Yyyyeah …
Marvel Comics has announced the return of the Sentinel of Liberty in Captain America #34, due in stores in January 2008. It won’t be Steve Rogers, but it will be Captain America, and his new appearance has been designed by Alex Ross.
According to the announcement at Marvel’s website, series writer Ed Brubaker said, “This was always the plan, to have — with issue #34, halfway through the whole big ‘Death of Captain America’ epic story — [a new Cap].” The idea to involve Ross for the new Cap’s costume came from Brubaker talking to Marvel’s Tom Brevoort months ago.
So it won’t be Steve Rogers, and there’s a new costume, and …
Yeah, it’s an Alex Ross design, and it’s inspired by old movie serials (including the pistol), but it still kinda sucks.
I do think Ed Brubaker will make a good story of it, but I still feel a sense of both “ho-hum” and “boy, is that an ugly outfit.”
Captain America…has a gun?
According to the story, Alex Ross was inspired by a craptastic Captain America film se rial — in which he had a gun (since heaven knows he couldn’t do the shield thing.
I glanced through a CA issue recently and it looked like Cap was communicating from his deathbed with some US Army medic in Iraq. Looks like he’ll pass the torch somehow. So I’m half surprised he isn’t carrying an assault rifle, pack, etc.
Don’t recall seeing that, and I still read CA. What’s been interesting (and I assume this will be continuing the trend) is the shift in Cap from “brightly colored super-hero” to “soldier.” You can see that in the Ultimates side of things, and I suspect that will be the case here, too.
That’s Captain America: The Chosen, and it’s not in continuity.
Ummm…
Since when does Cap America need a gun?
Sounds like several people need a beating with a Clue by Four.
Ah, that explains it, Avo. Thanks.
And, BD? We’ll see. Maybe he got tired of waiting for Shield Melee in the Scrapper set.
*snort*
So, the player of Cap got bored with the Shield/RA Scrapper set but really liked the RP he was doing with the character and re-rolled him as a Guns/RA Scrapper.
Buu-ti-ful, man. ;P
As noted elsewhere, we had four “Superman” replacements when Supes died, and none of them lasted long before the Real Thing returned. We’ll see.
Hmmm … is Cap a Super Reflexes secondary, or the new Willpower set? Of course, presumably, if Shield ever makes it in as a melee weapon, it will have to be its own defensive power, too, unless all uses of it simply add a +Def to the wielder.
When Captain America throws his mighty shield,
All those who chose to oppose the shield must yield …
Ahhh…
So the Shield Power could be like the Katana/SRKatana build for a scrapper.
I like it. 🙂
Assuming they don’t decide to make it just a Tank primary.
But we’re probably getting to CoXy for this blog.
I love Cap, and have been a life-long reader. I would just like to point out, this is not the first time Captain America has been killed or even presumed dead.
* 1964 – presumed dead in an explosion caused by Baron Zemo near the end of World War II; later revealed to have been plunged into a state of suspended animation after falling into cold water.
* 1969 – faked his death to fool agents of HYDRA; in the following issue, Steve Rogers admits to having faked his death so he could retire peacefully, and becomes Captain America again several issues later.
* 1978 – murdered alongside his fellow Avengers by the cosmic villain Korvac, who resurrects them on the following page.
* 1984 – killed during the events of the Secret Wars alongside many other Marvel heroes. They were resurrected the following issue, where Captain America was then killed twice more by Doctor Doom but instantly resurrected both times by the Beyonder.
* 1989 – after being forced to give up the mantle of Captain America by the U.S. government, Rogers eventually reclaims the title from his replacement, John Walker. Walker, seemingly assassinated, fakes his own death in to become the new super-hero US Agent.
* 1991 – killed alongside many other heroes by the cosmic villain Thanos during the Infinity Gauntlet story arc; later, Adam Warlock manipulates reality to prevent this and other events from ever having occurred.
* 1992 – presumed assassinated by The Punisher and given a state funeral; it was later revealed his death was faked for the Punisher’s benefit.
* 1996 – Captain America’s super-soldier serum degrades and causes irreparable cellular damage over the course of several issues. At the end of one issue, Cap lies down, ready to die and the Avengers later learn his body is missing, presumably stolen. The next issue, during a broadcast of his funeral, Captain America turns up is alive and that the Red Skull had reversed the damage to his body, though not until after Captain America was clinically dead.
* 1996 – presumed killed by Onslaught alongside the Avengers and others; eventually revealed to have been transported to a “pocket universe” and returned to normal Marvel universe continuity the following year.
* 2001 – presumed killed by a bomb set off by Nazi soldiers living out their retirement in New Jersey; several months later, Captain America reappears in Marvel continuity without explanation.
* 2005 – a possible future version is killed alongside Wolverine at the hands of Thor.
* 2007 – shot several times by a sniper and by hypnotized S.H.I.E.L.D. agent Sharon Carter as he was being escorted into the Manhattan federal courthouse, days after his surrender ended the Civil War crossover story arc.
-fightgeek, out.