Chip Zdarsky Writing, "Captain America," Sounds Promising

Chip Zdarsky is a skilled writer who, "Hits," a lot more often than he, "Misses." He had some recent runs on, "Daredevil," that drew a ton of admiration and is wrapping up a generally-liked take on, "Batman." He's done art on comics such as, "Sex Criminals," with Matt Fraction (I liked the art, but oddly was cold on the actual story) and written such bangers as, "Avengers: Twilight," and, "Spider-Man: Life Story," pretty recently. He's got plenty of great indie books too such as,  "Stillwater," "Public Domain," and my point is he does a lot of comics and many of them are great. Now, he's going to be taking on Captian America. In that, he will be writing the series, not fighting Steve Rogers. That would be awkward to witness.

First off, yes, Chip is a Canadian and generally, only Americans have written Cap in his own book. Plenty of folks from different nations have used Captain America in comics, however, so it isn't a huge deal, but it is kind of a fun little tidbit. There is a run of, "Captain America," finishing in a bit with J. Michael Straczynski plotting and it started pretty well before getting a bit too fantastical and otherworldly for my tastes. Still, at least Straczynski is seeing a comic through to its end as he often has a tendency to start a series strong and then go in weird directions/trail off, or outright quit a book to go do something else. Having Chip writing Captain America sounds promising and I didn't even mention yet how the artist will be Valerio Schiti! Schiti's work is always fantastic and I can't wait to see what this upcoming run of, "Captain America," will be like with such a stellar creative team. I look forward to the book's launch this July!