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10:09 pm
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"We surrender! Just keep that sidekick away from us!"
The kid sidekicks of Golden Age comics are a genre convention that seems indefensible today. A grown man putting on a costume and going out to fight criminals (sometimes with super-powers but most often with just fists) can be accepted as the basic premise. But for the same guy to bring along a minor (usually shown as about fourteen or fifteen, often clearly younger)into mortal danger is hard to defend. Despite all the training and preparation, taking a kid up against armed gangsters seems like an unacceptable practice from today's viewpoint.
Except for Bucky. Say he was fifteen when he first became Captain America's partner. The truth is that an awful lot of underage boys got into the armed forces in WW II. There was intense patriotic fervor, and computer background checks were not even dreamed of. It was much easier to fake an ID back then, and the demand for manpower led to many recruits getting only a cursory check before being put into training. "If you can walk up to the draft board under your own steam, they'll take you."Not having the Super-Soldier serum or an indestructible shield, Bucky was a tough egg anyway. Did he grow up in the slums, fighting among street gangs? Once he put on that costume and went up against Japanese and German troops (not to mention various mad scientists, masked villains, monsters and fiends), Bucky had no reluctance against using a little equalizer.
Tags: char: captain america/bucky barnes, char: captain america/steve rogers, era: golden age, publisher: marvel comics, title: captain america
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10:55 pm
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When Bucky met Eli and Kate
It's "Captain America Week" on Marvel.com, and, as you'd expect, current writer/genius Ed Brubaker is featured a lot; in an interview about the upcoming #600 and beyond, including some discussion of guest characters. Among those mentioned, "characters from the Young Avengers". I've been expecting/hoping for some of them to pop up in the main title at some point, since Brubaker has written a couple of team-ups between them and Bucky. So, since that got me thinking about them, here they are for the new s_d.
( What century are you from? )
Tags: char: captain america/bucky barnes, char: hawkeye/kate bishop, char: patriot/eli bradley, char: vision/jonas, creator: ed brubaker, creator: lee weeks, creator: paco medina, group: young avengers, title: captain america
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04:45 pm
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The Windshield of Destiny
Four scans from Captain America #49, in which there is an emotional scene, wacky dreamscapes, and quite possibly the best line of the series so far.
Tags: char: arnim zola, char: falcon/sam wilson, char: red skull/johann schmidt, char: sharon carter, creator: ed brubaker, creator: luke ross, publisher: marvel comics, title: captain america
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11:14 am
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Preview of Captain America #49
After the 6-issue sojourn to China, we catch up with everyone's favourite Manchurian candidate, Sharon Carter, and her retconned-aunt (used-to-be-sister) Peggy. They have a lot in common, starting with both having fucked Steve.
Tags: char: captain america/steve rogers, char: sharon carter, creator: ed brubaker, creator: luke ross, creator: steve epting, title: captain america
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08:19 pm
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All's Well That Ends Well
In a two-for-one pack, some pages from the wrap-up of Mighty Avengers #23, the end of the first arc, and Captain America #48, in which, rarity of rarities, there is a scene in daylight.
Tags: char: ant-man/wasp/hank pym, char: black widow/natasha romanova, char: captain america/bucky barnes, char: loki, char: scarlet witch/wanda maximoff, char: stature/cassie lang, char: sub-mariner/namor mckenzie, char: thor, char: vision/jonas, creator: butch guice, creator: dan slott, creator: ed brubaker, creator: khoi pham, publisher: marvel comics, title: captain america, title: mighty avengers
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