Captain America: Man Out of Time #3
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scans_dailyAfter some of the discussion concerning Man Out of Time #4, I went to look at issue #3 at my LCS. I'd been skipping the miniseries because, as I noted on the thread, it's a pretty well-worn plot for Cap stories, and we've seen it as recently as the early issues dealing with Ultimate Cap, or Joe Kelly's Earth's Mightiest Heroes mini from a couple of years ago.
Given how some of the discussion's gone on the previous post, though, it seems like a good idea to put up a couple of pages from #3.
As the book opens, Hank and Tony are trying to talk Cap out of using the FF's time machine and going back to 1945 to save Bucky, because the time machine's untested technology and they don't know what it's going to do. Cap, who's suffering from a really vicious case of future shock, is adamant that the future doesn't need him and he doesn't belong in this era.
(The sliding timescale really screws up this story, as Tony's walking around in the pointy-headed early armor and offhandedly mentions Jimi Hendrix being alive, but he's got a camera on his cell phone, he plays Radiohead for Steve, he talks about the Challenger disaster, the president in this story is clearly Obama, and argh.)
Tony decides to invite Steve aboard the Stark Industries party jet for a night on the town, to display what's good about the modern era. Among other things, he mentions that polio and smallpox are gone.
Steve winds up liking the sound of an electric guitar, but it's not quite enough, so Tony takes him to the Smithsonian.
There's a scene after this where Cap meets the current President ("Can I get you anything? Coffee? Water? Medal of Honor?"), but the big scene in the issue, I think, is Cap watching the MLK speech. There's something very apt about Tony Stark as the ambassador of the present to the past.
Given how some of the discussion's gone on the previous post, though, it seems like a good idea to put up a couple of pages from #3.
As the book opens, Hank and Tony are trying to talk Cap out of using the FF's time machine and going back to 1945 to save Bucky, because the time machine's untested technology and they don't know what it's going to do. Cap, who's suffering from a really vicious case of future shock, is adamant that the future doesn't need him and he doesn't belong in this era.
(The sliding timescale really screws up this story, as Tony's walking around in the pointy-headed early armor and offhandedly mentions Jimi Hendrix being alive, but he's got a camera on his cell phone, he plays Radiohead for Steve, he talks about the Challenger disaster, the president in this story is clearly Obama, and argh.)
Tony decides to invite Steve aboard the Stark Industries party jet for a night on the town, to display what's good about the modern era. Among other things, he mentions that polio and smallpox are gone.
Steve winds up liking the sound of an electric guitar, but it's not quite enough, so Tony takes him to the Smithsonian.
There's a scene after this where Cap meets the current President ("Can I get you anything? Coffee? Water? Medal of Honor?"), but the big scene in the issue, I think, is Cap watching the MLK speech. There's something very apt about Tony Stark as the ambassador of the present to the past.
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Date: 2011-02-21 06:24 pm (UTC)Because comics are written by geeks for geeks, which means the subtle but important differences between someone who appreciates the social context of NASA and someone who just wants to figure out how to make a better rocket are lost on them.