Now I love Brubaker’s Captain America. I love it. LOVE LOVE GIRLY GODDAMNED LOVE that book. It’s a given and that’s why this site hasn’t become Snap Judgments On How Awesome Brubaker’s Cap Is; I just assume everyone coming here either loves the book already (good for you) or doesn’t like it and my expousing over its awesome-ocity isn’t going to do more than annoy. So there you go.
BUT! I just have to share this: there’s this great moment in the last issue of Captain America, issue #32 that gave me a reaction I honestly hadn’t had in a long time. Let me explain: this issue, Black Widow and Falcon are going into a secret evil base where Doctor Faustus has Sharon Carter and the Winter Soldier. Despite having recently been taken out by Sharon and told that she’s under the control of Doctor Faustus, they go in to rescue her and boy, do they get down to business. Falcon and the Black Widow are kicking ass against Red Skull’s personal AIM department, RAID:
That’s what I’m talking ’bout. Kicks to the face busting in and making a bee line for the objective. Don’t pause, no quips for the hell of it, no. These two are here on business.
In a moment of panic, some poor fool of a guard has to run and tell Dr. Faustus, who’s technically in charge of the base Falcon and Widow are making mince meat of, what’s going on. Not a job anyone wants to have, but the way he tells Faustus evoked an emotional response from me, the reader:
Do you hear that? The panic? The fear? THE AVENGERS! HOLY CRAP! WE’RE DOOOOOMED!!
There’s something to that, a sense of ‘run for your life! the heroes are here!’ that’s been missing from the Avengers a group of people who really should inspire that kind of reaction from the seasoned villain. Remember when they did stuff like this? Storm a villain’s headquarters and bust heads until they got what they needed? Rescue friends and comrades despite the circumstances and … well, avenge things? Jumping into adventure with a plan and the determination to see it through?
This is Marvel’s JLA but I like to think that they’d be even worse in the minds of villainy. DC’s Justice League is so powerful they hold themselves in a certain degree of check. They have to considering just how powerful those characters are; if they didn’t… well, they’d be the Authority. The Avengers (at least, the Avengers of old) weren’t exactly able to leap tall buildings in a single bound and had a little more of that human tenacity. And when there’s more at stake, more danger involved, things get a little more dangerous.
Now, as you can see the guard does explain it is just two Avengers but for a moment just one slim moment, I like to think that Doctor Faustus peed his pants. Just a little.
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Now I love Brubaker’s Captain America. I love it. LOVE LOVE GIRLY GODDAMNED LOVE that book. It’s a given and that’s why this site hasn’t become Snap Judgments On How Awesome Brubaker’s Cap Is; I just assume everyone coming here either loves the book already (good for you) or doesn’t like it and my expousing over its awesome-ocity isn’t going to do more than annoy. So there you go.
BUT! I just have to share this: there’s this great moment in the last issue of Captain America, issue #32 that gave me a reaction I honestly hadn’t had in a long time. Let me explain: this issue, Black Widow and Falcon are going into a secret evil base where Doctor Faustus has Sharon Carter and the Winter Soldier. Despite having recently been taken out by Sharon and told that she’s under the control of Doctor Faustus, they go in to rescue her and boy, do they get down to business. Falcon and the Black Widow are kicking ass against Red Skull’s personal AIM department, RAID:
That’s what I’m talking ’bout. Kicks to the face busting in and making a bee line for the objective. Don’t pause, no quips for the hell of it, no. These two are here on business.
In a moment of panic, some poor fool of a guard has to run and tell Dr. Faustus, who’s technically in charge of the base Falcon and Widow are making mince meat of, what’s going on. Not a job anyone wants to have, but the way he tells Faustus evoked an emotional response from me, the reader:
Do you hear that? The panic? The fear? THE AVENGERS! HOLY CRAP! WE’RE DOOOOOMED!!
There’s something to that, a sense of ‘run for your life! the heroes are here!’ that’s been missing from the Avengers a group of people who really should inspire that kind of reaction from the seasoned villain. Remember when they did stuff like this? Storm a villain’s headquarters and bust heads until they got what they needed? Rescue friends and comrades despite the circumstances and … well, avenge things? Jumping into adventure with a plan and the determination to see it through?
This is Marvel’s JLA but I like to think that they’d be even worse in the minds of villainy. DC’s Justice League is so powerful they hold themselves in a certain degree of check. They have to considering just how powerful those characters are; if they didn’t… well, they’d be the Authority. The Avengers (at least, the Avengers of old) weren’t exactly able to leap tall buildings in a single bound and had a little more of that human tenacity. And when there’s more at stake, more danger involved, things get a little more dangerous.
Now, as you can see the guard does explain it is just two Avengers but for a moment just one slim moment, I like to think that Doctor Faustus peed his pants. Just a little.