THE FOUR VIRTUES: “CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE CHOSEN”
by: Lufguy 1 year, 3 months, 2 weeks, 5 days, 3 hours, 7 minutes ago 2
Email Article Print ArticleA new story of Cap and it seems to fit right in with the times.
by Dave Richards at comicbookresources.com.
In February of this year, one of the Marvel Comics’ greatest heroes, Captain America was slain, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t more tales left to be told of the Sentinel of Liberty. Beginning this September, writer David Morrell and artist Mitch Breitweiser will give readers a brand new Captain America story with the six issue “Captain America: The Chosen” miniseries. ...
In Morrell’s story, one of Captain America’s lines of dialogue sums up what the writer feels are the Sentinel of Liberty’s defining personality traits. “There is a mantra that Captain America keeps repeating to a Marine Corps corporal, whom he’s kind of mentoring. The mantra is the four military virtues, which are courage, honor, loyalty and sacrifice. If you think about it, those should not be just military virtues. Those should be the code by which everyone conducts the way they live. That’s why I felt so compatible with Captain America because courage, honor, loyalty and sacrifice are themes that I use a lot in my books. ...
I am looking forward to seeing this one. If you click on the link, you will also find some of the Covers and a few pages of the comics. There is also a great deal of background on how the story came to be written and the fact it was written BEFORE the death of CAP in that now, in my opinion, infamous edition.
If you are a fan of Captain America, I think you will want to see this one.
as posted on Marvel’s site…
“In his first comic book writing effort, Morrell will bring his action writing talent to Captain America, in the story of a young Marine, Corporal James Newman, who is on his tour of duty in Afghanistan. In the midst of a brutal fire fight with enemy forces, Captain America leads him out of the battle while helping him rescue his wounded comrades who are trapped by enemy fire. When the smoke clears, Newman is unsure if Captain America was really there, or a hallucination in the stress of battle.”
I’m expecting this to be a really solid book.