Ive always loved the Viper and similar Madame Hydra characters, and this realization by Yaya Han is truly awesome (and, as ever, hawt). I bought a bunch of comics in my pre-teen years (I have a vivid memory of them sitting in one big stack in a brown paper grocery bag in my closet) but they vanished at some point. When I started collecting again, in 1983, three of the first comics I bought were Captain America 281-283. The three-issue story arc featured the return of Bucky: not Bucky Barnes, but Jack Monroe, one of the replacement Buckys that briefly appeared alongside a replacement Cap during his years frozen in ice. Rehabilitated (he and the not-Cap Cap had gone a bit mental), he shows up on Steve Rogers doorstep and asks for help, having nowhere to go after being released from whatever psychiatric facility to which hed been committed. Meanwhile, Viper is engaged in her favorite hobby, messing with Spider-Womans mind. She then captures Cap (with the help of D-lister Constrictor), to use and abuse him in her grand scheme, which isnt made plain until the third issue. Jack grabs one of Steves old uniforms - Nomad, which Cap had used once when he stopped being Cap - and goes to the rescue. So the final issue, and Vipers grand plan (assisted by Silver Samurai) is truly awesome: she places an unconscious Cap in a hot-air balloon, and sets it off along with a ton of other hot-air balloons at some state fair in middle America. Once the balloons reach a desired height, theyll release a deadly poisonous gas that will spread throughout America, killing everyone. Needless to say, Cap and Nomad save the day, and Viper and Silver Samurai flee to wreak mayhem another day. Epic.
Posted on: Wed, 16 Apr 2014 06:11:41 +0000
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