I’ve always been a fan of Sam Wilson.. even with his early ridiculous blaxploitation outfit. He when he finally got to wear the shield, he leveled up BIG TIME. I’ve read Rick Remender’s 2015 All New Captain America in limited series a dozen times and it’s still pretty awesome. Nick Spenser took Sam in the direction of a social justice warrior, keeping him fighting for the streets and pushing back against a more fascist agenda.. not as awesome but still cool.
And then Secret Empire dropped and the fact that Captain America was a agent of Hydra broke same and forced him to step down from the mantle. They tried to keep him relevant, pairing him with The Winter Soldier (synergy for the Disney+ show), but he seemed to lose his direction all together.
Well, it looks like Marvel it trying to get him back on track. With Sam Wilson taking up the Captain America mantle in the MCU, they’re putting the shield back on his back in the comics also. Tochi Onyebuchi and Collin Kelly are launching dual Captain America books this summer that will hopefully recaptures the magic of Nick Spenser’s dual Cap book runs.
Announced earlier today in an exclusive interview with Entertainment Weekly, 2022 will mark a new age of Captain America, one that will launch two Captain America ongoing titles. Writers Jackson Lanzing and Collin Kelly and Marvel Stormbreaker artist Carmen Carnero will tell the adventures of Steve Rogers in CAPTAIN AMERICA: SENTINEL OF LIBERTY while writer Tochi Onyebuchi and Marvel Stormbreaker artist R.B. Silva will see Sam Wilson soar as Captain America once again in CAPTAIN AMERICA: SYMBOL OF TRUTH. The journeys of both shield bearers will begin in April’s CAPTAIN AMERICA #0 where they will team up after an explosive attack by Arnim Zola. Fans can get a sneak peek at the action that awaits in a celebratory new video, featuring never-before-seen artwork.
“Issue #0 is effectively a conversation between Steve and Sam about what it means for both of them to be Captain America simultaneously,” Lanzing explained to Entertainment Weekly. “But that conversation isn’t had in a room sitting down over beers, that conversation is had while flying/holding onto the side of a massive rocket heading into the sky to obliterate all of mankind because Arnim Zola is back and he’s got a bad plan.”
“We’ve seen Sam Wilson deal with the legacy of Captain America and race in very inward terms with regards to America: What does it mean for America to accept a Black Captain America?” Onyebuchi says. “One of the things I’m teasing in my book is, what does it mean for the rest of the world to accept a Black Captain America? That’s another part of the equation. If Captain America is in many ways a mimesis of America, with all the good and bad pathologies, what does that mean for the way in which America interacts with the rest of the world?”
‘With our story, what we really wanted to start looking at was, how has America changed? What does it mean to be a patriot now?” Kelly added. “Cap can’t turn his back on America, neither of the Caps can, because the idea is good. The core is good and worth fighting for, but both need to wrestle with what that means in the year of our Lord 2022.”
On Sale 4/20
CAPTAIN AMERICA #0
Written by TOCHI ONYEBUCHI, COLLIN KELLY & JACKSON LANZING
Art by MATTIA DE IULIS
Steve Rogers Cover by ALEX ROSS
Sam Wilson Cover by ALEX ROSS
Wraparound Variant Cover by MARK BROOKS
On Sale May 2022
CAPTAIN AMERICA: SYMBOL OF TRUTH #1
Written by TOCHI ONYEBUCHI
Art and Cover by R.B. SILVA
On Sale June 2022
CAPTAIN AMERICA: SENTINEL OF LIBERTY #1
Written by COLLIN KELLY & JACKSON LANZING
Art and Cover by CARMEN CARNERO