The letters page in ANAD Avengers is polarised. A lot of people are super mad that they’re changing things, like comics (and especially Marvel comics) haven’t literally always been pretty damn progressive. And this iteration of the Avengers has good stuff – a mix of the old guard (Tony Stark, Vision, Sam Wilson, and I guess Jane Foster though she’s new as an actual hero) and brand new (Miles Morales, Kamala Khan, Sam Alexander), lots of tensions, Vision being a creeper, the dynamic between Little Sam and Kamala, Big Sam and Tony trying to be Team Dads… Hell, Cap and Tony just in general have some great interactions in the way they’re not exactly BFFs and definitely disagree on a lot, but still have that long history of working together and respecting each other. Well. Mostly. Sometimes.
Month: November 2016
Captain America: Hail Hydra (#3-5)
Oh look, I’m back on Captain America. >.> This run established a potential link between Steve and Hydra through the Lazarus formula which he was (retcon-actively) injected with back in 1944.
Year of Marvels: May
This just hit Marvel Unlimited so I’m guessing it’s referring to May 2016. She-Wolverine and She-Hulk team up to fight wendigos!
Captain America #161-163
You have to appreciate their differing reactions to a bunch of bad guys jumping into the road in front of them.
Steve: *swerves to avoid them*
Sam: *probably gunning the motor*
Captain America #154
Look, I’m not even going to talk about how homoerotic this is. Because even if you view it as completely platonic, it’s really, really sweet. That bottom left panel! “…Which is when Steve Rogers’ breathing steadies, too.” These guys have been total bros ever since they met. And yeah, they fight a lot, Sam goes back and forth on being his partner a metric ton, he calls Steve the hell out when he’s being a dick – but ten issues later when Steve’s been kicked out of his place Sharon goes straight to Sam’s because she knows that’s where he’ll be. He’s an Avenger, he could stay at their freaking mansion, but no. He’s on a cot in Sam’s office. They need each other. They’re Cap and Falcon, as much as Cap and Bucky were Cap and Bucky.
(Also note that they’re calling each other by name here. They usually don’t when they’re in costume, even when they’re alone, especially in Sam’s case because his identity is still very secret. He calls Steve a lot of things – the generic words he uses for anyone like brother, man, etc, the obvious Cap, once even baby. Steve calls him Falcon, Falc, or sometimes imitates Sam’s slang, and guys there is seriously nothing whiter than this damn white kid saying “I dig” like he grew up in the hood. But when Steve’s desperately trying to save him he forgets all about that. They might not be saying it, but they can’t just shake that off so easily.)