Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale will be doing another "color" book for Marvel entitled, Captain America: White. I haven't tried Daredevil: Yellow or Hulk: Gray, but I do have the hardcover of Spider-Man: Blue. It's a nice look back at the time where Peter/Spider-Man was dealing with both Gwen and Mary Jane in his life. The current direction of the Amazing Spider-Man stories left me feeling as though we lost Mary Jane just as past readers lost Gwen (okay, MJ didn't die, but the book is close to over for me now), so Blue is a chance to see them both again if you haven't read it.
The Loeb/Sale team shines in these slice of the past tales along with their projects together on DC's Batman (Haunted Knight, The Long Halloween and Dark Victory) and Superman (For All Seasons). Captain America is different than any of the other solo characters the two have worked on as he's not a vigilante hero in the vein of Bats, Spider-Man or DD and obviously not in the Hulk's monster style. There are some parallels between Cap and Superman since both are the inspirational hero of their two universes, but the war background separates Steve Rogers from Clark Kent. Plus, Tim Sale's art is unlike anyone else's and Jeph Loeb gives him plenty to draw, so the visuals always make the pairing something to be excited about. I plan on picking this up in trade or hardcover, because their stories are worth rereading.
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