9/7/2023 0 Comments Captain carter and steve![]() ![]() Unfortunately, I guess this is still a job for the USA. It’s a fun design (though I wish she was beefier), but I’m not sure anyone has an actual great idea for her. I wish Captain Carter: Woman out of Time was better. It’s a fairly real look at conversations that literally happen daily, and although the result in the comic is far more optimistic than reality, it doesn’t feel fabricated the way a lot of the other discussions in the book do. I was also impressed by the way the book starts with a bunch of guys standing around debating the autonomy of a superheroine that just woke up from a 70 year slumber. There are a lot of tasty metaphors at play there that work well for me, particularly the immediate comparison between vampirism and the super soldier serum, but also the way the politicians suck the life out of common people. ![]() While the book mostly does just play the hits, there are a couple of ideas that really work, and show that maybe there’s enough meat on the bones to really dig into the character, and that this is a setting worth spending time in.įirst, HYDRA-more specifically politicians-being vampires is just lovely. What happens is we end up with a Peggy defined by the negative space around Steve Rogers, and the characterization feels empty, which itself feeds off of the story, as the only reason the films work is because the character work with Steve is so good. ![]() As Howard pushes several buttons to send the monster where it came from, Captain Carter takes on the beast herself. Meanwhile, Bucky and his troop discover Hydra had taken Steve and The Hydra Stomper hostage. Where the book isn’t drawing comparisons to The First Avenger or Winter Soldier, it’s reminding you of other, better Captain America comics where Steve questions what it means to be an American. Unfortunately for Red Skull, the monster he unleashed crushes him in front of Captain Carter and Stark. The effect that this has is that, despite being the main character, Peggy still feels like a supporting character in her own book. Sure, we don’t literally get an elevator scene, but we do get an approximation, and Captain fights MMA Batroc. But in a more tangible way, we just got Diet Winter Soldier but in London. So when you take him out, or you make him into the support, you have to fundamentally shift the narrative, and characters. She develops as a response to him, and exists to support his story. Where Steve Rogers exists, Peggy is pointed in nearby, just off-center. Peggy Carter is a character that exists in tandem with Steve Rogers. Listen to the latest episode of our weekly comics podcast! Warning: contains spoilers for Captain Carter 1. ![]()
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