Brubaker's Captain America: The List
The cast and related things from Brubaker's almost-a-decade epic. I'll add more as I read throught it- I'm only up to The Man Who Bought America.
The cast and related things from Brubaker's almost-a-decade epic. I'll add more as I read throught it- I'm only up to The Man Who Bought America.
Kind of goes without saying, doesn't it?
Cap's biggest enemy, and my favorite Marvel villain. Dude is evil incarnate.
Arguably the star of Bru's epic.
Funnily enough, the first thing we see in Bru's first issue is a Red Guardian. Not the right one, since we never learned who it was, but close enough.
The Red Skull's pathetic right hand man in Bru's run, and a spiritual successor to the endless hordes of commies Cap smashed back in the day.
The Winter Soldier arc hinges on this. It's one of my favorite depictions of the Cube too- shows little, but man, do you get a feel for it.
Before we even see vanilla AIM, we saw this splinter cell. Pretty interesting idea- completely circumvent the morality in AIM with a splinter dedicated to destruction.
Bru's run took this guy from an also-ran from the 90s and turned him into a definitive villain for Captain America.
Appears briefly in a flashback in issue 2, and in later flashbacks. All told, has a surprising number of appearances in Bru's work.
Pretty big throughout the whole thing, as far as I can tell.
Cap's fellow Steranko survivor is a big player in the parts prior to Civil War, and his cyber suited sucessor taking over.
First seen in a flashback. Pretty sure he gets important later. He was an Invader, after all.
The first Torch's sidekick, also seen in a flashback.
Appears in a coupla flashbacks, and is important in the Trial of Captain America. Can't have Bucky without name dropping him
This walking Vonnegut shoutout bites the dust early on, but lives on through her protegee of sorts, Sin.
Plays a minor role in issue 4. Fitting, considering he's the third Captain America, and the first replacement for Steve Rogers.
Same as the above, save him being the third replacement for Steve and the fourth overall.
The third Bucky, and the commie smashing Bucky of the 1950s, is featured in issue 7, a melancholy story of a man loosing his mind and then dying. Great issue. His specter looms hard over the book for a while afterwords.
Gets a small cameo in issue 7 as Jack's doctor. I dig stuff like that, man. Reminds you you're reading about a shared universe.
It's Kronos consolidating Roxxon that makes Lukin pretty much untouchable, since Kronos becomes the largest oil company in the western world. Again, nice use of the greater Marvel Universe.
Can't have Cap without his friend from the Englehart days. Probably Cap's best known and best liked modern sidekick.
Cap and Tony have been bros since they shared Tales of Suspense, and this series is no different.
Rescued from relative obscurity, Sin became one of the biggest villains in the Marvel Universe thanks to this series. And what a villain- she starts out as Charles Starkweather on speed. It's fun in a deviant kinda way.
Yup, the beekepers of death eventually appear in a pretty fun short arc where they basically have to ask Cap for help. I'm pretty sure this makes it canon they are incompetent.
Appears in flashback in the 65th Anniversary Special as a member of the Howling Commandos. There's this one panel of him parachuting in and holding on to his hat with one hand. I find it way too funny.
Plays a part in the Skull's elaborate as hell plan. Notably, he had a mini written around the time of his 65th Anniversary Special appearance written by Bru.
A sort of ancient prototype was built by Dr. Doom way in the past. Pretty cool, clever use of the Sleeper concept.
Cameos early on and is important during the 21st Century Blitzkrieg arc. Generally a pretty cool dude.
Appears alongside her former beau Union Jack in the Blitz arc. Doesn't get a lot of screen time, comparitively, but it's nice to see a former Invader get used.
Plays a minor role in a flashback, but gets more important later in the Blitz arc as a new skinhead Master Man is intro'd.