Hearts and Minds

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Four scans from Captain America: Reborn #5, along with a preview for the imminent Who Will Wield The Shield? and a few pieces from Reborn #4.

Steve finds himself trapped in a special "box" inside the Red Skull's mind that looks like a Nazified New York City:




When you stop to think about it, realize that this is the first time Steve and the Skull have actually confronted each other in several years of publication time.

They fight; meanwhile, Skull-Cap is simultaneously leading his evil minions against an ad hoc group of heroes out to stop him (New Cap, Black Widow, Hank Pym, Falcon, Ronin, and Vision, but they neutralized the latter). Bucky fights Skull-Cap:




Skull-Cap raises the shield to slice off Bucky's head, declaring "Time for a new morning in America..."

The fate of the Skull is really the only thing that's up in the air at this point, but this was a good issue anyway.

The CBR lettered preview for Captain America: Who Will Wield The Shield?

Looking over that issue's "Previously" page, one bit I found interesting was the mention that Steve, on his voyage through time, got "a glimpse of the future". That could be something yet to be revealed, but there were two images in the big double-splash of him getting pulled through time in #4 that aren't past events:



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Comments

[colonel_green]

I originally thought it was Mrs. Rogers, but, yeah, the mask looks very modern.

The three possibilities that I could think of:

1. Mrs. Rogers (with possibly period-inappropriate oxygen mask).

2. Peggy Carter (who we were recently reintroduced to as an old woman of similar appearance).

3. Distant-future Sharon, though that would mean that Brubaker subscribes to the idea that the serum makes Cap more or less immortal (see: 1602).

[valtyr]

I'm sure we saw Steve, much younger, at his dying mother's bedside earlier in this run? So I doubt it's that.

I had thought 2) but did not consider 3). Hm.