CBR: CCI: Waid Takes Captain America "Out of Time"

[CBR News]

In "Captain America: Man Out of Time," Mark Waid expands and updates the story of Cap's reawakening so that it now occurs in modern times. We spoke with Waid about the project. which kicks off in November.


Full article here.

[Pereisen]

Mark Waid's 90's Cap was the first comic I ever read and it sucked me in. This looks great.

[Sighphi]

Isn't this what's happening now in the re-telling of the Avengers origins?
They had flat screen TV's all over the place.

Well, i guess this will be focused on Cap but the concept is still blah.

[JeffCram]

Sign me up.

Waid writing Steve again? That's all I needed to hear.

Not the most inspired of stories to go with, but just having Mark touch on the character again will be worth the ride, IMO.

[Umbra]

This looks great. Can't wait.

[hugosleestak]

Waid usually doesn't disappoint, but when asked about what differences Steve will see in his country after awakening in the recent past (I'm guessing circa 2000), Waid mentions racial and sexual equality as things that Cap will be happy about, and all of the "anger" in America as something that will bother him.

Those are pretty simplistic statements, and I'm sure that Waid knows this. He's just summing things up. To be honest, Steve Rogers grew up in terribly angry, violent times. We tend to forget that. The Depression was not nice.

What Steve sees when he wakes up is a different, more nuanced kind of racism. Yes, he'll get weepy-eyed watching old films of Martin Luther King, Jr., but he'll also be enraged by the conditions of kids growing up without hope in the inner city.

He'll see a sexual revolution that had just as many casualties as it did victors. He'll find an America just as angry as the America he grew up in, and often about the same things, because human needs and desires don't really change that much.

I'm hoping that in portraying Steve as a man out of time, that Waid will remember that Steve is a product of his generation - just like that 90 year old you might know down the street who still talks about "Japs" and "Krauts." Yeah, we have a few things to teach him too.

[Dog]

So, is this meant to canonically replace the original un-freezing?

[BeastieRunner]

If I want a modernized cap origin, I'll read the Ultimates.

[oneasian]

Didn't you guys get the memo? 2011 is Cap and Thor Year! We'll see at least 8 new series per character and don't forget about Appreciation Variants (a la Deadpool, Wolverine, Iron Man) for every book!


This series by Mark Waid however, I will definitely be buying! I too became a Cap fan from his first run in the 90s

[T.O.M.]

Hmm, I'm having mixed emotions and thoughts on this one.
Sure this was going to happen sooner or later I guess. But is it really necessary?
I mean it's only because of the movie this is really happening., And Waid is a stellar talent, who's Cap comics in the 90's brought me back to Cap.
After being away for years.
The art looks interesting.
Wait and see.

[Hindsight lad]

While I don't know that this was miniseries was strictly necessary, I think it's a great idea, and I think Waid is the perfect person to write it.

That said, I hope he might include some of the great moments Joe Casey included in his Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes. Cap saluting JFK's eternal flame. Cap at the Vietnam Veteran's Memorial. "Rick, we aren't leaving until I've read the name of every person who died in a war I missed."

I also like that Waid won't have Cap being flumoxed by technology. While tech has vastly improved in the last 60 years, Cap was privy to a lot of top secret stuff and is one of the smartest guys on the planet, so he should be able to pick things up quickly.

Hindsight lad

[Vic Vega]

Waid usually doesn't disappoint, but when asked about what differences Steve will see in his country after awakening in the recent past (I'm guessing circa 2000), Waid mentions racial and sexual equality as things that Cap will be happy about, and all of the "anger" in America as something that will bother him.

Those are pretty simplistic statements, and I'm sure that Waid knows this. He's just summing things up. To be honest, Steve Rogers grew up in terribly angry, violent times. We tend to forget that. The Depression was not nice.

What Steve sees when he wakes up is a different, more nuanced kind of racism. Yes, he'll get weepy-eyed watching old films of Martin Luther King, Jr., but he'll also be enraged by the conditions of kids growing up without hope in the inner city.

He'll see a sexual revolution that had just as many casualties as it did victors. He'll find an America just as angry as the America he grew up in, and often about the same things, because human needs and desires don't really change that much.

I'm hoping that in portraying Steve as a man out of time, that Waid will remember that Steve is a product of his generation - just like that 90 year old you might know down the street who still talks about "Japs" and "Krauts." Yeah, we have a few things to teach him too.

To a time traveler (which is what in effect Steve is) who lived thru the internment camps and Jim Crow, the modern era would look pretty good.

At first.

I think he'd adapt pretty quickly as he'd of seen demogogery and social protesting even in his own time (Father Couglin and the Bonus Army respectively).

[OMAR]

The time of Cap's original return, the '60s, was a time of great promise for the future. If he were to return now, he would surely be sickened by how our culture has become degraded and perverted. By worshiping the false idols of "diversity" and "tolerance" and turning our back on any kind of consensus morality we did far more damage to America than Cap's WW2 enemies ever could have. I hope the cover of the final issue features Cap punching a certain someone right in the face - and he wouldn't have to travel overseas to do it!