In case you don’t know, Steve Rogers aka Captain America is dead!
He was killed in a “rain of gunfire” in the March issue of CAPTAIN AMERICA (#25). This January (issue #34) a new, yet to be named character, will replace Steve Rogers and don a new costume designed by Marvel’s Alex Ross.
The new cap will have a cool, new look and will be wielding a GUN! Yeah, baby!
According to the official news at marvel.com: “Well I think in many ways we want people to react with whatever emotions that come to mind,” says Ross. “The idea that Captain America would have an offensive weapon like a gun…if it’s an upset feeling, we want it to be so. We want it to feel like, ‘Oh, he’s got a gun now. Captain America with a gun?!’ You know, it should stick in your mind that that’s something. This is not your father’s Captain America, so to speak. It’s a more brutish interpretation, at this point, for the modern age.”

More costume designs and insights about the new Cap after the jump
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