Secret Avengers #11So, what happened with John Steele to turn him from a patriotic soldier to a thug for the villainous Shadow Council? Secret Avengers #11 by Ed Brubaker and Will Conrad begins a two part arc to answer that very question.
After capturing Steele during the final showdown between the Secret Avengers and the Shadow Council, Hank McCoy uses an experimental machine that will help sift through Steele’s memories to figure out how he got to where he is now. McCoy and Steve Rogers discover there are missing moments and parts of the memory that just seem to be incomplete. Rogers find a moment during World War II when he and Steele are on a mission. This mission would be the last one that Steele was seen on between then and when he showed back up as a lackey for the Shadow Council. Rogers goes into the machine to help flesh out the memory a little more. The memory changes as Steele wrestles control over the situation away from McCoy and his team of scientists. When Rogers comes back to the real world, they are surprised by a fully conscious Steele ready to cause inflict some pain on the scientists and heroes in the facility.
For these last two issues, Brubaker is tying up his last loose end by bringing John Steele’s past into focus. Instead of getting the type of story like we got for Max Fury that is told almost entirely in flashback, here, we get a much more sci-fi, super-science telling. What I’m a little surprised by is if Cap was with Steele in his last mission, why can’t he just give the story that he remembers? Why do we necessarily need the super-science? I get that whatever must have happened with Steele probably happened after this mission, and I also get that the moment the Shadow Council started showing up in the memory, it probably wasn’t the actual memory, but still… If Cap can remember what happened, why put him into the memory? Knowing Brubaker is a master storyteller (probably Marvel’s best writer), I assume he wanted a different way to tell the story, and he does have Rogers say that something had to happen on that mission, but it struck me a bit odd that we had to go through all these more far out situations to get to the story.
Will Conrad’s art hardly misses a beat from the phenomenal Mike Deodato. It gives us a look that doesn’t shake or distract us and the colors really keeps to the tone set in the early issues. Conrad’s pencils really shines in the scenes from World War II. Not only do we have the war setting, but we have the creepy cavern Steele and Rogers are investigating and a pretty bitchin’ monster born from Nazi experiments.
One more issue left from Ed Brubaker before he heads out for greener pastures. I’m very much looking forward to getting the wrap up of the John Steele character and seeing all the loose ends coming to a neat little conclusion.
A COMIC BOOK BLOG RATINGProsConsGreat art that definitely does not make me long for Deodato's stuff, so it is a nice, even transition from Deodato to Conrad. Glad we get to see more about John Steele.Weird usage of a machine that takes Cap back to a moment that he should already remember and give info on. Rating90% You might also like...
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