Thunderbolts #1: Power & Control!

05.13.2016 – There’s a new Thunderbolts and the team is led by Bucky Barnes AKA The Winter Soldier. Like the original concept the series is formed by a team of super villains who where brainwashed to do good, but this new series takes off from Avengers: Standoff which all them are not controlled by any entity. It’s written by Jim Zub and with art Jon Malin, who has stylish 1990s vibe going through the pages of this latest incarnation of “Thunderbolts” which was previously composed of another team led by General Thaddeus Ross or known as the Red Hulk. But this new team goes back to the basics how they where known and this time they’re not controlled by any agency or cabal group vent on world domination. Bucky gets to become a team leader for a group of villains who are not mind controlled or brainwash, which adds the dynamics or drama in the narrative on how Jim Zub navigate these characters on how they coexist. The roster have Atlas, Mach-X, The Fixer, Moonstone and Kobik, a reality warping energy from a cosmic cube made to manifest in the form of a 4-year-old girl rounding up the team.

Marvel Legends: 'Heroic Age' Captain America!

04.10.2014 – Captain America: The Winter Soldier is breaking its own box office record and the merchandise is flying off the shelves. The latest action figures that has ‘Marvel Legends’ stamped on it might have been sold out. The secondary market might have been selling them briskly there. But if you’re more of going back to the previous figures that you haven’t seen or heard about for a newbie, the previous line of Legends figures might find you wanting to pick up one or two.

Mystery Behind The Winter Soldier!

03.18.2014 – Captain America an iconic character and the first Marvel hero to appear in the comic books has a fair share of history. Steve Rogers won’t be the star spangled hero without his supporting cast and Bucky Barnes is the closest he had as a sidekick. When Bucky perished during WWII when he tried to disarm a bomb, but failed to do so that cost his life. In the cinematic film he plunged to his death trying to help Captain America in his mission. The comic book character was dead for a long time until 2005.

Steve Rogers returns as Captain America this July!

With the new movie coming out this July 22, it was only a matter of time until this happened (again)!

Announced by Marvel Comics and reported by the likes of Newsarama and The New York Daily News, Steve Rogers will once again don the stars and stripes uniform and take up the shield, as he once again becomes Captain America in the new Captain America #1 comic coming out this July, taking the reigns away from his partner Bucky Barnes, who is the current Cap at this point of time. Longtime scribe of the series Ed Brubaker will still retain his position as the writer of the new relaunched title, with Civil War illustrator Steve McNiven joining him for art duties! That's right, Cap's getting a reboot and going back to #1 on the serial lists, just in time for the movie and for new readers to catch up on.

The news comes as both amusing and disappointing to hear about. It's great to have Steve Rogers back in the uniform and all, but I've taken to and respected Bucky Barnes run as Cap for the duration of Brubaker's run on the title. Ever since he "killed off" Rogers in the aftermath of Civil War and placed his onetime WWII partner on the costume, he's done great things with the character and did wonders showing that he certainly can wield the shield if push comes to shove. On the other hand, nothing will replace Steve Rogers - He's the one true Cap and there's no denying that the role was tailor made for him since he became the one and only Super Soldier to exist. It was fun seeing the role passed and poked around, but ever since Steve returned (and in a rushed and underdeveloped "Captain America: Reborn" storyline I might add), it already foreshadowed the inevitable happening - that he's going to be Captain America again sooner or later. We saw two Caps fighting together during the events of Siege, but Rogers willingly dropped the responsibility to Bucky so he could give his friend a new sense of purpose and direction, while taking up the mantle as the new "Top Cop/ Nick Fury" of the Marvel Universe. So much has come to pass in the Captain America stories since ED Brubaker took over, and I've stuck around the title since the writer made the jump to it way back in November 2004. It's fitting that he gets to relaunch it again in time for the new flick... but will I stick around and still collect it? Only time will tell for sure. The prospect of having Steve McNiven as artist only adds fuel to the fire. We'll just have to wait and see come July... which also has Chris Evans taking up the mantle in the big screen adaptation flick - Captain America: The First Avenger!

For more details and the official press release, visit Marvel.com, Newsarama, and The New York Daily News!

Captain America #1 is due in comic shops this July at $3.99!

*Originally posted by Timzster in The Crusader's Realm