For more than eighty years, the Marvel Universe has been terrorized by one of the most relentless villains of all time – the Red Skull. As Captain America’s original nemesis, the Red Skull has long been an indelible part of Marvel Comics, yet that same ever-present nature hasn’t exactly translated to other pieces of media. The Red Skull’s place in the likes of the Marvel Cinematic Universe is about as far from what fans are used to as it could be, and the latest run on Thunderbolts may have just proven that it is time for the comics to follow suit.Rather than dropping readers into any pulse-pounding action, Thunderbolts #3 (by Jackson Lanzing, Collin Kelly, Geraldo Borges, Arthur Hesli, Mahmud Asrar, Jay Bowen, and VC’s Joe Sabino) opens to John Walker, better known as the U.S. Agent, sitting in a bar in Hong Kong while waiting for his next mission to start. Unfortunately for him, said mission is a carefully calculated ploy by none other than the Red Skull to manipulate Walker and his partner, Todd Ziller, aka the American Kaiju, into wreaking havoc overseas. While Walker initially rebuffs this claim, he changes his mind once Ziller loses control of his powers and transformations due to the Red Skull’s unseen influence. As surprising as this is to Walker because the Red Skull is dead, it really shouldn’t be, especially considering death has never kept the villain from coming back previously.In the years that followed, Johann was fashioned into the Red Skull, answering only to Hitler himself and standing as the next evolution of the dictator’s plans for the rest of the world. Though the Red Skull had what seemed like all of Hitler’s admiration, that sense of respect only went one way, as the former grew increasingly disillusioned with the latter. By the time World War II was at its end and the defeat of the Axis powers was all but assured, the Red Skull attempted to launch one final attack on Captain America, whom he had come to despise more than any other. Like his Star-Spangled nemesis, the Red Skull would end up in suspended animation for decades before emerging into a world, unlike the one he had left behind, not to mention which had already replaced him as its foremost fascist supervillain.
For more than eighty years, the Marvel Universe has been terrorized by one of the most relentless villains of all time – the Red Skull. As Captain America’s original nemesis, the Red Skull has long been an indelible part of Marvel Comics, yet that same ever-present nature hasn’t exactly translated to other pieces of media. The Red Skull’s place in the likes of the Marvel Cinematic Universe is about as far from what fans are used to as it could be, and the latest run on Thunderbolts may have just proven that it is time for the comics to follow suit.
Rather than dropping readers into any pulse-pounding action, Thunderbolts #3 (by Jackson Lanzing, Collin Kelly, Geraldo Borges, Arthur Hesli, Mahmud Asrar, Jay Bowen, and VC’s Joe Sabino) opens to John Walker, better known as the U.S. Agent, sitting in a bar in Hong Kong while waiting for his next mission to start. Unfortunately for him, said mission is a carefully calculated ploy by none other than the Red Skull to manipulate Walker and his partner, Todd Ziller, aka the American Kaiju, into wreaking havoc overseas. While Walker initially rebuffs this claim, he changes his mind once Ziller loses control of his powers and transformations due to the Red Skull’s unseen influence. As surprising as this is to Walker because the Red Skull is dead, it really shouldn’t be, especially considering death has never kept the villain from coming back previously.
In the years that followed, Johann was fashioned into the Red Skull, answering only to Hitler himself and standing as the next evolution of the dictator’s plans for the rest of the world. Though the Red Skull had what seemed like all of Hitler’s admiration, that sense of respect only went one way, as the former grew increasingly disillusioned with the latter. By the time World War II was at its end and the defeat of the Axis powers was all but assured, the Red Skull attempted to launch one final attack on Captain America, whom he had come to despise more than any other. Like his Star-Spangled nemesis, the Red Skull would end up in suspended animation for decades before emerging into a world, unlike the one he had left behind, not to mention which had already replaced him as its foremost fascist supervillain.
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