Agents
of the Red Skull and an operative known only as Agent X are dispatched to
apprehend or kill any and all scientists who had anything to do with the Super
Solider project. But when Cap’s CO, who happens to know some key ingredients to
the formula that created Captain America is kidnapped, Steve Rogers is ordered
to stand down.
Not
willing to let a good man die, Rogers, Bucky, and a Peggy Carter archetype that’s
caught Steve’s eye commandeer a cargo plane. Their destination will send them
deep into Nazi occupied France and unless they can connect with the French
Resistance, all is lost and Hitler will have all the needed information to
create his own Super Soldier.
This
is classic Captain America. Steve Rogers is willing to take orders. But when he
feels that those orders are wrong and violates the American way of life that he’s
sworn to symbolize, he won’t pussy foot around. Cap’s going to do what’s right
and later, he’ll accept a court material because he did disobey orders and that
action was still wrong.
That’s
what I love about Captain America. 70 years later and he is still this symbol
of freedom, or democracy, and of our nation. True, he has lost his faith in
government and his leaders from time to time- but all Americans have from time
to time. Yet no matter what happens, Steve Rogers still believes in the Red,
White, and Blue and has patriotic pride.
Cap
is my #1 super hero of all time with Superman a close 2nd. Often I
waiver back and forth over who I like better. I look a little like Clark Kent
with a curly cue mop top and slightly horned rim glasses. I’ve cosplayed as
Superman and Superboy a number of times. I’ve 4x as much Superman stuff as I
have Captain America items- including the number of books I have read and
collected of each. But the way Superman
has evolved over the years has gone from symbol of Truth, Justice, and the
American way to a demi-god to a god to an alien citizen of not just the US but
the world. Captain America has remained static. He’s an average Joe who wanted
to serve his nation. That sacrifice resulted in his suspended animation and now
he’s trying to live to the 1940s standard of American morals while living in a
modern day waste land.
This
third chapter of the Captain America origin reboot is perfect in every way. It’s
written in a style that all of the great Captain America writes have emulated
in the past and it stand up to the man as he’s presented today. Issue #3 is
proof why Captain America is good for America and my favorite super hero.
Worth
Consuming.
Rating:
10 out of 10 stars.
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