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Marvel announced a new Captain America series coming from J. Michael Straczynski later this year. Stracyznski, alongside artist Jesus Saiz, is taking Steve Rogers on a whirlwind of an adventure. The new series lands just a few months after the milestone 750th issue of the Captain America series. It will help usher in a new era for the Stars and Stripes Avenger as the Cold War storyline wraps up. This time the past, present, and future all collide around the Star-Spangled hero.
A New Era For Captain America
Fresh off the heels of the Cold War event, Steve Rogers is taking no time off. Writer and filmmaker J. Michael Straczynski makes his triumphant return to Marvel Comics this September for a Captain reboot series. While we still have to wait a few months to see what Straczynski has planned for Rogers, Marvel did tease the upcoming series:
“Decades ago, Steve Rogers changed the world forever. Now powerful and insidious forces are assembling to ensure he never does it again. Past, present and future collide as the man out of time reckons with an existential threat determined to set the world on a darker path at any cost…”
Catching Up With Stracyznski
In an exclusive chat with io9, Stracyznski shared his plans for the upcoming series:
“Overall, the goal is to do some really challenging stories, some really fun stories, and get inside Steve’s head to see who he really is in ways that may not have been fully explored before. If folks like what I did with Peter in Amazing Spider-Man, and Thor in, well… Thor, then they should give this a shot, because I’m really swinging for the bleachers in this one!”
He also revealed that the series will focus on a time in Rogers’ life that isn’t explored too much in the comics. Of course, that is the time between his parents’ death and when he became Captain America. During that interim, Steve Rogers is just a sickly 17-year-old trying to survive. So, readers will get a juxtaposition in this new series between the hero of the present-day and the skinny kid from Brooklyn of the past.
Coincidentally, the same years a young Rogers was on his own is the same years that the American Bund was gaining traction. This alternate name for the Nazi Party living in America was growing very powerful in New York. Public marches and rallies infiltrated Madison Square Garden. It was a tumultuous time in American history and one that is sure to have a lasting impact on a 17-year-old kid looking for justice in the world.
Captain America #1 goes on sale on September 20.