Brubaker's new Cap

I talked this afternoon with Eisner award-winning writer Ed Brubaker, writer of Marvel’s “Captain America” and a whole bunch of other monthly titles.

He killed off Steve Rogers earlier this year and early next year a new Captain America debuts. Much has been made of the fact that this new Cap carries a gun. Too much, perhaps, Brubaker says. After all, Captain America is a super-soldier.

“If you look back at Captain America comics in the ‘40s, you’ll see plenty of images of Captain America just chugging away on a machine gun there, or a flame-thrower,” Brubaker notes.

Of course, this new Captain America isn’t at war. “Part of the whole new Cap is taking a guy who isn’t Steve Rogers, who had a different upbringing, and putting him into that place. How do you fill those shoes, and can you?”