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kingrockwell ([info]kingrockwell) wrote in [info]scans_daily,
@ 2009-06-10 16:10:00

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Current music:Black Rebel Motorcycle Gang ~ "Head Up High"
Entry tags:char: captain america/steve rogers, char: daredevil/matt murdock, creator: david mazzucchelli, creator: frank miller, creator: john cassaday, creator: john ney rieber, publisher: marvel comics, series: one perfect moment week, title: captain america, title: daredevil

More Perfect Moments with Cap!
Because I always seem to skip over the "One" part.

From Daredevil v1 #233, by Frank Miller and David Mazzuchelli.
A modern super-soldier has made a warzone of Hell's Kitchen. Daredevil took him down before the Avengers came in to take over, so Matt takes care of Karen, who was caught in the crossfire. At the church-turned-hospital-ward, Matt realizes he's being followed.




DD being blind isn't really common knowledge at this point. Those that know he's Matt Murdock figure being blind's an act, so he ends up coming off as a huge dick here. And the eighties are getting to Cap. :(
He goes on to break into a military institution to get to the bottom of this.


From Captain America v4 #1, by John Ney Rieber and John Cassaday.
It's September 12, 2001. Cap is exactly where you'd expect him, working Ground Zero.


There aren't words to explain how big a hit this would've been to Steve. As he tells Nick Fury when he comes in and tries to ship him out to Kandahar, there is nowhere else more right for him to be then helping the rescue effort.
The issue only gets better and more human from here. Shit, the whole arc, collected in Captain America: The New Deal is amazing, I couldn't recommend it enough. I've got a few more moments from it here...


#3 has this moment, after Cap has killed a terrorist in charge of an attack on a small Midwest town.




Which carries over a bit into the next issue...

Steve knows what he represents, and he knows the trouble he could bring in such a sensitive sociopolitical climate by doing what he did. He would rather expose himself to that danger than for innocent people to suffer for his actions.


#4 is another "Cap storming a military base" story. I'm kind of a sucker for them because they show exactly where his loyalties are, that he's not some glorified jingoistic thug like Ultimate Cap. I'm not posting those scans, though (and i regret at least not line about how nothing would survive a full nuclear assault but rats and cockroaches...and Cap!) Instead you get this...


What the guy's saying here isn't necessarily true, but that's not the important part. The important part is that Steve does inspire those feelings in people, that if they cared enough the world could be a better place. He carries the hopes and dreams of the world (yes, he wears an A on his helmet, but that's only because Captain Planet was taken and Captain Earth or World sound ridiculous) on his shoulders. He understands the responsibility there and has always worked to do right by The Dream.

The current Marvel Universe is a place where that dream has died and there is no place for hope. If Dark Reign and OMD are really about a world at its bleakest because Steve Rogers, its very heart, has been cut out, I will take back (almost) every negative thing I ever said about Joe Q, but I really don't have that kind of faith in him.

now i need to put together a Frank Einstein post


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[info]oddpuppets
2009-06-10 04:26 pm UTC (link)
This.


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[info]hybrid2
2009-06-10 04:32 pm UTC (link)
same

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[info]citygod
2009-06-10 04:42 pm UTC (link)
That issue of Daredevil has one of my favourite FM passages: the Avengers show up and Captain America takes charge. We see Thor in silhouette starting a thunderstorm and the line reads something like "A voice that can command a God, does." Now, that's One Perfect Moment.

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[info]kingrockwell
2009-06-10 05:40 pm UTC (link)
There's just too much good Cap in that issue. It was one of the books that made me sit up and start taking notice of the guy.

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[info]citygod
2009-06-10 06:26 pm UTC (link)
Miller has always written him well. There's a story from very early in FM's career (Marvel Presents? Glossy, non-code??) that's just terrific. Let's hope he never decides to do The God-damn Cap.

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[info]majingojira
2009-06-10 04:46 pm UTC (link)
I'm continually amazed at how well Steve can be written.

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[info]sherkahn
2009-06-10 04:48 pm UTC (link)
Both Nick and Cap must've been hit really hard with the 911 images. Cap, of course, more than others, because of who he is, but Nick was there, too.

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[info]kingrockwell
2009-06-10 05:39 pm UTC (link)
Something I'd missed in the narration, that scene takes place on September 12th. Cap saying he slept yesterday means he slept before the planes hit. If it had been tomorrow, he would've said he slept two days ago. That line has always given me chills because of what it says about him, that there's no time to rest while there's work to do.

With most of the MU centered in NYC, all of them would've been hit pretty hard by it. Though Fury's may have reacted to it differently from Cap in this book, he at least understands the guy well enough to not be sore when Cap forcefully rejects the mission he tries to send him on.

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Bravo!
[info]proteus_lives
2009-06-10 05:37 pm UTC (link)
I love the DD one and the last one is 1000% Cap-Truth!

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Pencillers
(Anonymous)
2009-06-10 05:39 pm UTC (link)
Can someone in the know list off the pencillers for these scans? They are all beautifully drawn.

Thanks,

Chris

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Re: Pencillers
[info]kingrockwell
2009-06-10 05:42 pm UTC (link)
I had in the post, but David Mazzucchelli did the Daredevil pages at top, and John Cassaday is the artist on the Cap v4 scans.

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[info]adon_ca
2009-06-10 06:03 pm UTC (link)
There's a lyric from a Crash-Test Dummies song that is written, perhaps ironically, perhaps not, about Superman. In this case, though, the line applies to Cap just as well as it does to Supes.

"Superman never made any money
saving the world from Solomon Grundy.
And sometimes I despair the world will never see another man
like him."

*wipes away a tear*

Miss you Steve. Please, come back soon.

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[info]mullon
2009-06-10 06:05 pm UTC (link)
That was nice, but I'm still waiting for someone to post the scene where he stands up to Thanos.

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[info]masterofmidgets
2009-06-10 06:34 pm UTC (link)
I don't know if Steve's my favorite superhero, but I don't have any doubt that out of all the heroes I love, he's the best. And he's not preachy or smug or self-righteous - he's just good. The kind of hero who makes the world better just by existing, and every time you see him, you want to be a better person.

All of these scans are gorgeous and amazing, and the 9/11 one just broke my heart.

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[info]mechanicaljewel
2009-06-10 07:07 pm UTC (link)
Motto. Scenes like these are why I'll always love and respect Steve more than Superman. Because as much as Superman is associated with "truth, justice, and the American Way," it's Cap that really lives by those ideals and fights for them. Superman, to me, has always been basically a good guy who was raised right, and therefore his heroics were a logical extension of his having superpowers to begin with. Steve, on the other hand, started his life as a sickly weakling, but was just so driven, and refused to take no for an answer, that he was able to achieve the necessary abilities to embark on his heroics. Therefore, he appreciates what he's fighting for more than Clark.

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[info]peahaich
2009-06-10 07:05 pm UTC (link)
I recall Paul O'Brien really, really hating that Rieber/Cassaday storyline, largely due to its boneheaded portrayal of terrorism and alleged jingoism. The X-Axis website appears to be down at the moment, but the review of the second and sixth issues have been archived:

http://web.archive.org/web/20080209143253/http://www.thexaxis.com/reviews/120502.html#captain-america
http://web.archive.org/web/20080201084226/www.thexaxis.com/misc/captainamerica6.htm

Personally, I haven't read the storyline, and I can't judge it merely from these pages, apart from that the art is excellent. But if these reviews are accurate, it doesn't sound like the kind of thing I'd recommend to anyone.

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[info]mechanicaljewel
2009-06-10 07:16 pm UTC (link)
Hmm. Well, I haven't read the arc either, but while I think O'Brien has some valid points, I think a few more of them are also quite debatable (e.g. his claim that taking people hostage and making demands isn't "terrorism"). It doesn't sound like a great story arc either way, but I do think he's stretching for things to complain about.

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[info]kingrockwell
2009-06-10 10:28 pm UTC (link)
The plot itself isn't really anything special, and the villain is admittedly generic, but it's more a good arc for all the perfect Cap moments.
The writer is, interestingly enough, English.

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[info]noahbrand
2009-06-22 04:03 pm UTC (link)
You should also be aware that the SAME ISSUES caused right-wing blowhard Michael Medved to claim that they presented Cap as a terrorist-sympathizing traitor.

Some folks will just NEVER get morally nuanced stories, I'm afraid.

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[info]lieut_kettch
2009-06-10 11:10 pm UTC (link)
Cap at Ground Zero was heart-wrenching. Although I prefer the Ex Machina version of 9-11. It's conceivable that the first Tower might've gone down due to the element of surprise, but in a NYC full of Capes, there's no way the 2nd attack would've succeeded.

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[info]blackdocs
2009-06-11 01:19 am UTC (link)
Purdy Cassaday art!!! aw, i need this volume ASAP (big Cassaday whore)! I only ever had one issue from this run. Bought it in the first batch of random stuff that got me back into reading comics back in '02 ^_^

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[info]joysweeper
2009-06-13 10:37 am UTC (link)
Oh, I like perfect Cap moments.

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