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Captain America: Marvel Knights
Captain America, Vol. 4: Cap Lives
Cap wakes up to a nightmare made manifest! It's 1964 and the Nazis rule the world. This time, Nazis find Captain America in the ice and bring him directly before the Fuhrer, Red Skull!
Collecting: Captain America 16-20
Collecting: Captain America 16-20
112 pages, Paperback
First published January 28, 2004
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Dave Gibbons
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Dave Gibbons is an English comic book artist, writer and sometime letterer. He is best known for his collaborations with writer Alan Moore, which include the miniseries Watchmen and the Superman story "For the Man Who Has Everything". He also was an artist for the UK anthology 2000 AD, for which he contributed a large body of work from its first issue in 1977.
Gibbons broke into British comics by working on horror and action titles for both DC Thomson and IPC. When the science-fiction anthology title 2000 AD was set up in the mid-1970s, Gibbons contributed artwork to the first issue, Prog 01 (February 1977), and went on to draw the first 24 installments of Harlem Heroes, one of the founding (and pre-Judge Dredd) strips. Mid-way through the comic's first year he began illustrating Dan Dare, a cherished project for Gibbons who had been a fan of the original series. Also working on early feature Ro-Busters, Gibbons became one of the most prolific of 2000 AD's earliest creators, contributing artwork to 108 of the first 131 Progs/issues. He returned to the pages of "the Galaxy's Greatest Comic" in the early 1980s to create Rogue Trooper with writer Gerry Finley-Day and produce an acclaimed early run on that feature, before handing it over to a succession of other artists. He also illustrated a handful of Tharg's Future Shocks shorts, primarily with author Alan Moore. Gibbons departed from 2000 AD briefly in the late 1970s/early 1980s to became the lead artist on Doctor Who Weekly/Monthly, for which magazine he drew the main comic strip from issue #1 until #69, missing only four issues during that time.
He is best known in the US for collaborating with Alan Moore on the 12-issue limited series Watchmen, now one of the best-selling graphic novels of all time, and the only one to feature on Time's "Top 100 Novels" list. From the start of the 1990s, Gibbons began to focus as much on writing and inking as on drawing, contributing to a number of different titles and issues from a variety of companies. Particular highlights included, in 1990, Gibbons writing the three-issue World's Finest miniseries for artist Steve Rude and DC, while drawing Give Me Liberty for writer Frank Miller and Dark Horse Comics. He penned the first Batman Vs. Predator crossover for artists Andy and Adam Kubert (Dec 1991 - Feb 1992), and inked Rick Veitch and Stephen R. Bissette for half of Alan Moore's 1963 Image Comics series.
Works other than comics include providing the background art for the 1994 computer game Beneath a Steel Sky and the cover to K, the 1996 debut album by psychedelic rock band Kula Shaker. In 2007, he served as a consultant on the film Watchmen, which was adapted from the book, and released in March 2009. 2009's Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars Director's Cut for the Nintendo DS and Wii platforms featured hand drawn art by Dave Gibbons.
There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name
Dave Gibbons is an English comic book artist, writer and sometime letterer. He is best known for his collaborations with writer Alan Moore, which include the miniseries Watchmen and the Superman story "For the Man Who Has Everything". He also was an artist for the UK anthology 2000 AD, for which he contributed a large body of work from its first issue in 1977.
Gibbons broke into British comics by working on horror and action titles for both DC Thomson and IPC. When the science-fiction anthology title 2000 AD was set up in the mid-1970s, Gibbons contributed artwork to the first issue, Prog 01 (February 1977), and went on to draw the first 24 installments of Harlem Heroes, one of the founding (and pre-Judge Dredd) strips. Mid-way through the comic's first year he began illustrating Dan Dare, a cherished project for Gibbons who had been a fan of the original series. Also working on early feature Ro-Busters, Gibbons became one of the most prolific of 2000 AD's earliest creators, contributing artwork to 108 of the first 131 Progs/issues. He returned to the pages of "the Galaxy's Greatest Comic" in the early 1980s to create Rogue Trooper with writer Gerry Finley-Day and produce an acclaimed early run on that feature, before handing it over to a succession of other artists. He also illustrated a handful of Tharg's Future Shocks shorts, primarily with author Alan Moore. Gibbons departed from 2000 AD briefly in the late 1970s/early 1980s to became the lead artist on Doctor Who Weekly/Monthly, for which magazine he drew the main comic strip from issue #1 until #69, missing only four issues during that time.
He is best known in the US for collaborating with Alan Moore on the 12-issue limited series Watchmen, now one of the best-selling graphic novels of all time, and the only one to feature on Time's "Top 100 Novels" list. From the start of the 1990s, Gibbons began to focus as much on writing and inking as on drawing, contributing to a number of different titles and issues from a variety of companies. Particular highlights included, in 1990, Gibbons writing the three-issue World's Finest miniseries for artist Steve Rude and DC, while drawing Give Me Liberty for writer Frank Miller and Dark Horse Comics. He penned the first Batman Vs. Predator crossover for artists Andy and Adam Kubert (Dec 1991 - Feb 1992), and inked Rick Veitch and Stephen R. Bissette for half of Alan Moore's 1963 Image Comics series.
Works other than comics include providing the background art for the 1994 computer game Beneath a Steel Sky and the cover to K, the 1996 debut album by psychedelic rock band Kula Shaker. In 2007, he served as a consultant on the film Watchmen, which was adapted from the book, and released in March 2009. 2009's Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars Director's Cut for the Nintendo DS and Wii platforms featured hand drawn art by Dave Gibbons.
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May 13, 2019
This was a throw away story.
Oh, never heard of a story of where the bad guys won and now we get a new future? It's been done so many times it gets really fucking annoying. Nothing new here or interesting to really read. The dialogue for Cap is pretty terrible to be honest. The story moves quickly in some ways, and then half way it's so slow because it becomes so repetitive. The art was decent.
A 1.5 out of 5.
Oh, never heard of a story of where the bad guys won and now we get a new future? It's been done so many times it gets really fucking annoying. Nothing new here or interesting to really read. The dialogue for Cap is pretty terrible to be honest. The story moves quickly in some ways, and then half way it's so slow because it becomes so repetitive. The art was decent.
A 1.5 out of 5.
May 26, 2019
This could have been an interesting premise with better execution. As far as "What ifs" go, this is still leagues above the whole "what if Cap was a Nazi" What If so, props for that. I could have been more interested in this if we'd gotten more focus on the resistance. For once, here is a story that could have benefited a lot more from seeing the outside POV. Perhaps from Luke, or Reed, or Bucky or Don Blake's POVs where we saw more of the world where the heroes were underground fighting the Nazis. That would have kept this interesting and maybe brought back some of that rebellious hope that the best Cap comics have.
But, this just didn't really work for me, to be honest. Though, it was interesting seeing a world without Iron Man, the Hulk and Thor.
Also, the implication that the Red Skull thought Cap was interested in Bucky beyond being his teenage partner, that Cap was some sort of child abuser, was entirely unnecessary and I don't know why it was here. That was so gross.
But, this just didn't really work for me, to be honest. Though, it was interesting seeing a world without Iron Man, the Hulk and Thor.
Also, the implication that the Red Skull thought Cap was interested in Bucky beyond being his teenage partner, that Cap was some sort of child abuser, was entirely unnecessary and I don't know why it was here. That was so gross.
October 7, 2014
The Captain America version of The Man in the High Castle. Good but not great alternate history in which Captain America wakes up to a world in which Germany won WWII and the Red Skull is running New York. Pretty good writing and pretty good art but oh this has been done to death.
February 3, 2021
4.5 stars
YALL!!! RED SKULL STRAIGHT UP WAS LIKE “you can have all the women you want. Or boys.. boys in costume” when offering Steve a deal AND THEN later when he had a gun to bucky’s head he goes “Well, well. The captains little... friend, all grown up”. STEVE “EXPLICITLY IN LOVE WITH BUCKY BARNES” ROGERS WE LOVE TO SEE IT!!!
Anyway this was very entertaining. The first issue especially was so well done - showing Cap’s grief over losing bucky in the flashback (paralleling the scene too in the last issue), waking up with that grief, only to realize that it was all for nothing - the Nazis had won and taken over America. In his mind, bucky died for nothing and he wasn’t able to save him or the country. You could *feel* how devastated he was and YET he doesn’t let the devastation keep him down, and that’s the essence of what I love so fucking much about Steve Rogers.
-.5 for the weird and unsatisfying ending. Even if I did understand time travel it was just way too rushed imo
YALL!!! RED SKULL STRAIGHT UP WAS LIKE “you can have all the women you want. Or boys.. boys in costume” when offering Steve a deal AND THEN later when he had a gun to bucky’s head he goes “Well, well. The captains little... friend, all grown up”. STEVE “EXPLICITLY IN LOVE WITH BUCKY BARNES” ROGERS WE LOVE TO SEE IT!!!
Anyway this was very entertaining. The first issue especially was so well done - showing Cap’s grief over losing bucky in the flashback (paralleling the scene too in the last issue), waking up with that grief, only to realize that it was all for nothing - the Nazis had won and taken over America. In his mind, bucky died for nothing and he wasn’t able to save him or the country. You could *feel* how devastated he was and YET he doesn’t let the devastation keep him down, and that’s the essence of what I love so fucking much about Steve Rogers.
-.5 for the weird and unsatisfying ending. Even if I did understand time travel it was just way too rushed imo
August 16, 2024
Zaryzykuję stwierdzenie, że gorzej niż w ostatnim tomie względem nudy się nie dało i ktokolwiek będzie pracował nad następnym tomem, aby powtórzyć ten "poziom" będzie się musiał mocno postarać. Gibbons na szczęście poszedł w zupełnie inną stronę i chwała mu za to.
Autor też nie jest zbytnio oryginalny, bo równoległe światy i przewrotna zabawa konwencją nie zostały przez niego odkryte, aczkolwiek Ameryka lat 60. XX wieku zarządzana przez nazistów to całkiem chłonny temat, zwłaszcza jak na rok 2003. Kapitan ląduje w mocno nieprzyjaznym środowisku, gdzie na moment próbuje go przekabacić Red Skull, ale jak dobrze wiemy - pierwszy wojownik Ameryki ma już wyrobione zdanie na temat reżimów totalitarnych i bierze się za współpracę z ruchem oporu.
Opozycja do złych jest nieźle nakreślona, a widok swastyk na pancerzach pewnych robotów budzi mały zaciesz. Jest to dosyć statyczna opowieść, bo wiadomo jak się skończy, ale i tak dała mi pewną dozę satysfakcji.
Autor też nie jest zbytnio oryginalny, bo równoległe światy i przewrotna zabawa konwencją nie zostały przez niego odkryte, aczkolwiek Ameryka lat 60. XX wieku zarządzana przez nazistów to całkiem chłonny temat, zwłaszcza jak na rok 2003. Kapitan ląduje w mocno nieprzyjaznym środowisku, gdzie na moment próbuje go przekabacić Red Skull, ale jak dobrze wiemy - pierwszy wojownik Ameryki ma już wyrobione zdanie na temat reżimów totalitarnych i bierze się za współpracę z ruchem oporu.
Opozycja do złych jest nieźle nakreślona, a widok swastyk na pancerzach pewnych robotów budzi mały zaciesz. Jest to dosyć statyczna opowieść, bo wiadomo jak się skończy, ale i tak dała mi pewną dozę satysfakcji.
July 16, 2019
Collects Captain America (2002) issues #17-20
This four-issue collection features an awesome parallel universe story in which Captain America wakes up 20 years after WWII, but the Nazis have won the war, and are still ruling the world. What impact will Captain America's presence in this new reality have on the evil conquerors?
This four-issue collection features an awesome parallel universe story in which Captain America wakes up 20 years after WWII, but the Nazis have won the war, and are still ruling the world. What impact will Captain America's presence in this new reality have on the evil conquerors?
May 9, 2022
Surprisingly enjoyable alternate world.
March 2, 2017
Se volete leggere la mia recensione, cliccate qui! http://ascwblog.blogspot.it/2017/03/c...
December 25, 2013
Weird alternate timeline story. Not really my cup of tea. The writing was good and had some neat moments, but that happens to be one of my least favorite types of stories. Especially when it happens in the middle of a normal run. I'm generally okay with something like that more, when it occurs in a mini-series or something stand alone.
July 24, 2007
Borrowed from the public library.
See my note from the blog:
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See my note from the blog:
[http://gypsylibrarian.blogspot.com/20...]
September 23, 2007
RIP Cap...Marvel, I hates you! Not to worry, though -- no one stays dead in horror films or comic books.
May 13, 2008
ok. "what if" story... like what if marvel didnt waste my time with these stupid what if stories?
November 8, 2015
Individual issues on comixology
May 12, 2016
Nice Elseworld Marvel version lmao
July 21, 2016
reading in this order is sooooo amazing. it all fits together. also my love bucky barnes *cries*
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