J. Michael Straczynski to helm new CAPTAIN AMERICA ongoing series

J. Michael Straczynski is greatest recognized to Marvel followers for iconic (and infrequently controversial) runs on titles like The Amazing Spider-Man and Thor. Now the author has his sights set on Marvel’s star-spangled avenger, because the writer has introduced that Straczynski and artist Jesús Saiz will launch a new Captain America ongoing series later this 12 months.

Here’s how Marvel describes Straczynski and Saiz’s forthcoming Cap run:

Decades in the past, Steve Rogers modified the world perpetually. Now highly effective and insidious forces are assembling to guarantee he by no means does it once more. Past, current and future collide as the person out of time reckons with an existential risk decided to set the world on a darker path at any price…

The new series can be Straczynski’s first solo go at Captain America, although the author has brushed up towards the character prior to now with tie-ins to 2005’s Civil War storyline in Amazing Spider-Man and Fantastic Four. For artist Saiz, it’s a return to the character following his run on the series with author Nick Spencer in 2016-2017. The artist has since labored on books together with Doctor Strange (with Mark Waid) and The Punisher (with Jason Aaron).

In an interview with io9 saying the run, Straczynski described delving right into a interval of Steve Rogers’s life that’s been largely unexplored: his pre-WWII youth.

“One factor about Steve Rogers that’s by no means actually been addressed is the interval between when his dad and mom died, and when he turned Captain America. We’re speaking a couple of sickly, skinny 17 12 months previous child, attempting to survive on his personal for as a result of he’s cussed and unbiased, on the road for a number of years, hustling for any gig he can get, even when it’s larger than he’s, attempting to afford meals and a spot to keep. So we are going to counterpoint a present-tense story wherein Captain America faces off towards a new villain of supernatural origin, with a narrative about his youthful self, with each tales tightly interwoven.

“Because there’s one different, key side to that interval that we’ll be addressing. The years younger Steve was on his personal have been the identical years throughout which the American Bund – for all intents and functions the Nazi Party in America – was rising very highly effective in actual world New York, blocks from the place he lived. They held public marches and rallies, harassed folks, and unfold hate, all a part of an effort to get America on the facet of the Nazis, a marketing campaign that got here to a head with the most important Nazi rally on American soil in historical past, as tens of 1000’s of individuals, Nazis and Nazi sympathizers, crammed into Madison Square Garden to have fun their dream of a thousand-year Reich.

“We are going to put young Steve right into the middle of that real-life vortex, where despite terrible odds he will make a crucial difference at an even more crucial moment. For a young Peter Parker, the murder of his uncle Ben was a transformational event putting him on the path to becoming Spider-Man. This story will be equally transformational, putting a young Steve Rogers on the path to being the hero he eventually becomes.”

At a time within the United States when white nationalism has change into maybe extra mainstream than it’s ever been, the storyline Straczynski has in thoughts for the series sounds extremely well timed. Look for Straczynski & Saiz’s Captain America #1 to arrive in shops and digitally on Wednesday, September twentieth.

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