Un cosplay à effet boule de neige à en croire cette anecdote (le numéro de PAD avec Spidey en banlieue, longtemps inédit en VF, comptant parmi les inspirations d’Homecoming) :
"One of Jonathan Frakes’s earliest jobs was as a Captain America, hired by Marvel for public appearances at early conventions and events.
Also, Jonathan Frakes inspired a sequence in the recent Spider-Man: Homecoming . Once, Frakes was asked to wear the Spider-Man suit around the Marvel offices when the original performer was sick. Writer Peter David saw how awkward he was just walking around the Marvel offices, without swinging, and it inspired a story where Spider-Man goes to the outer boroughs and suburbs and awkwardly walks around without anything to swing from. It was one of the funniest and most memorable Spidey stories ever, and was mined for one of Homecoming ’s better sequences."
« (Years ago, in a Comic Book Legends Revealed, i wrote about how David was inspired to come up with a story where Spidey had to walk around after seeing a fill-in actor playing Spider-Man for Marvel’s character appearance program. The actor normally played Captain America, so he walked like Cap, dressed as Spidey, and David was struck by how odd that looked, so he set off to find a way to write a story where Spider-Man would be forced to walk around. That actor, by the way? A young man named Jonathan Frakes). »
Je viens de finir de relire le run de Steve Englehart, qui correspond au 4ème Essential Marvel (et qui sera donc l’objet de mon prochain billet comics).
Une prestation qui évolue dans une ambiance qui ne prête pas vraiment à sourire, mais il y a tout de même une situation assez amusante. Après la saga de l’Empire Secret et sa fin dramatique, Steve Rogers décide d’abandonner son identité de Captain America et devient Nomad. Il confectionne lui-même son costume et décide alors d’ajouter un élément absent de sa panoplie de vengeur étoilé : une cape !
Mais lors de sa première sortie en Nomad, Steve Rogers réalise assez durement que porter une cape n’est pas vraiment adapté à son style de combat…^^
C’est bien ça. L’arc de l’imposteur était dans le précédent et j’ai déjà écrit un billet dessus (post #175). Au début, je pensais juste prendre le 4ème Essential pour relire la saga de l’Empire Secret…et finalement, j’ai tout relu…^^
Tiens, je ne connaissais pas cette initiative pour participer à l’effort de guerre…
« Votre pièce de 10 centimes pourrait aider à payer la balle qui achèvera le dernier jap ! »…une autre époque, ouais…
Dans Incredible Hulk #417 (l’enterrement de vie de garçon de Rick Jones), Cap est très embarrassé quand il découvre que l’Effeuilleuse n’est pas une magicienne, mais une strip-teaseuse !
Et ça ne s’arrange pas quand la bande se rassemble pour regarder un film coquin !
Ryan Meinerding (associé aux films du MCU de Marvel Studios depuis la phase 1) évoque les influences visuelles du 1er film de la trilogie Captain America (The First Avenger) :
« Bryan Hitch’s work was definitely a big influence for two of the Cap suits. The « Ultimates » is a really great source of inspiration. For the red, white and blue suit, we definitely were looking at how Bryan was able to make the suit feel a bit more real, and trying a few things ourselves. I always loved treating the cowl and mask as a helmet and chinstrap, and I used that in my most early drawings. The « Ultimates » Cap was also the inspiration for using military webbing, or straps, as part of the costume. Generally, those straps are meant to hold the up the soldier’s belt that has extra ammo and gear attached. I always saw it as accomplishing that, as well as being a type of body armor, but also as part of the system that held the shield when he wore it on his back. Even if that shield is relatively lightweight, it would still need something to securely fasten it to his back. The straps that come off his chest are very similar to the ALICE webbing that was used in Vietnam. Using the straps as the stripes across his torso then seemed like an elegant design solution. In the end, the main design aspects of this suit are meant to be about making it appear soldier-like, functional and tough. This is the suit where he fully embraces his role as Captain America, so we wanted the iconic silhouette that everyone loves, but we wanted to clothe it in function and the period. »
« For the Leather Jacket costume, I did like the « Ultimates » WWII suit, but I was directly inspired by Kevin Maguire’s work on the « Adventures of Captain America » miniseries. There is a section in that where Steve goes out on a mission before he gets his official costume, and he’s wearing a leather jacket, goggles and a wool hat. I thought making it a helmet made a bit more sense, and using American aviator goggles would add the requisite period feel. While I was working on that, I bought a few M1 helmets and the aviator goggles on eBay. It was great to have the real things to work from. Those goggles are a beautiful design, they are one of the coolest things I own. Joe was really interested in making that suit about the USO costume underneath – that he turns away from the USO costume by covering it in the leather jacket, but over the course of his first mission, that jacket is ripped to shreds and Cap’s true colors show through. I always loved that direction; it’s a brilliant way to use the costume to show the character’s journey. »
« The USO suit was meant to be directly inspired by the [Jack] Kirby design. We tried to keep it as close to the original as possible. It’s as straightforward a design as we could achieve. It’s a truly iconic design and I hope we did it justice. »
Captain America est l’un des personnages du jeu d’arcade Avengers in Galactic Storm sorti en 1995 et inspiré par le crossover Operation : Galactic Storm publié en 1992.
