Review by Ian Keogh

In 2022 Captain America was rebooted for the umpteenth time, the novelty being that two series resulted. Sentinel of Liberty has the writing partnership of Collin Kelly and Jackson Lanzing dealing with Steve Rogers as Captain America, but under Tochi Onyebuchi Symbol of Truth stars Sam Wilson as the patriotic crimefighter.

They spin out of a battle with Arnim Zola in New York jointly written by all three writers and drawn with some style by Mattia de Iulis. It opens the first volumes of both series and sets exceptionally high artistic standards. However, R.B. Silva is no second rate substitute. He works in pen and ink rather than digitally, but knows his way around an action page, and isn’t an artist who spares the detail.

Sam’s preoccupation is a rumour that someone’s attempting to duplicate the super soldier serum that created the first Captain America, and that someone is also smuggling vibranium from Wakanda, the only country where it naturally exists. White supremacists are involved. Onyebuchi supplies readers with information not known to Sam, showing Cap’s brutal enemy Crossbones recruited by a new organisation with considerable resources intending to overthrow a government. From a start of Sam and Misty Knight enjoying the sunshine, Onyebuchi builds toward what could become a global crisis, and that’s certainly what some parties want.

Homeland is good Captain America, with Sam and his allies following a trail that maintains the superhero feel via prominent guest stars, while also touching on some real world issues without hammering the points home. For starters the very different internal politics of Latveria and Wakanda impact on events, forcing Sam to consider workarounds, and the use of Joaquín Torres as the Falcon opens other social issues.

In the short term at least almost everything has been resolved, but the master plotter remains at large, and that’s what leads into Pax Mohannda.