3 out of 5

While this issue is, overall, better curated and sequenced than the Batman one, for some reason, I found it less compelling.  It starts with the cover, which has a similar blue / red on white background layout but is less dynamic than Bats and Supes wrestling – it just sort of looks like Mondo’s movie prints, which are professional but don’t really grab me – and continues to the contents, which don’t – save a couple of exceptions – go anywhere unexpected.  They’re well-written, and very complete, and sensibly chosen; but perhaps there was the curiosity in the BvS edition of what the BMD staff would have to say, since there was already a lot of early negativity brewing toward that film, and that curiosity doesn’t exist with Cap 3, so the articles end up reading like the supportive pieces we’d expect.

There’s definitely some great stuff in here, from the Cap movie / TV history to the Russo brothers interview – which makes them sound so much more grounded and intelligent than Snyder – and especially Andrew Todd’s fascinating summary of what Cap represents to a foreign audience, but overall, it’s white bread.  The Bats issue I kept bouncing around between articles because they all seemed like points of interest; Civil War I kept flipping through, but always came back to just reading it in order.

Maybe we’ll chalk it up to Marvel marketing overkill, or that the whole movie versus movie thing played me out by the time I got the issue.  You should still be reading BMD, and if you were infinitely more excited for the film than I was, this issue will probably net more stars during your review.