Blasphemy.

There are lots of good Cap stories, and the films are tremendous.

(Hint: If Cap was so boring, nobody would care about this storyline.)

A mind control/brainwash story sounds most likely.

Skrulls, clones, impersonators, alt reality caps are also possible.

The double agent would be highly unlikely. Who in Hydra would trust cap?

The problem is this: you can't know that until you let it out in the wild. And so many things can change or alter along the way, that a bad idea becomes a good one or a good one becomes a bad one.

Hell, think of it this: "Green Lantern gets his powers from a power ring. Let's make there be a thousand of him!" Or: "What if there were a whole rainbow of power rings!"

The ideas sound a bit stupid, but there are many that consider stories revolving around the Corps or multiple Corps to be the best stories DC has put out in years.

Or to go with an example that I love: I was young when the clone saga was starting. I loved the cartoons and had my first run of reading comics, basically, when Ben Reilly became Spider-Man. I was an avid Spider-Man reader during the clone saga and quickly dropped it after Peter came back.

One man's trash is another man's treasure.

And like I said to Thrumble, let's say this arc ends and we can all look at it and go, "yeah, that was kind of stupid."

So what?

It's just 6 comics out of a few thousand. Life marches on.

He left a hair on Tony Stark's couch and was cloned and it didn't work out so well.

No, wait, that's too stupid to be done.

No, wait, they've already been that stupid. And it turned out SOOOOO well that time.

I don't disagree with these views. Numerous comics I liked have sucked, gotten better, sucked again, ad infinitum.

I do think Hydra Steve is a ####ty idea and intend to enjoy hating on it.

Dunno if that was the best move. You probably missed out on some cool stuff, True Believer.

I like to check in on fallen favorites from time to time to see if I like 'em again.

Gross.

Said the guy who obviously has never read a Captain America solo series

You know, I think if more people I dealt with had the honesty to go, "yeah, I'm just #####ing because I enjoy #####ing about it," without a sense of ego, I'd get along better with a lot of haters.

I'm giving you props, sir.

Props accepted!

Achievement unlocked!

I've stuck through some pretty bad story arcs in comics over the years. But once I reach a point where I'm annoyed enough with it to give up on it, I don't look back. I did the same thing with X-men titles during Grant Morrison's "secondary mutations" run. Haven't picked up an X-book since.

Usually, I end up filling that slot in my collecting with another book. More and more often, its been stuff from smaller publishers.

My first thought was William Burnside, AKA retconed Cap from the 50's (partnered with retconned Jack Monroe Bucky), AKA Grand Director. Looks just like Steve, superhuman Str/Dex/Con (yeah, lots of D&D, here).

He's a great candidate for an imposter bad guy that thinks just like Steve, because he kinda is.

There is a reason I didn't pick up the book besides the look of the new uniform and then finding this out Make Mine Not Marvel............ Thanks for ruining The Best Classic Marvel Hero.... I mean Cap Is American Ideals brought to life and he stands by his word and is the greatest leader in all of The Marvel Universe

In other news, The Joker is Bruce Wayne's twin brother and they have been secretly working together to rule Gotham, one as a criminal and the other as a vigilante. And Alfred is really their father, not Thomas Wayne. Hail Hydra.

Regarding #####ing, a recent encounter has me taking the following tack for the foreseeable future: "Yeah, I don't like this. No, I don't owe you an explanation. If you must have one, here: '::BLANK:: stole my bike.' Conversation over."

Who loves peeing all over 50 years of continuity more than Bryan Michael Bendis?

Nick Spencer, apparently.



If anyone is interested, here's an interview with the author. (If I wasn't supposed to post the link, I apologize and claim ignorance.)

http://www.thedailybeast.com/article...ervillain.html