam discovers the organization’s dark underbelly, he’ll have to tangle with its head of security: the Red Hulk! But another player is about to enter the fray: Josiah X! He’s got a new mission and a new look, but is he there to help Sam or pursue his own agenda? Captain America, his partner Falcon and the unpredictable Josiah X will find themselves at the mercy of the sinister forces running Eaglestar. Their escape may depend on the Red Hulk, but where do his loyalties lie?

COLLECTING: Sam Wilson, Captain America (2025) 1-5

Genres: Graphic Novels, Comics, Superheroes

Hardcover

Published October 8, 2025

Reviews

[Paul · Rating 2 out of 5]

2.2 stars

[Chris Lemmerman · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a Captain America book featuring Sam Wilson and the Red Hulk, so there's some synergy going on, but it's not a straight tie-in to Brave New World at all. Instead, we get a story about Sam getting roped into a mind control scheme by the most racist man on the planet, and the other Red Hulk, General Maverick, getting pulled in for the fun. Also featuring Josiah X, Eli Bradley, and a host of other fun characters, Better Angels is decent enough, but feels like it's missing something.

It never really gets overly preachy, but it does feel a little like it's bonking you on the head with a moral, which isn't something Greg Pak's other books that focus on non-white heroes ever felt like they were doing. The action's fun, I'm glad we're all still remembering Joaquin Torres is an actual falcon/man hybrid at the moment, and the ending's satisfying enough, but yeah, something didn't entirely hit for me.

The art's okay - Eder Messias handles four of the five issues, with some fill-in work from Chris Campanas (who's come a long way since I saw his work last on Red Goblin) and Valentine De Landro has a few flashback pages here and there. The Taurin Clarke covers are the real highlight on the art front.

Eh, I've read worse comics released around a movie. Bridges the gap between longer Cap runs, at least.

[Adam Fisher · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not sure how much of this is canon to the main storyline, but overall is a decent story. Sam gets involved with a new project started by a tech billionaire: Skydream, a series of floating platforms for humanity to live on when the surface world inevitably fails. Dennis Harmon, the rich man in charge of all this, has chosen to fill the platforms with poor and inner city African-Americans, so he can have power over them. Add on to that his Chief of Security is Red Hulk!
By the end, Skydream comes out of the sky, but some of the people do their best to try to make the better parts of the dream stay alive. Overall, an alright read, but some might get more out of it than I did.

[bryce · Rating 3 out of 5]

Great fan of Greg Pak and Sam Wilson so felt like this was the perfect combo for me. I felt the story was great but let down a tad by the art being muddied in places, too much was going on. It felt very late 2000's computer art comic design and not in a good way. The story was great and felt on topic - but very much almost felt at war with Brave New World.


Read as single issues.

[Chad · Rating 1 out of 5]

So this was terrible. I'm guessing it was supposed to capitalize off of Captain America: Brave New World as it has Sam Wilson and a Red Hulk in it. The story is just ridiculous. It hits you over the head with its preaching against racism. It's about giving black and brown people a literal 40 acres and a mule but on a floating platform in the sky. Then they are being mind-controlled to be slaves when they get up there. The last issue had flying sharks in it for some reason.

There are 3 different artists on a a 5 issue miniseries and none of them are all that great. That's a problem. Marvel comics seem to be really flailing at the moment.

[Atomread W. Megaforce · Rating 4 out of 5]

I just want to know where the flying sharks came from.

[Jack Morelli · Rating 3 out of 5]

Someday, someone will write the definitive Sam Wilson Captain America story. I know it.

(Nick Spencer got close but I don’t think quite made it)