The Marvels Project #2

[edhopper]

Really? No thread on this. This is a very good book by the Cap team of Brubaker and Epting and no one is talking about it.:confused: :eek:
If you are not reading this series, you should.
Issue #2 continued the strong story and art started in issue #1.

[edhopper]

So I'm like the only one on CBR that is reading this?

[James Conniff]

Really? No thread on this. This is a very good book by the Cap team of Brubaker and Epting and no one is talking about it.:confused: :eek:
If you are not reading this series, you should.
Issue #2 continued the strong story and art started in issue #1.
I was wondering the same thing. I am a huge fan of Bru and Eptings work, especially together. I don't think that there's a better writer or artist in the industry to tell the origin story of the Marvel Universe.
As cheesy a line as it may sound when Joe Q says It, i feel connected to this place in a special way as a fan. I read a few DC books because the teams on them are good, or following a writer I enjoy. But I read some marvel books just to know what is going on in the universe, and read most because I love the characters and want to see what happens in this fictional world that I've become so invested in. The Marvels project is telling an intriguing story featuring Golden Age characters, but is showing how this place came to be, and rewards fans with little details. The narrator Angel in his Civilian id going to see newsreels about the war in Europe was a great way to bring to the fore front what the public was thinking in the early years of the war, and having him sitting next to a blond young man who looked particularly pissed off by footage of Nazi soldiers marching across Europe was just the icing on the cake.

[rbcsecruoser]

Even though I dropped Reborn after the first issue I picked this up because of the preview, and I'll keep buying it :)

[The Confessor]

Loved this issue...maybe not quite as strong or as compelling as the first issue but definitely another good installment of the story. I have a question though, who was the guy in the tank (referred to as Private John Steele) that we saw the two Nazi scientists talking about, just prior to Erskine's defection to the west? I'm assuming he is a well known superhero.

[rbcsecruoser]

He's a Golden Age hero from back when Marvel was Timely...
:biggrin:
http://media.comicvine.com/uploads/1/11352/545623-steele_super.jpg
http://www.comicvine.com/john-steele/29-57571/

[Jimmy Holograph]

Loved this issue...maybe not quite as strong or as compelling as the first issue but definitely another good installment of the story. I have a question though, who was the guy in the tank (referred to as Private John Steele) that we saw the two Nazi scientists talking about, just prior to Erskine's defection to the west? I'm assuming he is a well known superhero.

John Steele was a Soldier of Fortune that appeared in the first issue of Daring Mystery Comics by Timely (the same comic where The Fiery Mask debuted if I'm not mistaken). The revelation that he was a "super soldier", and the blueprint from which the Germans were trying to replicate seems to be a Brubaker retcon, one which I am very interested in seeing explored further.

This issue was fantastic, Brubaker's story is full of intrigue and I think Epting is doing his career best work on this series so far.

[The Sword Is Drawn]

Annoyingly, after getting #1 a week early, my LCS didn't get any copies of #2 in last week. I've had to order a copy of eBay. Not arrived yet.

[Lupek]

This is quickly shaping up to be an all time classic. I loved it.

[LordEd1976]

John Steele was a Soldier of Fortune that appeared in the first issue of Daring Mystery Comics by Timely (the same comic where The Fiery Mask debuted if I'm not mistaken). The revelation that he was a "super soldier", and the blueprint from which the Germans were trying to replicate seems to be a Brubaker retcon, one which I am very interested in seeing explored further.

So how much time does he get? Anything else happen besides him floating in a tank?

[vitruvian]

John Steele was a Soldier of Fortune that appeared in the first issue of Daring Mystery Comics by Timely (the same comic where The Fiery Mask debuted if I'm not mistaken). The revelation that he was a "super soldier", and the blueprint from which the Germans were trying to replicate seems to be a Brubaker retcon, one which I am very interested in seeing explored further.

This issue was fantastic, Brubaker's story is full of intrigue and I think Epting is doing his career best work on this series so far.

Definitely a retcon, considering that his Timely exploits were during WWII, while the John Steele in MP #2 is referenced as being captured during the last war, presumably WWI.

There was also a real Private John Steele in WWII who was a paratrooper famous for landing wounded behind enemy lines and making his way back to his command alive. Don't think he was bulletproof, though...

[Jimmy Holograph]

Definitely a retcon, considering that his Timely exploits were during WWII, while the John Steele in MP #2 is referenced as being captured during the last war, presumably WWI.

There was also a real Private John Steele in WWII who was a paratrooper famous for landing wounded behind enemy lines and making his way back to his command alive. Don't think he was bulletproof, though...

I was going to reference the real John Steele as well, who was a respected WWII hero who received a Purple Heart, and escaped from Nazi capture, but the Timely character seemingly predates the exploits of the real John Steele, so the name is purely coincidental. I wouldn't be surprised if Brubaker melded them into one character though given how he has integrated real people from the time period into the story so far.