So, who will wield the shield?

[colonel_green]

Four scans from Captain America: Who Will Wield The Shield?

So Steve is back (and back with Sharon).  Natasha thinks that Bucky should still keep the name (wonders why there can't be two), but Bucky is adamant that Steve will want his job back and prepares to give it up.  He and Natasha go out for one last patrol, and run across Steve; together they beat Mr. Hyde.  However, Steve has other plans:




We cut to the White House, where the receptionist shows him into the Oval:




That honestly wasn't what I was expecting to see.  Notwithstanding the annoying scheduling, can't wait to see where things go from here.
 

Comments

[thokstar]

Wow. "Barack Obama" is almost in character (the quotation marks are because we never see his unshadowed face in these scans and never hear his name; Marvel seems to be going for plausible deniability for some reason.)

[skywaterblue]

My thoughts exactly. Brubaker did a good job on the dialogue - sounds like his Illinois twang.

[thandrak]

And his cautious-but-precise way of handling things. Very good job.

[joysweeper]

Motto.

[skywaterblue]

Also, how plausibly deniable can it be when they lifted Obama's signature off the web and photoshop copypastaed it?

[bmaryott]

I think they're trying to avoid a flashback to "We started to turn Reagan into a snake" or something... Which was a Captain America story too come to think about it...

Personally, I'd still rather Steve in costume and Bucky as SHIELD director - which makes MORE sense considering Bucky has spy/intelligence background.

[fredneil.livejournal.com]

We do see him write his name, though, and it looks very close to "Barack Obama." He could turn out to be "Bruce Orion," or something. That would be pointless now, but if they were planning to do something like have Norman Osborn assasinate the president, they might want to have some distinction between the Marvel universe president and the universe universe president.

[filthysize]

Actually, if you have the issue, you can read the entire text on that paper he's writing. The first line is, "I, Barack H. Obama, President of the United States..."