Man out of Time #2

[arbre_rieur]

Captain America, fresh out of the iceberg, is still having a difficult time adjusting to the modern world when he meets the one and only Rick Jones, Esq.



Rick Jones requests Cap's help in saving the Avengers. Cap thinks all of this is a dream he's having, but he plays along anyway.



If you don't understand the significance of the two silent panels, think about what sharing a motorcycle with someone would remind Steve Rogers of.



Things unfold pretty much as they did way back in AVENGERS #4 from the Silver Age: Cap and Rick discover that the Avengers have been turned to stone by one of those broccoli-headed aliens whose planet Dark Phoenix eventually ate years later.

Comments

[proteus_lives]

Steve crying for FDR?

So right and true.

[nezchan]

If he's out of time, he'd better hurry up!

[badficwriter]

I've been really enjoying this particular Cap series. It combines my fondness of giving Steve an actual human flaw and my love of history. Despite all the tarnishing, I still love FDR. Curiousity about their relationship kept me going through Winston Churchill's history of World War II.

[crinos]

I'm watching the Latest season of Doctor Who through the Netflix, and last week I saw the episode of the Daleks in WW2 London. Churchill and The Doctor are now my OTBFF's.

[blackruzsa]

Aw. The half-Rick, half Bucky thing was nicely drawn. It got me.

[blake_reitz]

I'm liking that effect. It has a dreamlike quality to it.

[icon_uk]

Yes, nice touch, though seeing Cap picturing the handsome young man in front of him, with a different hairstyle and wearing consistently LESS than he appears to be in reailty could be misconstrued by those with smutty minds... well, okay, me.

[psychopathicus_rex]

Given how flawless Cap is sometimes portrayed, it's kind of refreshing to see a sequence where he is coming dangerously close to hysteria.

[thehefner]

I'm currently reading J.M. DeMatteis' Cap run, now that I've tracked down all the issues. I'm struck by how flawed JMD's Cap is, known to snap into fits of rage and ready to beat someone to death or threaten them for information, before he catches himself, calms down, and apologizes.

He even starts delving into self-pity and martyrdom, until a friend calls him out on his bullshit and brings him to reality, after which Cap makes an active effort to stop pitying himself. It's so fascinating to see Cap depicted as a human being, but one who also faces up to his flaws and actually deals with them.

Combined with the fact that he's also an extremely good-hearted person and an adorably un-hip square, it's no wonder that these issues are what's actually getting my DC-loving girlfriend to love Steve as a character.

[psychopathicus_rex]

Yeah, to my mind, the best way to portray an archetypical 'good guy' character, like Cap or Superman, is to portray them as a CHARACTER first and foremost. You don't need to give them flaws all over the place, but if they come off as a real person, their heroism and idealism will be accentuated far more than a straightforward 'here I come to save the day!' portrayal could ever do.

[kirke_novak]

I was always fascinated by the "out of time" concept - a person who is brought into our times from the past. I love they are actually doing an entire series for Cap.

[rebecky-mo.livejournal.com]

*eyes series*

...

Okay Marvel, I'm still REALLY ticked about Thor:The Mighty Avenger. But I may give you a second chance here.

[cypherfdp]

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[timgueugen]

The War To End All Wars was World War One, not World War Two.