Steve Rogers was recently robbed of his youth, vitality, and super strength. The super soldier serum has been removed from his body. Steve can no longer be Captain America in his newly found twilight years. He might not even be able to lift his iconic shield.
Steve is passing his shield off to his long time friend and hero partner, Sam Wilson. Sam is best known as the superhero Falcon. Cap and Falcon were a constant team back in the 70s. Sam becomes the first Black Captain America. This will happen in the All New Captain America #1.
Steve may be old but he isn’t dead. He will still be around to give Sam support in his new patriotic uniform. I envision Steve being Bruce Wayne from Batman Beyond but without the crusty attitude of Bruce.
Here is what editor Tom Brevoort has to say about the perspective that Sam will bring to the Red, White, and Blues.
He didn’t grow up in the 1930s, he’s a modern day man in touch with the problems of the 21st Century. For most of his professional life, Sam has worked as a social worker, so he’s seen the worst of urban society up close, and how crime, poverty, lack of social structure and opportunity can affect the community. So he’s got perhaps a greater focus on the plight of the common man, and perhaps a greater empathy for the underprivileged than maybe even Steve himself. He’s also not a military man, so he’s more apt to be instinctively skeptical of any situation that calls for just following orders. Sam, like Steve, will be led by his personal morality and beliefs as to what is right and what is wrong—and where his beliefs may differ in their shading from those of the previous Cap are where the interesting stories will be found.
Marvel is shaking things up for their mainline Avengers characters. We will have Sam as Captain America and a female Thor. It will make for some interesting reading. I know that is what Marvel was hoping for.
(Via Marvel.com)
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