Greetings fellow comic fans! Got the new laptop and I am amble to be creative again! Yes! And since its a Sunday and I have read all of last week's books, this time I will take a selection at random and give it a re-read and share my thoughts. Looking through the boxes...and boxes, of books I can't really narrow it down to one to choose from...
There are so many different things and kinds of books to select from. From the Charles Schultz Archives to the Walking Dead Omnibus to complete runs or X-Men or Thor or Fantastic Four to name a few. What's really amazing is there are so many stories that I can recall from memory after having read them several if not dozens of years ago. As I look through the stacks and rows of boxes its extremely difficult to decide on which box to choose from or which collected edition to possibly grab a story from. So I finally decided on something from my elementary school years....
I decided on Captain America and the Falcon #179! When I pulled this out of the box I was taken right back to Emerson Elementary school. I saw the cover and remember the focus of the story. As you can see from the cover, Cap is being challenged by the Golden Archer while in his civilian identity as Steve Rogers. In the story Steve Rogers has been feeling disillusioned in his role as Captain America, and in issue #176 he gave up the identity of Captain America. So while he is figuring out what his next move is, he's out with his ladyfriend Sharon Carter and they're attacked by an arrow firing man calling himself "The Golden Archer", after he and Cap/Steve went a few rounds and the Archer escaped, we are next taken to Cap's partner the Falcon, where he is letting some local crime-lord know that he was not welcome in the city and if things kept up they would come to an understanding of a physical nature. And from there we are taken to a gang of Motorcycle hoods and one decides that he was going to be Captain America since the news had broken that no one was doing it. The leader of the gang heard this and decided that HE was going to be the next Cap, and quickly punched the other guy out. And from there we go to Avengers Mansion where the Falcon is training their friend "Roscoe", and Cap shows up to just hang out and all of a sudden outside there is The Golden Archer again! They get into it, but before Cap can finish him off, the Archer gets away. Curses! Next we see the "new" Captain America (the Motorcycle hood), take on six tough street punks, who of course beat him into a stain. The funny thing is, when after taking that beatdown he said "If I woulda had my crowbar..." before fading into unconsciousness or coma...And the last portion of the book we see the real Cap walking back to his place and once a gain gets jumped on by The Golden Archer, but this time Cap was able to get his bow away from him, but the Archer wasn't done yet! He began to throw arrows at Cap! Yeah, that didn't work. So Cap gets him down and is about to put him away when, the Archer loses his accent and takes off his mask to reveal himself as...Hawkeye! Cap's buddy and fellow Avenger. CAp asked essentially "Dude? What the hell...?" Hawkeye explained to Cap that he was trying to show him that he should still be a Superhero, he doesn't have to be Captain America, but he should stay in the business. And from there the book ends leaving us to ponder for issue #180, "What does Cap do?"
I love going back and-re-reading the old stories, some hold up, and some don't, and some make me ask myself just what the hell was I thinking when I bought a few of these books. There are some duds in the collection, everything can't be "Watchmen"...but this was a fun read going back to the old newsprint paper, the old letters column called "Let's rap with Cap". It was a lot of fun, next time I'll go back to selecting the standout book form my week's list of books and give you the lowdown. So be looking for me this Wednesday!
Comics NEVER get old!
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