I'd say SPOILER ALERT here, but since the ending of Captain America: Reborn has already been spoiled for months by Marvel itself, there's really no need.
Anyway, the Bryan Hitch cover for #6 is a triptych, fold out extravaganza. Three covers for the price of one. And it goes a little something like this:
Just for the record:
The Thing does not appear anywhere in this comic.
The Hulk does not appear anywhere in this comic.
Ms. Marvel does not appear anywhere in this comic.
Spider-Woman does not appear anywhere in this comic.
Wolverine does not appear anywhere in this comic.
The Black Panther does not appear anywhere in this comic.
Doctor Strange does not appear anywhere in this comic.
Cyclops does not appear anywhere in this comic.
Spider-Man does not appear anywhere in this comic.*
Quicksilver does not appear anywhere in this comic.
Iron Man doesn't appear anywhere in this comic.
Mr. Fantastic does not appear anywhere in this comic.
The Human Torch does not appear anywhere in this comic.
The Invisible Woman does not appear anywhere else in this comic.
Storm does not appear anywhere in this comic.
Thor does not appear anywhere in this comic.*
The Beast does not appear anywhere in this comic.
*(OK, parts of unconscious Thor and Spider-Man do appear in a flash-forward to a hypothetical future...but it was only one panel, and they were both unconscious or dead, so I don't count it. Sue me.)
So, despite the fact that (as per usual) Bryan Hitch was running so far behind on this series that he bailed on his much-ballyhooed Fantastic Four run before it finished to work on this series; despite the fact that Hitch was running so far behind Marvel published the next two Brubaker-written chapters of the Captain America story because they just couldn't wait any longer...despite that, Hitch DID have time to draw a triptych cover. And not just a triptych cover...a triptych cover jam-packed with heroes, 75% of whom never appear in the issue (or anywhere in the whole damned series, for most of them).
Yeah, I guess that was worth delaying things for.
PRO-TIP: Maybe if Hitch didn't insist on so many unnecessary splash pages in each issue, they wouldn't have had to extend the series from five issues to six. I'm just sayin'.
Anyway, the Bryan Hitch cover for #6 is a triptych, fold out extravaganza. Three covers for the price of one. And it goes a little something like this:
The Thing does not appear anywhere in this comic.
The Hulk does not appear anywhere in this comic.
Ms. Marvel does not appear anywhere in this comic.
Spider-Woman does not appear anywhere in this comic.
Wolverine does not appear anywhere in this comic.
The Black Panther does not appear anywhere in this comic.
Doctor Strange does not appear anywhere in this comic.
Cyclops does not appear anywhere in this comic.
Spider-Man does not appear anywhere in this comic.*
Quicksilver does not appear anywhere in this comic.
Iron Man doesn't appear anywhere in this comic.
Mr. Fantastic does not appear anywhere in this comic.
The Human Torch does not appear anywhere in this comic.
The Invisible Woman does not appear anywhere else in this comic.
Storm does not appear anywhere in this comic.
Thor does not appear anywhere in this comic.*
The Beast does not appear anywhere in this comic.
*(OK, parts of unconscious Thor and Spider-Man do appear in a flash-forward to a hypothetical future...but it was only one panel, and they were both unconscious or dead, so I don't count it. Sue me.)
So, despite the fact that (as per usual) Bryan Hitch was running so far behind on this series that he bailed on his much-ballyhooed Fantastic Four run before it finished to work on this series; despite the fact that Hitch was running so far behind Marvel published the next two Brubaker-written chapters of the Captain America story because they just couldn't wait any longer...despite that, Hitch DID have time to draw a triptych cover. And not just a triptych cover...a triptych cover jam-packed with heroes, 75% of whom never appear in the issue (or anywhere in the whole damned series, for most of them).
Yeah, I guess that was worth delaying things for.
PRO-TIP: Maybe if Hitch didn't insist on so many unnecessary splash pages in each issue, they wouldn't have had to extend the series from five issues to six. I'm just sayin'.