Captain America: The Fighting Avenger, Cap learns to sling his shield

[proteus_lives]

Greetings True Believers!

Nowadays Cap can take an apple's stem off with his shield at 300 paces but it wasn't always so!

Cap's shield-slinging and Nazi-smashing skills had to be learned on the job.

This one-shot is aces and I suggest it to all Cap fans!





Cap is on one his first missions (he doesn't even have an official name yet) and he uses his mighty weapon!






He starts to get a little better...



Cap and his buddies have been captured!



Steve and crew escape and start putting Uncle Sam's foot to Hitler's ass.

And Cap finds the sweet spot.



Nazi castle goes boom!



Ha, aces.

Comments

[luxshine]

I really liked the soldiers there...

Oh, and Sergeant Modesty would've been a great codename... if only for the faces of everyone around him when he announced it.

[neuhallidae]

I MUST HAVE THIS. Sadly, I'll have to wait until next month.

[ogrebear]

I kinda like that version of his costume/uniform more than the std one.... if he had blue trousers on it would world really well imho.

[icon_uk]

I picked up this issue based on the small snippet that was posted already, am very glad I did as was adorable.

[schala_kid]

Really loved this! It was really beautiful and Steve is just so adorable!

Let's be honest...

[proteus_lives]

When is Steve not adorable? :)

Re: Let's be honest...

[schala_kid]

When drawn by Rob Liefeld...

Yeah I went there.

Re: Let's be honest...

[proteus_lives]

Ouch. Good point.

Liefeld is total ants at the picnic.

Re: Let's be honest...

[liara_shadowsong]

Eeew. Why did you have to go and say that? Now I need brain bleach.

Re: Let's be honest...

[zyriex]

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[lunasa]

I want to buy everything Brian writes. It's all so amazing.


And he apparently follows S_D. Whodathunk?

[mullon]

No one ever builds a Nazi castle in a valley.

[cainofdreaming]

Untrue. They just have to lose the valley first. And fill it with T-Rexes. And have it somewhere in the Himalayan mountain range.

Hmm, well... I guess they can't built any more of those after all.

[icon_uk]

Building any castle in a valley would be insane, the point of a castle is to be as unassailable as possible, building one with hills taller than your walls around you makes the whole point moot.

Building one on a plain mind you, that would work,and tends to be what happens in non-mountainous countries like England.

[cainofdreaming]

Is it more or less insane than building one in an undersea dome? Remember this is a Nazi castle we're talking about.

[icon_uk]

This is a European castle, being USED by the Nazis, from the looks of it, it's been around for a long time before WWII. :)

[mullon]

But they are always built on top of outstretched cliffs. They're just asking to fall over.

[cainofdreaming]

Hey, if Nazis were known for anything it was for authenticity.

...Okay, well, there might have been one or two things they were known better for. Or maybe three... Ok, so there were lots of things they were better known for, but that's got to be in the top 50 at least. I've seen castles under the south pole that didn't look a day younger than mid-14th century make.

Hmm, all this talk has made me wonder if we'll see a castle on the moon when Iron Sky is finished. Add one more reason to see it then.

[mcity]

>...Okay, well, there might have been one or two things they were known better for. Or maybe three...

Fear, genocide, and an unwavering devotion to their Furher.

[salinea]

this was way too adorable!

[valtyr]

This was so adorable and I loved it. I wish there were more. The expressions are great, too.

(also, hijacking this post to announce we're having a party post at cap_ironman, anyone who likes Steve or Tony welcome to come.)

[screamsheet.wordpress.com]

Having not learned about Thor: The Mighty Avenger until it was canceled, I will try to rectify my error by picking up this and doing my best to support a comic book that's not afraid to be fun.

[nezchan]

...and maybe encourage a crossover?

[strannik01]

Except it's a limited series

[screamsheet.wordpress.com]

Curses. Foiled again.

[arilou_skiff]

Even the nazis look kind of cuddly!

Which is a bit disturbing, but hey.

[blackruzsa]

OHMYGODILOVETHIS. *foams*

And really, even if "blowed up" isn't right, it fits so perfectly into the dialogue. And, well, human speech, so no arguments here.

Steve and crew escape and start putting Uncle Sam's foot to Hitler's ass.

And Cap finds the sweet spot.

Of course you had to XD

[autumn_lily]

I read this and want to snuggle Cap like a plushie!

[darkknightjrk]

You know, it's used as a joke, but it does make me wonder just what went through Steve's head when he decided the best use for this super-powerful shield that could take a tank shell was to throw it at his opponent.

[joasakura]

In perfect seriousness, the first time, I can easily imagine it was like when I picked up a branch to shove at a rabid fox to save my chickens: OH SHIT OH SHIT :basic primal instinct to throw something at an enemy or shove a pointy thing at it: OH SHIT OH SHIT

Making with the earth logic didn't set in until well afterwards. >.>;

[janegray]

Like in Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls. Ace is given an extremely important magical amulet, but when bats fly at him he freaks out and throws it at them XD

[liara_shadowsong]

I'm not sure. I think his "good idea at the time" was "throw something at them! anything! how about this round thing attached to my arm?!" *smash*

[janegray]

It's a crying shame that it only lasted one (admittedly big) issue. This should have been at least a mini :(

Yes, all-age titles sell poorly. Because they are sold in places where kids can't get them.

The average comic store-going customer may not like them, but the average comic store-going customer has got crap taste is not a kid. Sell them in grocery stores and the like and I'm sure the sales would pick up.

[neuhallidae]

I have a tough time imagining kids reading comics in my city, unless they both have internet access for ordering, and the money to pay for it. The last major (secular) bookstore on the entire east side closed last year, and we have no comic shops. Your options are either Toys R' Us, which is always at least two or three months behind and doesn't carry anything that the companies don't heavily market (aside from what they get from BOOM, there are no all-ages titles, which is fucking stupid on the Big Two's part, because what is Toys R' Us if not a perfect place for the all-ages titles?), or taking the 25-minute-minimum (if you have access to a car and don't have to bus it) trip to the west side of the city, where there's still a Borders. There's still the libraries, but honestly, ours don't give a shit about comics. I even offered to donate some graphic novels when I was moving and had no space for them, and the local branch was all "thanks, but no thanks".

[neuhallidae]

...Aw, boo, I screwed up the HTML. Stupid sticky slash key.

[blunderbuss]

Oh MY GOD THIS IS SO ADORABLE. I just want to leap into the page and hug Cap and never let him go.

Could you also tell me who the artist is? I just simply love this style - simple, clean, but not too cartoony.

[halloweenjack]

This is cool. Usually, when Cap's origin is shown, you get a sort of training montage (I'm thinking of the Stern/Byrne version, specifically) and he's in full-on Cap mode by the time of his first mission; this is much better.

[mcity]

No, seriously, why are they shooting at his feet?

[selke]

D'aw!

[roguefankc]

...I like this Cap. He's good hearted, yet learning the basics of heroism in such a noobish way that he's completely adorkable!

Thanks for this. Damn, only a single issue. I'd read a whole series on this as long as Cap continues to be a beginning woobie!

[pepperspray101]

This is soooo cute! I love this! The style reminds me a bit of Full Metal Alchemist and Avatar The Last Airbender....VERY CUTE! :D

[recognitions]

Not to be no fun guy, but am I the only one who feels like this is awfully light-hearted for WWII? Maybe it's just because I recently watched part of the Ken Burns documentary and this doesn't remind me of what those guys said they went through at all.