We begin with a short retelling of Captain America’s
origin. That Steve Rogers wanted to fight Nazis.
That Steve was weak and scrawny but
then benefitted from the power of drugs and steroids to become Captain America.
That Captain America and Bucky fought in World War II.
That one day a Nazi missile “killed
Bucky” and hurled Steve into the icy waters of the North Atlantic. There Steve
would be left frozen until the Avengers found him.
We shift to “Ten years ago.” We see
Captain America battling…you guessed it, a group of white supremacists.
This group of white supremacists is
named the Republican Party. No wait, Waid did not go that far! This group of
white supremacists is named the Rampart. One of the Rampart soldiers comments
that Captain America is moving as fast as a “rocket sled.”
The Rampart claim to own Bouton
County now. Cap responds that the Rampart do not own the people of Bouton,
Nebraska. That the Rampart is trying to take over the local police station in
order to get national attention.
None of the Rampart soldiers
recognize Captain America. The citizens that Captain America is trying to
protect also do not recognize him.
There are a group of school children
on a field trip to the police station.
Captain America has all the kids and
teachers hide in a room. A teacher tells Steve that two kids are missing: Donna
and Jacob. Captain America finds the two kids hiding under a desk. We have a
black girl and a white boy cowering in fear. Captain America asks the girl if
she is Donna.
Captain America tells Donna that he
has something for her to do that is more important than her being scared.
Captain America says that he has a rule that they follow. Cap says that Donna
has to protect Jacob. Donna asks why? Cap responds “Because he’s smaller than
you.
Captain America then swings into
action. Captain America starts kicking ass on all of the Rampart thugs.
However, one Rampart soldier is about to shoot Cap in the back. Jacob tells
Donna to stay back.
Donna shrugs off Jacob the designated wuss and leaps out from under the desk.
Donna yells “NO!” and steps in between Captain America and the Rampart
soldier’s gun.
Luckily, Captain America blocks the
laser blast with his shield. Captain America tells Donna “I’m stronger. I
protect you. That’s the rule.”
Captain America then reaches up to
an America flag that is handling nearby.
Captain America tells Donna that she
did good. Captain America addresses the teachers and the children and tells
them “Your town is safe. I saw to it on my way here
Steve tells the teacher to go ask
her grandparents. Captain America then drives off on his motorcycle. We see Cap
drive past the Burlington town sign as he exits the town.
We cut to “ten years later.” We see
Steve on a motorcycle arriving back at the town sign for Burlington, Nebraska.
We see that the town sign has been changed and that the town as been renamed
Captain America, Nebraska. The sign has a Jack Kirby styled Captain America on
it.
Steve rides into the small town and
sees that their 10th Annual Captain America celebration is going on.Steve walks
around the celebration. People at the celebration compliment Steve for his
cosplay outfit. That he should win the contest that they are having.
Steve then goes to the hot dog stand
to get a couple of dogs. Steve asks how long this event has been going on.
The hot dog vender says that this
celebration started being held ever year after Captain America rescued a bunch
of kids from a white supremacist group. The town even voted to rename their
town “Captain America.” Steve asks that this happened right after Captain
America came out of ice.
The hot dog vender commented that
Steve much be an, “icer.” An icer is a person who believes the story that the
Avengers found Captain America frozen.
The hot dog vender continues that he
thinks once the government say how badass the Avengers were that they took a
modern guy and placed him in a Captain America suit and claimed that they found
the legend frozen in ice.
Suddenly, a little girl screams out,
“Mister, look out!” Steve wheels around with his fists up to do battle with the
physical threat that is a tiny little girl. The little girl says that she was
telling him to look out for her shield. The girl says that he caught her
shield. Steve looks down in his hand and notices that he has a shield in it.
Steve stammers “I…guess I did. Force
of habit…?
We then cut to the stage at the
Captain America celebration. Various citizens stand up on the stage and give a
little speech about Captain America and what he means to them personally. A
latino first responder named John Garcia takes the stage. John is a first
responder from Orlando. John talks about how he first met Captain America in
Tallahassee. The man saw Captain America running out of a burning building with
some civilians in his arm. Cap set down the civilian. John says that Captain
America was burned and hurting but he rant right back into the burning
building.
Next up is a small white boy. He
talks about a bully at school. Then someone showed the boy a video of Captain
America “busting up some super villain.
Captain America salutes the woman
and then hops on his motorcycle and rides off into the sunset.
We then get a three page back-up
story. We see a wimpy and weak Steve Rogers getting beat up. We see him being
told that he is too small to join the army. We see Steve getting the super
soldier serum. We see Steve Rogers as Captain America fighting in World War II.
We see Steve Rogers falling into the icy Atlantic ocean and getting frozen. We
see the original Avengers thawing Steve out from the ice. And then we end with
Captain America battling Hydra agents with the narrator saying that Steve is a
man out of time, but that he still fights for what is right because he will always
be Captain America. End of issue.
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