Tag: HYDRA

The Once and Future Captain America: A Secret Empire Hypothesis

Travis

Let’s talk about the elephant in the room first. In Marvel’s House of Ideas anything goes these days our good guys act like bad guys and our bad guys are now good guys. Sure, it can be an interesting plot device to make what we consider good and virtuous, evil and rank, because it humanizes our heroes. Deep down inside all of us, although we want the good guys to be moral and virtuous, we also sadistically want to see them fall. Personally, I don’t like this kind of story.…

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Secret Empire #0 Hydra Cap’s Master Plan

Walt

Story by Nick Spencer Art by Daniel Acuña and Rod Reis Cover by Mark Brooks  Publisher Marvel According to Marvel the “Secret Empire” #0, is the last big event in comics for them for a while. It has all the action and surprises of a Marvel-wide event. Individual heroes and teams are challenged to the limit of their abilities and overcome by a masterminds plan to take over all they hold dear and control the governments of the world and defeat all opposition to their domination of the world. Every…

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Marvel Releases Trailer for Hydra Captain America

Walt

It seems that Marvel is gearing up for something big in Captain America: Steve Rogers, as a new trailer for the series highlights the recent developments of his secret Hydra alliance. Many fans are less than happy with the change in history of America’s greatest hero Captain America. His Hydra alliance will be his down fall with readers if the writers don’t resolve the villain action in the story arc, the patience of current readers may run out. Many people are wondering what useful purpose it serves for the Marvel…

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Nick Spencer Surprised “Captain America’s” Hydra Twist Is Controversial

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Appearing at Comic-Con International in San Diego, CBR had the opportunity to speak with “Captain America: Sam Wilson” and “Captain America: Steve Rogers” writer Nick Spencer about the reaction of his controversial run on the titles — where Steve Rogers was recently revealed as a secret Hydra operative due to a Cosmic Cube-induced twist — and what’s in store for his “Civil War II” tie-ins and beyond. Speaking with CBR’s Kiel Phegley, Spencer discussed the surprisingly kind response he got from fans at the convention — after receiving death threats…

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Captain America: Steve Rogers #4 Review

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SPOILER WARNING: This article contains spoilers for “Captain America: Steve Rogers” #4, which is in stores now. After setting up the new status quo in the first three issues of “Captain America: Steve Rogers,” the fourth issue in Nick Spencer’s HYDRA Cap story advances a number of storylines significantly and drops major clues about what’s coming up for the ongoing once the dust settles on “Civil War II.” We know that Red Skull and Kobik, a Cosmic Cube given form as a young girl, have altered Steve Rogers’ reality by…

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