Captain America: The Winter Soldier make it so profitable, is its emotional bandwidth—all the vivid, nuanced life lived by its characters in between their frenzied escapades," and felt it fixed all the shortcomings of "The First Avenger" "and then some". Conversely, Kenneth Turan of the "Los Angeles Times" said, "["Captain America: The Winter Soldier"] is everything a big budget superhero film should be – except inspired." Manohla Dargis of "The New York Times" said, "Like many others of its type, ["Captain America: The Winter Soldier"] gets off to a kinetic start only to lose steam before blowing everything up." Robbie Collin of "The Daily Telegraph"
Captain America and the Falcon almost immediately, problems Priest would later admit were created by both himself and Bart Sears: The death blow for "Captain America and the Falcon" came when Captain America's solo series was once again relaunched in 2005. This new solo series featured stories once again set in the Marvel Universe. With sales dropping and the series very reason for existing now gone, Marvel canceled "Captain America and the Falcon" with issue #14. The fourteen issues of "Captain America and the Falcon" were broken up into various storyarcs. The first storyarc, titled "Two Americas" was contained within the first four issues. The