Some of my favorite Captain America Woobie.

[proteus_lives]

Greetings True Believers! I want to present some of my favorite pages from the Captain America graphic novel, Red, White & Blue. I really like this book. The contributions from various writers and artists really capture Steve. I hope you enjoy and be forewarned, there is a lot of woobie ahead.

Bonus Cap-Points if you know where this preview image is from! ;)



Suggested Tags: char: captain america/steve rogers, char: falcon/sam wilson, char: captain america/bucky barnes, group: avengers, title: captain america, publisher: marvel comics, theme: woobie, creator: bruce timm, creator: darko macan, creator: mark waid, creator: mike huddleston, creator: bill sienkiewicz, creator: brian david-marshall, creator: igor kordey, creator: evan dorkin, creator: kevin maguire



Cap is fighting a Nazi werewolf during WII.



Cap and a army unit are advancing through the German countryside when a German farmer says his daughter is trapped inside a local castle. Cap goes looking for her but the lord of the castle is a Nazi agent/werewolf. They fight but Cap hears the girl trapped inside the castle's well.





Now I want a Captain America: TAS.

This one is my favorite. It's about Cap and Bucky and sleeping in the ice.



Cap dreams of him and Bucky fighting evil after the war and seeing the years go by. With him getting older and Bucky becoming an adult. The future is a what a man who grow up reading pulp fiction might imagine it to be. Flying cars, cities on the moon. At the bottom of each page is a panel showing the ice forming around Steve.

Steve is an old man dying in the hospital with Bucky by his side.







Man, those pages give me chills each time. They are the perfect pages about Cap and Bucky.

Now a Cap-death story. Cap is warned about a nuclear bomb in New Jersey. A cult of old Nazi scientists have decided to take revenge on America.

They're all dressed like the Red Skull.



Cap is captured and tied to an Iron Eagle while the head-skull monologues.







The nations learns of Cap's death and mourns. Here are his friends and enemies reactions alike.









Loved those. I like Jarvis and Batroc the best.

Sam speaks at Cap's funeral.





The woobie is strong here. Steve is a good character for it. Just the right amount. I hope everyone enjoyed!

Comments

[auggie18]

Maquire art was ten different kinds of perfect for that story.

So, um, how did he un-die?

[foxhack]

Soul traveled in time and got resurrected somehow.

[corrinal]

Um...they rebooted, we got a 'relevant" Cap and then they ignored it and rebooted w/Brubaker.

[icon_uk]

Now I want a Captain America: TAS.

So did Will Meuginot and Saban back in 1998. Read it and weep what for what might have been

it would have had the Red Skull, and Nazis, and Bucky and EVERYTHING!

A true "What If?"!

[proteus_lives]

I went through that site and there good parts and bad but it should at least been given a shot!

Damn you spirit for showing me a what might of been! ;)

[stig]

The quote in your preview pic is Mr. Bumble from Oliver Twist, is it not? I recall because of Harry Secombe's magnificent delivery of the line in 'Oliver!'.

[cleome45]

I think it was also the name of a column that ran in The Comics Buyer's Guide.

[bradhanon]

I am literally tearing up from reading those last few pages again.

Everyone in there is perfectly in character. If you were picking out one panel to sum up what a character is like, you could do worse than grabbing one out of that story.

[thehefner]

What gets me is how it's written by Evan Dorkin, whom I generally assume to be something of a hardened cynic with little interest in mainstream comics. I love it when those guys can get to the hearts of these characters.

[jkcarrier]

That "Hulk sad" panel just slays me. It's touching and hilarious at the same time. I also like the distinction between the villains who genuinely hate him and the ones who grudgingly respect him: "Eh, it was nothing personal." I guess ultimately I prefer to see Evan Dorkin doing his own thing, but he does have a really nice touch with these classic Marvel characters.

[joasakura]

that's how I felt about the "hulk sad" panel too- it's like "tee-hee-Awwww"

[cainofdreaming]

The law might be an ass, but it is yours everyone is staring at Steve.

Intently.

[wasabi.livejournal.com]

Let's put it behind us and never speak of it again.

[nezchan]

Iron Man's teeny-tiny little face just totally blows any emotional impact the mourners might have had for me. I'm just laughing too hard.

[fifes]

I love the art for the Cap-in-the-ice one so much.

[thehefner]

As do I, and I think it's almost entirely due to Sienkiewicz. Which makes me particularly sad that people are hating the art in GREEN ARROW AND BLACK CANARY, because dang, that guy seriously needs a good book for his abilities.

About the Werewolf-Nazi...

[silverzeo]

With the stroy the Nazi Werewolf... he's story I didn't believe. I know it's like a whole thing on perspective of where one stands with a country, but wasn't Germany forced to work with the Nazis? I mean, I know he saying like it was Patriotic Pride for his country, but I think I remember that the only reason why the German people went along with the Nazis because you were either with them or dead Also, was he not aware that there were a whole bunch of people having most more cruel deaths then falling down a well in his country history? I am pretty sure being werewolf, it was a matter of time before the higher ups would try to kill him or take everything away from him.... but that's just me. Speaking of which, since he is werewolf, and thus have immortality, than he would still be around, helping RedSkull with his plans no?

[bradhanon]

Oh, and for my bonus Cap-points, I believe that image is from the Cap novel "Liberty's Torch".

Man, that wasn't very good.

[proteus_lives]

You are correct sir!

It wasn't a very good novel but I do love the Marvel prose stuff. Great bathroom books.

[pseudo_tsuga]

I've never read any of these comics in full and I'm still tearing up. Good choice on scans.

[joysweeper]

Oh, I have this! Cool. I posted the response-to-Cap's-death issue back on old S-D.