Marvel Admits The Biggest Civil War Criticism Was Totally Valid
Warning: contains spoilers for Captain America: Sentinel of Liberty #1!
While Captain America is Marvel's most morally-upstanding superhero, even he has his fair share of flaws — and he just admitted one of his biggest. A memorable conversation during Marvel's Civil War event between Steve Rogers and a reporter lives in infamy among Captain America fans, in which said reporter insinuated that the hero is too far removed from the American people to possibly understand them. In Captain America: Sentinel of Liberty #1, these much-maligned assumptions are proven true — by none other than Captain America himself.
Fifteen years after its conclusion, Marvel's Civil War event continues to shape their universe. The event irrevocably changed multiple heroes — Spider-Man publicly unmasked, leading directly to Aunt May's near-death and the events of One More Day, for example — but Steve Rogers tragically died shortly after the conflict. But one of the more memorable moments from Civil War actually came before the event proper; in Civil War: Frontline #11, reporter Sally Floyd sharply chastised Steve Rogers for not understanding MySpace, never watching The Simpsons or ever attending a NASCAR race.
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The reporter's line of questioning was widely ridiculed, but in Captain America: Sentinel of Liberty #1, written by Jackson Lanzing & Collin Kelly with art by Carmen Carnero, Steve Rogers decides to return to his roots as an ordinary American living in New York City. Realizing he has grown out of touch with the average citizen, he seeks to live a (relatively) normal life. «I'd almost forgotten what it was like to have friends,» he muses. «Civilian,
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