Captain America #700

OUT OF TIME pt III

Written by Mark Waid
Penciled by Chris Samnee
Cover by Chris Samnee
Published April 11, 2018

   While Cap and his fellow troops fight invaders, he barks strategy and is able to turn the tide against them. Sargent Ben Grimm radios for help but Cap has to turn him down.

Ok, I thought about it, Ben. The answer is no.

   Back at HQ, he laments to Liang that there's too many foreign enemies making a run at the vulnerable USA. Thanks to Bruce Banner, they can send him back in time to stop Babbington from ever gaining power. But he just can't accept their offer.

...and leave this hellhole?! Why would I ever want to do that?

   Over the next year, he works with everyday Americans to bring the country back. The struggle is tiring, but winnable... That is until a nuclear blast takes out New York.

You know what guys? I thought about it a little more. I'm in.

   Cap relents and tells Liang and Banner he has no choice and has to go back. Liang tells him to look her up sometime and he zips through the timestream, a mere seconds before he gets frozen again in the ice. Leaping off the mountainside to intervene, he lands on Rampart's boat.
   The pre-mutated Babbington is informed that the Captain has somehow gotten loose. Systematically taking out guard after guard, he finds his way to the ship's control room. There seeing the man that started it all, he flings his shield and attempts to incapacitate the launch systems.

This usually works... Aw dang.

   Unfortunately he fails, and leaping onto the missile, he knows there's only one thing he can do. Cap climbs the warhead and tears at the outer shell, resulting in the missile detonating and blowing the ship into bits.
   Back in the water, the original Captain America breaks free. The issue wraps with him penning a letter to Sharon Carter, with no knowledge of how the Rampart ship exploded. He delivers the letter to Liang, a US Postal Worker in the present. With that, this issue and this stroy arc come to a conclusion.

There's just something about that mailperson that's oddly familiar.

   Mark Waid is an amazing writer. With the Bendis exodus, Marvel needs to wrap this guy up. Fresh off the heels of his run in Avengers and now this? I don't know if the guy can tell a bad story. I give this one a 10/10.

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