@KitZ.Fox @BESW did you see this article which explains why Captain America is Hydra now? If that is the real reason, it's awesome.

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 That's an interesting perspective. I hope it's wrong, though--unless they pull something like a Jack Monroe.

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 yeah, ok. I can get behind that.

Whoa. That's weird timing.

(And I don't just mean Steve Rogers; Red, White & Black is a great example of that.)

However, I'd giggle like a schoolgirl if they're doing a Jack Monroe again.

I don't know what that means. Can you give a brief summary?

After WWII, the comics struggled to use Captain America outside his originating wartime context; he became a paranoid Communist-hunting zealot.

The writers realised this wasn't working and retired the character, then later revealed that version of Cap had been a disturbed man named Jack Monroe.

Haha. Ok. That'd be funny.

It was about the most graceful workaround they could've gotten, and framed the Red Scare paranoia exactly as it should have been: something presented as wholesomely American but actually poisonous to American values.

I'd be disappointed if they were just re-hashing a decades-old plot arc with Hydra!Cap, but it would make a kind of sense.

(The Jack Monroe story is how Cap got encased in ice, actually: at first everyone thought Steve Rogers had survived WWII, but it turned out to be Jack because Rogers was a Capiscle. After Monroe was exposed, the Capsicle was found and thawed out.)

That most iconic "man out time" element of Steve Rogers was invented in the 60s as a response to the character's 1950s McCarthyism.