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Pimp My Cap?

Thursday, October 11th, 2007 at 9:39 pm by Jamie

Captain Chrome?

Like you didn’t know this was coming!

A new Captain America makes his debut in Captain America #34 which is solicited for January 2008. Looks like he stopped by Galpin Auto Sports to get a new coat of chrome before hitting the streets.

Although I really like Alex Ross’s redesign on the costume, one huge thing stands out. Captain’s got a gun. This is no Cap of mine! Steve never carried a gun, even when the Super Soldier serum was wearing off. Captain America would never take the easy way and it doesn’t get much easier than pulling a trigger.

I know, we’re not supposed to judge a character by his costume, but this gun thing does not bode well. No good can come from the spirit of America carrying a piece. I don’t care if this isn’t a kinder or gentler world. My Captain America would have found a better way. Even if it’s not Steve, my Captain would have found a better way.

Ignore the gun while you peep at these wonderful sketches by Alex Ross. Sometimes I feel his sketch work has more life to it than his finished pieces. I’d love to see Ross do an entire book in pencil.

Captain Chrome Sketches

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  • http://www.spacebooger.com Fred

    The old WW2 Cap often would have machine guns and flame throwers when battling the Nazis.

    Also, as I posted at my site, the pointy metal plate aimed at his crotch may cause problems when Cap bends down.

  • Archon Divinus

    I guess the gun means Bucky is the new cap.

  • Jami

    Ah, that’s true. WW2 Cap would be blazin’. But I still don’t like him with the gun. Non WW2 Cap didn’t have a use for them. Why would he need one now?

  • Charm City Shinobi

    Bucky would kill himself before he ever considered himself worthy of wearing the mantle. People are speculating Clint Barton but he already turned it down. I don’t know who’d have the guts to think themselves worthy.

  • Jack

    Captain America stood for, I believe, the ideals of America. Freedom. Courage. Dedication. Justice. Mercy. Somehow, I don’t think “Gun” when I think of these ideals. But I guess that’s what America is about these days. Convenience and instant gratification. It saddens me.

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  • http://www.greatwhitesnark.com Great White Snark

    The original (and the best) Captain America had a strict no-killing policy. It’s what separated him from being a primary-color-clad version of the Punisher.

    Is the new Cap operating sans-scruples, or is he just out to kneecap some b*tches?

  • Martin

    Read the current mini-series ‘Captain America: The Chosen’.

  • http://www.Critical-Hits.com/ Bartoneus

    Jack: “I don’t think “Gun” when I think of these ideals. But I guess that’s what America is about these days. Convenience and instant gratification. It saddens me.”

    You might have heard of a great piece of American history called the Second Amendment, but I suppose by “these days” you mean 1780′s – present. :P Also unless your focus and pleasure in life are derived from killing people, I am a little disturbed that to you a gun stands for “convenience and instant gratification”.

    That said, I think it’s a terrible idea for Cap to be wielding a gun, if for no other reason than it simply makes him less badass, which would be a shame.

  • Tugboat

    Jack, I find great instant gratification from a range of firearms, punching holes of various sizes in PAPER. Nothing wrong with a little fun at the range. Convenience is when a buglar breaks into your basement, causing the female art student who rents it to scream bloody murder, going downstairs with a 10 gauge Ithaca, vice waiting for the police to take 15 minutes to show. Mercy is letting him sit down on the lawn and wait the rest of the 15 minutes instead of finding out how hard it is to get blood off the wall. Might even be some justice in there somewhere.

    I love my guns. But Captain America is not a gun-wielding hero (post-WW2 :)

  • RaZor

    Concur. Cap w/ a gun is no Cap. May be just a ploy to make fans pay attention to what has happened to Cap, create a groundswell of longing for the original, and then about a year from now, surprise!! Steve didn’t really die or has been returned from the dead through XYZ circumstances that they made up to make it work. I really forsee Marvel pulling a Superman outta this somehow.

  • http://mikedoe.net/ Mike Doe

    LMAO at the Great White Snark: “Kneecap some b*tches.”

    Yeah, the piece doesn’t feel right. Whatever happened to just laying down a good old fashioned ass-whipping? Brass knuckles, yes. AK-47s, no.

  • direwolf

    Screw brass knuckles, I miss the old days when hurtling a 30 to 50 lb. disk of bulletproof metal into someones midsection didn’t result in their sudden and immediate loss of internal fortitude.

    Either way, I say the new guy’s a government clone and has no genitals, hence the use of the gun and no need to worry about a serious wardrobe malfunction every time he ties his boots.

  • http://www.comics2film.com/b/index.php?blog=11 Xenos

    Well, this isn’t much of a surprise. If anyone’s been actually reading Brubaker’s current run of Captain America, the last issue pretty much pointed to this.

    Tony found a type of will from Steve. From what was shown, it sounded like Bucky / Winder Soldier was Steve’s choice. Steve knew he might die in that Civil War, so he wrote down that he didn’t want Captain America to die and that America still needed one.

    FYI, Bucky’s alive and was trained by Russia to be their own super soldier. Yeah, it sounds dumb, but it’s written by Ed Brubaker who hit it out of the park. Or so I hear. I only started reading recent issues. I’m kicking myself that I didn’t follow Brubaker on the book and now I have to pick up the trades. (Meanwhile, over at DC, Judd Winick brought back Jason Todd. Ugh. Now that just ended up a huge mess.)

    Plus the last Punisher War Journal ended with Bucky getting Cap’s mask from the Punsiher. Castle picked it up in the aftermath of when Cap surrendered to Stark. Castle said he wasn’t right for it and gave it to Bucky.