Before Cap was an icon, he was a soldier. A genetically enhanced one, but a soldier nonetheless. This is what Brian Clevinger aims to address in his upcoming ongoing, Captain America: The Fighting Avenger. And who better to tell you about this ongoing than Clevinger himself?
Cap is a great character. It’s easy to paint him as a symbol of jingoism, but to do so requires that you to ignore his whole history. Cap is everything we should seek to be as citizens both of our nation and of the world. He embodies this ceaseless optimism about what America could be and what we ought to be as Americans. Who wouldn’t want to work with that?
Even when you do flashbacks to his World War II days, he already carries himself with the confidence and capability that comes with all his training and experience, but Steve Rogers was just a kid before he got the Super Soldier Serum. He’s the lone product of what was meant to be an expansive super soldier program to counter all the crazy projects the Axis had been getting up to. I don’t care how much training you get, a rookie is a rookie. He’s going to make some mistakes, have some doubts, and learn a lot.
Find out more at Marvel.com, and look for the first issue of The Fighting Avenger in January.
