CAPTAIN OF NOTHING
Written by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Penciled by Adam Kubert
Published Jan-Jun 2019
Penciled by Adam Kubert
Published Jan-Jun 2019
With Thunderbolt Ross mysteriously dead, as well as the Power Elite making moves to frame him, Captain America is under heavy suspicion and decides to turn himself in. Bucky does all he can to try and track down leads but it's to no avail. Steve Rogers finds himself in Baron Von Strukcer's private prison - the Myrmidon as Sharon Carter reveals her new top secret crime fighting squad: The Daughters of Liberty.
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| TA--DAAAAAA! |
Forced to try and find allies, Cap does his best to fit in - all the while the prisoners are forced to watch their peers' livestreamed torture sessions. Meanwhile, Selene and Alexa Lukin murder Steve's evil Hydra counterpart to further the Real-Steve-Is-Still-Evil-Steve ruse. Sharon blackmails the Kingpin and gets info on Ross's real murderer...the elusive assassin known as The Foreigner.
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| This took an entire jump drive to reveal? One page? And it looks like they Photoshopped it for effect... |
Alexa Lukin meets up at the Fact Channel offices to spin the Supreme Commander connection. back at the safe room, the Daughters give a status report to their defacto leader, the Dryad. The first attempt to help Cap break out of jail is by triggering a riot, though all it really does is just help bolster the Fact Channel's fake news.
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| Sharon Carter probably has the text all enlarged. |
Undeterred, Daughter member Susan Franklin breaks in and doses her inside man Thunderball with a technovirus. As his condition continues to worsen, he's brought to the prison sickbay while Von Strucker viciously fights a weakened Captain America in front of everyone. Luckily Thunderball's chaos virus disables the prison's power dampeners, allowing the gen pop to fairly fight back.
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| Oh y'all did it now! |
Things get violent inside the Myrmidon. While the Daughters of Liberty work in lockstep to infiltrate their plan, the Dryad finally faces off with the Foreigner. With Von Strucker's guards on the ropes, he deploys his robot AmeriCops - who are quickly disabled by Misty Knight. With the prison unguarded, the criminals all flee into New York, but more importantly, the Daughters have freed Cap, and captured Von Strucker as well.
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| We can float them back in this Wubble Ball. |
Now a fugitive - again, Steve and Sharon consider their options. A world that is now teetering on edge of believing Captain America was actually the Hydra leader. He meets with the Daughters of Liberty and explains their next mission will be to drive Cap's message in the absence of an actual Captain America. Because while Captain America is dead, Steve Rogers lives. And as the last page reveals - so does Peggy Carter? The Dryad? So what does this mean? We'll have to wait as this story comes to a close.
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| Agent Carter - sporting the rad new nose ring look. |
So Captain America is a wanted man again. This isn't really anything new, but under the tutelage of Coates and Kubert, they certainly know how to put a different spin on things. Should be an interesting thing seeing how Peggy Carter somehow rose from the dead, and even more interesting - how will Steve Rogers react. Either way, this series did an excellent job moving away from though keeping the Secret Empire arc alive and well, and it was such a brilliant tale, I believe it certainly deserves as much. I give this one a 9/10.
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