EXCLUSIVE: Major Captain America HYDRA Revelations In ‘Captain America: Steve Rogers #2’:
Warning – Spoilers for Captain America: Steve Rogers #2 are below.
Last month, Marvel Comics shocked the fan community by revealing in the pages of Captain America: Steve Rogers #1
that Steve Rogers, who only just returned to his role as Captain
America, has actually been a Hydra sleeper agent since he was a boy.However, despite what Steve Rogers remembers from his childhood, things are not what they seem. Captain America: Steve Rogers #2,
from the creative team of writer Nick Spencer and artist Jesus Saiz,
reveals that Steve’s memories of indoctrination were implanted by Kobik,
the sentient Cosmic Cube who became a girl. Not only that, but Kobik
has been under the influence of Steve Rogers’ most fearsome archenemies,
the Red Skull, for months.Has the Red Skull finally broken Captain America by turning him to
Hydra’s side? ComicBook.com caught up with Marvel Editor-in-Chief Axel
Alonso to ask him about this second twist in Steve Rogers’ story. You
can also see the reveal for yourself in preview pages from Captain America: Steve Rogers #2 included in the gallery at the bottom of the page.This is about what I figured it’d be (not that it makes it any better)…
… but isn’t Kobik running around with the new Thunderbolts?
Thank god this is just Cosmic Cube style fuckery which means that this can be undone and Steve can be restored to the way he’s MEANT to be
I…okay…? Then what was the point of pushing the idea that this was the real Steve Rogers, with no mind control or clone shenanigans or alternate universe wonky-ness or time travel things if they were just going to do this?
To make us all feel physically ill and repulsed for a month? It’s barely even a twist in the first place, and certainly not one worth keeping close to the chest for the ‘big reveal’. I mean, for God’s sake, Steve has been mind-controlled into working for the nazis how many times at this point?
It’s one thing to do that story again, but it’s quite another to assert, with some insane amount of pride, in interviews and all over the media that ‘oh we’re for real this time yeah he’s been a nazi this whole time guys aren’t I brilliant aren’t you all SO MAD’?
UGH.
Yeah seriously I get not wanting to spoil a twist but they could have just been like ‘Wait and see what happens’ instead of being like ‘Oh yeah this is definitely for real 100% it’s totally not a trick of any kind’ and basically making a lot of people think that a bad ass hero created by Jewish comics creators had been retconned into secretly having been a lifelong Nazi ._.
The point was advertising: to ride the publicity high from the movies and make a big stink so that people would 1: buy the comic or 2: at least be so loudly outraged that they’d give Marvel free publicity. Both of which worked.
This isn’t a sudden retcon. They had this plot outlined before they started writing the arc. Comics work a lot like seasons in a TV series that way. They just did the usual dance around the specific wording that PR trolls always do
(”We didn’t say it wasn’t cosmic timeline-fuckery, did we?”). You see this all the time from producers like Steve Moffat and Joss Whedon. Comics writers are the people who perfected the art. They’ve been doing this for decades. Unfortunately this time people who weren’t experienced comics fans got caught up in it.
This is why they were acting so callously smug; because from where they were sitting, they only saw that they’d pulled a good one over on the audience and everybody was excited about their scintillating plot twist. But the actual obnoxious thing about it was always the exploitation of real human suffering as a cheap marketing ploy.
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