Captain America #333

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7.5 pages of 23

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[halloweenjack]

His face in that last panel is frighteningly close to troll-face.

[tcampbell1000]

USA, BRO?

[halloweenjack]

U MAD STEEV

[tcampbell1000]

That's the most as-you-know-Fred splash page I've read in quite a while.

Still, mad props to Valerie Cooper. We know this is going to blow up because (1) it's an old story and (2) Walker's the kind of prideful that's due for a fall and (3) Captain America Will Always Eventually Go Back To Being Steve Rogers, but if we didn't know that, we might actually believe this is a fairly solid plan. Hell, even knowing what DID happen to Walker, her plan still comes out looking pretty good compared to what the rest of those clownshoes on the council were coming up with: Another Nuke or G.I. Max? Suing Steve Rogers? Hey, how about Nick Fury? If you had trouble keeping STEVE in line, I'm sure reining in Nick would be MUCH easier.

[I love me some Gyrich on his best days. This wasn't one of those.]

Oh, and thanks, Mathers, for assuaging all your white colleagues' guilt by saying "the world just isn't ready for a black Captain America." Truly, you are the Clarence Thomas of your day.

Finally, I realize Warhead is a throwaway villain, but that sure is one wonky motivation he's got there. "I just want America at war with somebody. Anybody! Madagascar? France? Guam? Don't care, just get it straight before dinnertime!"

[beyondthefringe]

Given Walker's early career, I'm a little surprised Warhead wasn't hired through third parties just to make Super-Patriot look good.

Hey, look, we finally got that black Captain America, and it was the Falcon. It just took a while. :)

(And then we got several more Caps of color--Danielle Cage, Samantha Wilson, Roberta Vasquez, and Kiyoshi Morales--as alternate universe or future variants.)

[cygnia]

I was gonna ask if that was the set-up w/Warhead...

[thanekos]

If he hadn't said it, one of the others would've with a euphemism.

[bradygirl_12]

Many have worn the costume and carried the shield, but none have lasted. :)

[starwolf_oakley]

We learned in issue #350 that the Red Skull (with his mind in a cloned body of Steve Rogers because comics) was at least partially behind this. I don't know if that was Marc Gruenwald's plan from the start regarding this story.

[astrakhan42]

I know it's not intentional, but I can't stop seeing the red mohawk guy in line behind Walker as Nuklon/Atom Smasher from Infinity Inc. Stay in the Marvel Universe, Al, you'll be better off!

And I forgot that Gruenwald did acknowledge Captain America's appearance in Daredevil. It makes the "replacing Captain America" plot make even more sense as a previous example.

[obsidianwolf]

No he wouldn't that's D-man in his original look the one he was sporting when he and Cap first met and then jumped in the showers together and Dennis told Cap his origin story.

[stolisomancer]

It's weird how different this looks compared to the original edition on cheap newsprint. I don't think the conversion did it any real favors.