artist: Carlos Pacheco
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This leaves Steve Rogers as a shriveled old man, kind of what he'd be if he'd aged naturally from his original WWII existence. Instead someone finally magically stripped him of whatever happened to have allowed him to originally escape such a fate. And that's something DC fans saw twenty years ago in the pages of Zero Hour.
Anyway, so as part of the Marvel Even-More-Now initiative, as you might have read, the big three Avengers (Cap, Iron Man, Thor) will be going through a simultaneous identity crisis. I'm not really clear on Iron Man's, but as far as Thor goes, apparently you can become the Norse god of thunder just because you can possess his power by lifting his hammer (I don't know, it sounded less stupid in my head explaining it that way, but anyway, they really stretched temporarily replacing him, one way or another).
I like Rick Remender's idea for Cap best. I wish someone really would address his steroids more directly, but this is pretty good. Sure, he'll get his steroids back (keep saying it and maybe it'll sink in), Falcon will go back to being Falcon, after being Cap for a while, but in the meantime there's an interesting wrinkle.
This is another instance of Remender writing Steve Rogers and/or Captain America more directly and relevantly than Ed Brubaker ever managed. (The Winter Soldier thing was a great idea, but it's also a great gimmick, as in...gimmick.)
Having once randomly caught an issue and finding much to my surprise that I liked it, I was glad to give Remender's run a more deliberate look, and this was a good issue to sample.
Having once randomly caught an issue and finding much to my surprise that I liked it, I was glad to give Remender's run a more deliberate look, and this was a good issue to sample.
I didn't know about Rodgers losing his super serum. Makes sense to give someone other than Bucky a go at the sheild.
ReplyDeleteMuch a lot more sense for someone other than Bucky to be Cap, actually.
DeleteThe whole Thor thing does go back to the original issues where some dude in Norway found the hammer and became "Thor" so from that point of view it makes sense.
ReplyDeleteI read one of those CBR posts on abandoned plotlines and I guess once Steve Rogers decided that his super soldier serum was a "drug" and that he should Just Say No to it so for a little while he was just an ordinary dude with big muscles from working out a lot. I guess you can't expect complete originality after like 75 years.
The same thing happened to Bane, too!
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