Et donc, en parlant d’American Dream, le personnage, au départ, n’était pas une grande blonde solide. Et n’avait pas encore de nom.
Ron Frenz :
‘I was working too hard to avoid the obvious. When I first conceived of the idea of doing a female Captain America, I playing with a bunch of different ideas. One of them was a black girl with no hair sticking out the back. What I didn’t like at the time - which I look back at it now it’s probably something I shouldn’t have worried about - I didn’t like the way the brown skin looked against the medium blue of the suit. So, I kept playing with different ideas, we had a lot of different ideas; a lot of different ideas for names, a lot of different ideas for approach. At one point what occurred to me - and which I thought was something Tom responding to well- was we weren’t going to make her related to Steve Rogers. We didn’t know enough about Steve Rogers to have her be a cousin or something like that. But Sharon Carter was right there and I said ‘well, wait a minute! She’s related to Sharon Carter!’ And right there, I said ‘screw it, I’m going to make her a statuesque blonde!’ We just kind of went with it from there.’
Les recherches de Ron Frenz sont parties dans différentes directions, et le personnage, avant d’être relié à Sharon Carter (c’est une petite cousine) et de s’appeler American Dream, a failli s’appeler All-American voire Golden Girl :
Shannon Carter fait son apparition dans A-Next#1, et endosse son identité dans A-Next#4 (A-Next étant la série racontant les aventures des héritiers des Vengeurs dans l’univers estampillé « MC2 »). Elle a eu sa propre mini-série, que je n’ai pas, ce qui m’étonne parce que bon, du Tom DeFalco / Todd Nauck, c’est typique le genre de trucs que je pourrais avoir chez moi !!!
« Avengers Jam » :
Bob Wiacek (Beast)
Barry Kitson (Wasp)
Alex Saviuk (Ant-Man)
Erik Larsen (Vision)
Ron Wilson (Black Panther)
Jerry Ordway (Captain America)
Rich Buckler (Thor)
Joe St-Pierre (Spider-Man)
Craig Rousseau (Hercules)
Bob Layton (Iron Man)
Ton Raney (Hulk)
Keith Williams (Monica « Captain Marvel » Rambeau)
Bob Hall (Black Widow)
George Pérez (Quicksilver)
Bob McLeod (Scarlet Witch)
Sean Chen (Hawkeye)
Arvell Jones (Wonder Man)
Avec, en back-up, une confrontation Iron Man / Giant-Man assez intéressante, écrite par Dwayne McDuffie. En revanche, je ne suis pas fan des dessins de Michael Avon Œming, sur ces back-ups.
