Captain America: The Fighting Avenger
Last Updated on Thursday, 15 July 2010 07:30 Written by Brian! Thursday, 15 July 2010 07:30
Thought you guys might be into this.
Marvel’s got me writing an on-going title with Captain America, World War 2, and fun, accessible, adventures. The first issue is scheduled to hit in January 2011. Hope to see you guys there!
You can read a little more about the project and what our overall goals are here, here, and here!
It’s very exciting and incredibly terrifying.
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Pulled! Called my LCS just now, “There's a new Captain America book? Okay … I don't see it yet …”
I'm thinking if anyone can do Captain America justice in this day and age without de-balling him or totally revising history, it'll be the guy who writes Atomic Robo. The way you approach history with Robo is that perfect blend of true and what-if. Cap's in good hands.
Well, it's not coming out until January 2011. It'll be months before we even solicit the darn thing! Don't worry though, I'll be sure to remind everyone when it's time.
I certainly hope you're right!
Did Marvel specifically cite Dogs of War as the reason for giving you the reigns of the book? Either way, congratulations… just don't get so enamored with the big Marvel bucks that Robo goes on the back-burner.
More or less, yes. Everything I've done for Marvel has come from Robo and I've been encouraged to approach my Marvel work “like Robo” as much as I'm able.
Robo will never be on the back burner. Marvel properties are easier and in some ways more fun to work on, but Robo is the more satisfying job overall. I'm compelled to come up with stories in that world.
disclaimer: this question may have been answered in one of the articles but i'm lazy and didn't read them.
the image that they put with the articles has cap in a very different costume. is this the costume he'll be using in the comic, and if so why the change?
i'd also like the say if there's one piece of bad news to come out of this announcement it's that gurihiru will probably no longer be drawing power pack. that's too bad.
on a completely unrelated note, it was cool to see robo getting some love on CBR with that time travel article. yay robo.
I am so excited by this. I loved the way that you used World War II in Dogs of War, from the skillful use of history to the respectful and deeply human portrayal of the battlefield. Things like a background soldier dying from machine gun fire or a Nazi gaining sympathy with his dying breath added an understated yet effective pathos to the proceedings…and even with all that, there were still exciting adventures and action scenes and snappy one-liners.
Glad to hear it! It was very important to Scott and I to retain the essential humanity of the average soldier regardless of his affiliation. It's my plan to take a similar approach with this project. My one concern that it's a more “comic booky” setting, but I should be able to fix all the big evil insanity on specific super villain characters without painting entire nationalities with the same strokes.
We're going with a new and different costume because it's a new and different approach to Captain America. The costume you see in the promotional art is 100% the one we'll be using in this comic, but it's much closer to what we'll use than the typical Cap outfit.
Nate Cosby is a Robo fanboy, isn't he?
Hopefully they aren't going to go to print on a WWII story using a cover that has an American flag with 50 stars…Alaska and Hawaii didn't join up until '58-'59….
http://marvel.com/images/783126./from/content.s...
That's funny you're writing a Captain America series, Cap was the first thing I thought of when I read the first issue of Robo. One of the reason I read Robo instead of Cap (other than the Big Two's convulted and unfollowable business model) is because I always considered Robo to be the time traveler Cap will never be. He is in WW2 and cold war and space race and beyond that and before that and everything in between that… It always bothered me that Cap always get frozen in carbonite at the end of WW2 and get fast forwarded to present day, missing on a whole lot of interesting era, conflicts and story possibilities IMO.
Robo does have a lot of the qualities I associate with Cap too, and the added bonus of being able to live through the entire 20th century. Boy, that Tesla was smart!
Plus, I love that you said Cap got frozen in carbonite.
Oops. I didn't mean to like my own post. Not that I don't, I just didn't mean to… oh, nevermind.