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colonel_green (colonel_green) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-06-13 00:33:00

Entry tags:

char: bucky/nomad/rikki barnes, char: patriot/eli bradley, creator: ed brubaker, creator: rafael albuquerque, publisher: marvel comics, title: captain america

Kids in America

The preview for Monday's much-anticipated Captain America #600.

Since disappearing from MySpace a while ago, I thought Joe Quesada's "Cup 'o Joe" interviews were done; apparently not, as he has now resurfaced on CBR with a new setup. The full preview (10 pages) is there, along with one for the upcoming Uncanny X-Men/Dark Avengers crossover and some peaks at Kyle Baker's Deadpool #900 (heh heh).

This scan, from the "The Youth of Today" segment of Cap #600, follows Rikki Barnes, the Bucky the Heroes Reborn universe (our Bucky's AU granddaughter) as she stalks Eli "Patriot" Bradley. She cracks his "secret" ID in record time (though apparently they already go to the same school).

Kate: "Back off, bitch. I will fucking cut you!"

More on topic: isn't he buried in Arlington? Of course, perhaps that's just his feeling. Brubaker always stressed that Steve's legacy was very hotly debated at his passing.

Also, does anyone else think it's not accidental that the Vice Principal looks a bit like Hitler?

Rafael Albuquerque's art looks interestingly different with this D'Armata-style colouring.

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	mcspakypants 2009-06-12 10:48 pm UTC (link)
	CAN'T WAIT FOR THIS. Even sweeter that I'll get both Ed Brubaker and Steve Epting to sign it at HeroesCon. (Reply to this)

	milleniumrex 2009-06-12 10:57 pm UTC (link)
	How is refusing to obey a registration law "treason"? God, I hate Civil War. This, though? I'm enjoying it a lot more than I should be enjoying anything starring a Civil War character and my least favorite YA member. :D (Reply to this) (Thread)

	aaron_bourque 2009-06-13 12:26 am UTC (link)
	How is refusing to obey a registration law "treason"? Because he attacked members and agents of the US government, I think. Like he's never done THAT before. And like they didn't attack HIM first. Ay yai yai. God, I hate Civil War. You and half the population. The other half either don't know it or inexplicably like it. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	hybrid2 2009-06-13 07:05 am UTC (link)
	dont forget it was'nt even a law yet,when they shoot at him. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	starwolf_oakley 2009-06-13 11:43 am UTC (link)
	Tranquillizer darts, but still... (Reply to this) (Parent)

	adon_ca 2009-06-13 04:21 am UTC (link)
	Yaknow... I've seen people comment about how the general populace of the MU didn't deserve Steve any more. It's when that principal opens his mouth that I can really understand why. It started before Civil War, I know, but that's kind of the big exclamation mark that with some exceptions, the general public in 616 are a bunch of douchebags, no? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	jlbarnett 2009-06-13 06:38 am UTC (link)
	the people of the MU don't deserve any of the heroes they have. I'd love it if they moved over to Counter-Earth or something. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	cmdr_zoom 2009-06-13 11:16 am UTC (link)
	"The world will look up and shout 'save us!' and I'll look down and whisper 'no.'" (Reply to this) (Parent)

	(Anonymous) 2009-06-13 07:23 am UTC (link)
	Doesn't that mean they need Cap's good example even more? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

adon_ca
2009-06-13 12:33 pm UTC (link)

Maybe, but they were pretty damn quick to reject him. Further, and this is the infuriating part to me... even after he's gone the comments like in this comic make one realize that they don't even realize what they've lost.

That's the disturbing thing... how they're willing to forget all the good he's done based on one distorted event, and even after time to reflect they don't appreciate just what a loss it was. And I can't help but think that if they can't appreciate what they had even after they lose it, are they even salvageable?

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	milleniumrex 2009-06-14 09:27 pm UTC (link)
	I realized a while back that the biggest villain in the MU is and always has been the general public. I mean, these people openly support genocidal measures against a genetic minority. It's one of the reasons I can't enjoy Marvel like I do DC. These people don't deserve their heroes. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	arilou_skiff 2009-06-13 06:43 am UTC (link)
	Cap holds a position in the US military (I'm not sure which one) now, I don't think the crime he committed was actually "treason", but rather insubordination or some such (since US has a pretty restricted treason law) in Sweden it would definitely be treason though, as he's attempting to prevent the government from executing it's functions (IE: enforcing laws) (Reply to this) (Parent)

gamerguy
2009-06-13 05:28 pm UTC (link)

Technically it could be considered treason. One of the few actual legal definitions of treason include 'making war upon your own country', or conspiring to overthrow said government. It's a stretch, but taking up arms (I would not be surprised if every superhero in the MU was considered a potential WMD) against the lawful representatives of the government could be spun into a charge of treason because the logical move once you go past Iron Man is to go after the people that gave Iron Man his orders: the US government.

I suppose it would just be too 'political' for the heroes of the MU to be filled with rage and hatred not at Tony Stark but at the POTUS.

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	xammax 2009-06-12 10:58 pm UTC (link)
	Cut this bitch Kate, cut her ass. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	pyrotwilight 2009-06-12 11:08 pm UTC (link)
	? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	jlbarnett 2009-06-13 06:57 am UTC (link)
	I think the poster expects Ricki to try to move in on Eli, so she wants Kate Bishop to make sure she doesn't. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	kingrockwell 2009-06-12 11:03 pm UTC (link)
	I love Rafael Albuquerque, and I'm really looking forward to him being regular artist on Superman/Batman! (Reply to this) (Thread)

	perletwo 2009-06-12 11:18 pm UTC (link)
	I'm digging these pages, because I really like the way he draws kids, circa Blue Beetle and some Robin stuff. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	pyrotwilight 2009-06-12 11:08 pm UTC (link)
	Rikki! YAY (Reply to this)

xlineartx
2009-06-12 11:11 pm UTC (link)

Eli!

Aw, Eli, honey, this is not the way to protect your secret identity. If you wanted to go off in public about how great Steve was and how you personally want to speak about it, you should've stuck with the full-face mask. Especially since your grandfather was also Captain America.

I don't blame him for hating his school, though. It's weirdly conservative for New York. Does anyone have scans of his YA Presents issue where some of the kids came down on him for his report on the Tuskegee experiments?

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	aaron_bourque 2009-06-13 12:28 am UTC (link)
	It's weirdly conservative for New York. Conservative, liberal, I just see it as another insular "education" institution that's more interested in not getting sued than actually teaching anyone anything of value. . . . Like most public schools. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

xlineartx
2009-06-13 01:58 am UTC (link)

No, it was the students that were like, "Y DO YOU HATE AMERICA SO MUCH ELI BRADLEY."

And most of the kids doing that were white. Usually, you see the white guilt kick in as soon as a black guy says "Tuskegee." If anything, people would be like "That's the past, like, we're sorry it happened but what do you want us to do about it? Most people aren't really racist anymore, so why are you so angry?" Rather than "If you hate it here so much, why don't you move to Iraq?" Which wouldn't be so weird in, like, 2001, but this was after Steve had died, so, no.

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	jlbarnett 2009-06-13 06:40 am UTC (link)
	you know I'd like to see his grandfather get an injection of Cap's blood and have the complete Super Soldier Serum react with it and fix him up. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	milleniumrex 2009-06-13 08:45 am UTC (link)
	Yeah, that was really weird. But then, the entire MU is kind of a fascist state where genocide of mutants is an accepted political topic, so their New York is kind of a different animal, I guess. This is why I read more DC. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	hammster.livejournal.com 2009-06-12 11:24 pm UTC (link)
	Eli Eli Eli <3 You and your sweatervest omg. Also I totally thought that girl was Molly for a second and it caused me MUCH confusion. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	galateus 2009-06-13 01:17 am UTC (link)
	Motto. To both. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	colonel_green 2009-06-13 08:47 am UTC (link)
	All the cool kids are wearing them these days. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	foxhack 2009-06-12 11:53 pm UTC (link)
	Since when can Black Widow stick to walls like Spidey? Unless he glued her ass to the wall or something. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	the_jeff 2009-06-13 01:52 am UTC (link)
	She used to do it back in Miller's Daredevil back in the day... not a huge BW fan, but that image popped in my mind when I read your comment. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	okkult3000 2009-06-13 02:17 am UTC (link)
	Per the Handbook, she uses tiny suction cups. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	okkult3000 2009-06-13 02:18 am UTC (link)
	This is coming out on Monday? How's that work? (Reply to this) (Thread)

	scorpiokyle 2009-06-13 10:22 am UTC (link)
	depends on the comic shop. i believe shops were given an option to have it shipped to them on monday, at additional costs i believe. the shop i go to won't get them until wednesday. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	sherkahn 2009-06-13 03:06 am UTC (link)
	About the mustache... I think Dr. Faustus had a make over recently, no? (Reply to this)

	runespoor7 2009-06-13 05:56 am UTC (link)
	So he's asking the school to endorse his defense of a guy who was tried for treason. It's not a big surprise that it won't fly, honey. An exhibition on school grounds researching and explaining why and how that happened might be more welcome. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	unknownscribler 2009-06-13 06:30 am UTC (link)
	Except he wasn't tried, he was on trial. Which means he was legally innocent of any and all charges. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	arilou_skiff 2009-06-13 06:45 am UTC (link)
	Err, he was tried. That's what being on trial means. He was not convicted however. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	unknownscribler 2009-06-13 08:10 am UTC (link)
	No, one is the present tense, one is the past tense, indicating completion of the event. As far as I recall, the trial was never completed, thus technically he was never tried. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	jlbarnett 2009-06-13 09:50 am UTC (link)
	well it did come to an end. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

starwolf_oakley
2009-06-13 11:48 am UTC (link)

I thought he was on his way to an arraignment. Exactly what the (federal?) government were going to try him for, I'm not sure. Refusal to register for the Registration Act isn't treason.

If course, I sometimes wonder exactly how far Cap was willing to go and what his "endgame" was for the Registration Act. Civil War parodies have said Cap thought a big fight would solve everything, but he wasn't that thick. It seems to me that if Cap hadn't been frozen before the end of WWII, he would have been careful not to "lose the peace."

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jlbarnett
2009-06-13 11:54 am UTC (link)

he was probably hoping that if he had time to talk and convince the people, and also showed that he and his "Secret Avengers" wouldn't allow other heroes to be imprisoned then the gov't might just give up and decide the law was unenforcible.

It's also possible he felt his friends were OOC enough, and remembered the times The Red Skull infiltrated the gov't that maybe there was some sort of mind control going on

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buttler
2009-06-13 11:46 am UTC (link)

It's funny, on some level I shouldn't even like this series. Bucky, back from the dead! Cap's dead! Now Bucky's Cap! And hey, kids, the return of Heroes Reborn! Yeah, none of that would sound even remotely like a good idea to me. (If it had been up to a vote -- which would have been a terrible idea in itself -- Sam Wilson would have been my choice to take up the shield.)

But Brubaker really makes it work. I've just a really solid series, and I've been enjoying it much more than I thought I would. The Batroc the Leaper appearance some issues back was pure gold, and Rikki was the one non-horrible thing about Heroes Reborn, and it seems kind of ingenious to work her into the story like this.

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	crinosg 2009-06-13 04:00 pm UTC (link)
	I think the principal looked more like Stalin. (Reply to this)

	midnightvoyager 2009-06-13 04:33 pm UTC (link)
	sigh. (Reply to this)

	wingsonwater 2009-06-13 11:39 pm UTC (link)
	So, if Rikki is here...where are her friends from CE? Where the hell is Hallie? (Reply to this)