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When Stevie Was Dead: Part IV: The Two Caps
Part IV of V in our series recounting "The Death of Captain America": Bucky's first steps as Captain America continue, the Red Skull's plot advances, and...the return of Steve?!
Picking up from last issue, Bucky and Natasha beat up the bad guys. Tony meets with the Secretary of (something or other) in Washington, telling them that Kronas Corp. is actually being run by the Red Skull. The Secretary doesn't believe it. Tony asks how much cash Kronas has been donating to Bush and co.
As you can imagine, SHIELD agents gunning down scores of protesters outside the White House does not go over well.
Next issue, Falcon is on the trail of Dr. Faustus, and finds and old site he recently had evacuated; he apprises Tony of this.
That's...not really something a senator has the power to do, but that never stopped Kelly, I suppose.
Faustus works some more of his magic and whips up all the protesters in DC into a rioting mob, while at the same time the Skull sends agents to try and "assassinate" Wright.
Bucky finds himself confronting Sin and the Serpent Squad.
Elsewhere in this issue, somebody finally notices that Sharon is with child.
I'd get a new OB-GYN, Sharon, if I was you; there's something untrustworthy about that one.
Bucky fights his way through Sin and the Serpents, and then finds himself face to face with Crossbones. They brawl.
That sequence there is another stunt I'd like to see replicated in the movie.
Crossbones is captured, but Sin and the Serpents (the former being beaten up badly) get away. They tell the Skull there's a new Cap; the Skull laughs his ass off, realizing who it is.
Cheer up, Bucky; public speaking takes time to master.
Later, Natasha updates Bucky on the status quo, including that SHIELD's operations in the US are still under a microscope, so she won't be able to help out for the near future. She asks whether he remembers everything about their past relationship.
Hey, a smile! Somebody smiled in Captain America!
Incidentally, that's Mike Perkins' final pencilled page in the series to date; he came on as a second artist early on to help Steve Epting, and stayed through #36, before leaving to draw the various The Stand minis.
Back at Evil HQ, Sharon is still free to move around, since she's still under the bad guys' mind control. However, with Steve/Sharon Jr. exposed, she snaps out of it and decides to break out.
Cliffhanger!
Next issue, we once again check in with that female newscaster who's always on TV in this series:
Wright '08: Fascism You Can Believe In.
Bucky, now living in Steve's old place, finds his workout interrupted.
Clint leaves on an ambiguous note.
Late that night...
He's there to suggest a team-up! New Cap and Falcon head off to try and find Sharon.
Sharon herself waits until the next night, when "Steve" should be awake, and breaks in.
What's going on here? Who is this guy?
Why don't you tell us, Sharon!
Brubaker has said on several occasions that the first two comics he bought with his own money were an issue of Iron Fist and a Steve Englehart Captain America comic featuring 50s Cap as a villain; and so he went on to revive the Iron Fist property and bring back 50s Cap from his extremely underwhelming demise (Mark Waid have already brought back Sharon, who "died" in the same incident", a decade or so earlier; in one of Brubaker's early interviews back in 2004 when he was starting on the title he said that he was so glad Waid had done this, or he'd have had to devote an arc to it himself).
New Cap and Falcon have a run-in with Zola this issue, which ends inconclusively.
Of course, it was Lukin/Skull who had Winter Soldier-Bucky kill Jack back in issue, er, four or five, I believe -- but I'm guessing they're not going to tell him that part. Moments like this show how interlinked the events of this series are. Nothing is ever wasted.
Next time, the grand finale: Villains Divided, Heroes United
As you can imagine, SHIELD agents gunning down scores of protesters outside the White House does not go over well.
Next issue, Falcon is on the trail of Dr. Faustus, and finds and old site he recently had evacuated; he apprises Tony of this.
That's...not really something a senator has the power to do, but that never stopped Kelly, I suppose.
Faustus works some more of his magic and whips up all the protesters in DC into a rioting mob, while at the same time the Skull sends agents to try and "assassinate" Wright.
Bucky finds himself confronting Sin and the Serpent Squad.
Elsewhere in this issue, somebody finally notices that Sharon is with child.
I'd get a new OB-GYN, Sharon, if I was you; there's something untrustworthy about that one.
Bucky fights his way through Sin and the Serpents, and then finds himself face to face with Crossbones. They brawl.
That sequence there is another stunt I'd like to see replicated in the movie.
Crossbones is captured, but Sin and the Serpents (the former being beaten up badly) get away. They tell the Skull there's a new Cap; the Skull laughs his ass off, realizing who it is.
Cheer up, Bucky; public speaking takes time to master.
Later, Natasha updates Bucky on the status quo, including that SHIELD's operations in the US are still under a microscope, so she won't be able to help out for the near future. She asks whether he remembers everything about their past relationship.
Hey, a smile! Somebody smiled in Captain America!
Incidentally, that's Mike Perkins' final pencilled page in the series to date; he came on as a second artist early on to help Steve Epting, and stayed through #36, before leaving to draw the various The Stand minis.
Back at Evil HQ, Sharon is still free to move around, since she's still under the bad guys' mind control. However, with Steve/Sharon Jr. exposed, she snaps out of it and decides to break out.
Cliffhanger!
Next issue, we once again check in with that female newscaster who's always on TV in this series:
Wright '08: Fascism You Can Believe In.
Bucky, now living in Steve's old place, finds his workout interrupted.
Clint leaves on an ambiguous note.
Late that night...
He's there to suggest a team-up! New Cap and Falcon head off to try and find Sharon.
Sharon herself waits until the next night, when "Steve" should be awake, and breaks in.
What's going on here? Who is this guy?
Why don't you tell us, Sharon!
Brubaker has said on several occasions that the first two comics he bought with his own money were an issue of Iron Fist and a Steve Englehart Captain America comic featuring 50s Cap as a villain; and so he went on to revive the Iron Fist property and bring back 50s Cap from his extremely underwhelming demise (Mark Waid have already brought back Sharon, who "died" in the same incident", a decade or so earlier; in one of Brubaker's early interviews back in 2004 when he was starting on the title he said that he was so glad Waid had done this, or he'd have had to devote an arc to it himself).
New Cap and Falcon have a run-in with Zola this issue, which ends inconclusively.
Of course, it was Lukin/Skull who had Winter Soldier-Bucky kill Jack back in issue, er, four or five, I believe -- but I'm guessing they're not going to tell him that part. Moments like this show how interlinked the events of this series are. Nothing is ever wasted.
Next time, the grand finale: Villains Divided, Heroes United
Scans from Captain America #34-38.