Doctor Doom & Rocket Raccoon #1

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[huntleyhaverstock]

JMS's first six issues of his Cap run were incredible -- one of the best Captain America stories I've ever read. Seriously, go seek it out if you haven't seen it. It's largely a flashback to pre-serum Steve Rogers and a motley gang of friends and allies trying to stop a Nazi plot centered around the real life German-American Bund rally at Madison Square Garden. It brilliantly and subtly establishes that even before Steve was Cap, he had a shield -- the community of people around him, who he helped and who helped him in a web of mutual kindness and care.

There's an incredible sequence taking place in multiple time periods simultaneously. There's Doctor Strange astral-projecting into an action figure. It's superb.

Then he finished up that story and ... man, I can't even figure out how to summarize what came next. But it sure wasn't that.

[full_metal_ox]

It's largely a flashback to pre-serum Steve Rogers and a motley gang of friends and allies trying to stop a Nazi plot centered around the real life German-American Bund rally at Madison Square Garden. It brilliantly and subtly establishes that even before Steve was Cap, he had a shield -- the community of people around him, who he helped and who helped him in a web of mutual kindness and care.

Heroism that the Kids At Home can do.