Secret Empire has a terrible legacy. The event’s build-up kicked off in earnest with Steve Rogers: Captain America, a book that launched back in May 2016. This comic dropped a bombshell on readers: Captain America was an agent of Hydra, eschewing freedom and democracy for fascism. The book revealed how all this occurred, including how Rogers took control of SHIELD and enacted a plan that allowed him to take over the United States.Secret Empire, by writer Nick Spencer and artists Steve McNiven, Leinil Yu, Andrea Sorrentino, Rod Reis, Joshua Cassara, Daniel Acuña, Sean Izaakse, Java Tartaglia, Joe Bennet, David Marquez, Paco Medina, Juan Vlasco, Jesus Arbutov, and Ron Lim, kicked off in 2017, but the book had problems from the start. Secret Empire hasn’t aged well, but that’s not really surprising. However, recent events in Fall of X’s Uncanny Avengers have brought parts of the story back to the fore, which begs the question: is it time to re-evaluate Secret Empire?Captain America is a symbol of the US. Secret Empire and its build-up was meant to subvert that, which actually fit what was going on in American political discourse at the time. However, transforming Captain America into an agent of Hydra felt extremely disrespectful to the legacy of Captain America creators Joe Simon and Jack Kirby, two Jewish creators who made Captain America a statement against fascism and Nazis. Now, the connection between Hydra and Nazis was always there. This mainly came from characters like Red Skull, Baron Strucker, and the original Baron Zemo, all former members of the Third Reich. But it wasn’t as overt until Captain America: The First Avenger came out. In the years before that movie, few would have called Hydra a Nazi organization, something the movie established, and the comics followed suit.RELATED: The 25 Strongest Marvel CharactersRELATED: 10 Marvel Heroes Who Have Somehow Never Had A Solo Ongoing Comic
Secret Empire has a terrible legacy. The event’s build-up kicked off in earnest with Steve Rogers: Captain America, a book that launched back in May 2016. This comic dropped a bombshell on readers: Captain America was an agent of Hydra, eschewing freedom and democracy for fascism. The book revealed how all this occurred, including how Rogers took control of SHIELD and enacted a plan that allowed him to take over the United States.
Secret Empire, by writer Nick Spencer and artists Steve McNiven, Leinil Yu, Andrea Sorrentino, Rod Reis, Joshua Cassara, Daniel Acuña, Sean Izaakse, Java Tartaglia, Joe Bennet, David Marquez, Paco Medina, Juan Vlasco, Jesus Arbutov, and Ron Lim, kicked off in 2017, but the book had problems from the start. Secret Empire hasn’t aged well, but that’s not really surprising. However, recent events in Fall of X’s Uncanny Avengers have brought parts of the story back to the fore, which begs the question: is it time to re-evaluate Secret Empire?
Captain America is a symbol of the US. Secret Empire and its build-up was meant to subvert that, which actually fit what was going on in American political discourse at the time. However, transforming Captain America into an agent of Hydra felt extremely disrespectful to the legacy of Captain America creators Joe Simon and Jack Kirby, two Jewish creators who made Captain America a statement against fascism and Nazis. Now, the connection between Hydra and Nazis was always there. This mainly came from characters like Red Skull, Baron Strucker, and the original Baron Zemo, all former members of the Third Reich. But it wasn’t as overt until Captain America: The First Avenger came out. In the years before that movie, few would have called Hydra a Nazi organization, something the movie established, and the comics followed suit.
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