Captain America 2: Castaway in Dimension Z (Captain America: Marvel Now!) - Softcover

Remender, Rick

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0785166564 ISBN 13: 9780785166566

Publisher: Marvel Enterprises, 2014

Synopsis

Captain America has spent twelve years as a fugitive wandering the wasteland of Dimension Z, battling the Zola virus within him and travelling with a boy he has raised as his own. Now, the Sentinel of Liberty brings the fight back to Dimension Z's godlike oppressor Arnim Zola when Cap becomes the last remaining hope for the native species, the Phrox! A lone soldier waging a one-man crusade to stop the spread of Zola's consciousness in this world and his own, can Captain America turn the ti de in the odd war of this backward realm? Battling savage mutates, Zola's twisted Captain Zolandia, and even his own adopted son, Steve Rogers stares death in the face and makes the hardest decision of his life when he pays the deadly price...to escape from Dimension Z!

COLLECTING: CAPTAIN AMERICA 6-10

About this title

About the Author:

Beginning his career in animation working on such films as The Iron Giant, Anastasia and Titan A.E., Rick Remender has become a comic-book triple threat - writing, penciling and inking numerous fan-favorite series. Remender served as writer on hit video games Dead Space and Bulletstorm, while providing art for punk/metal bands like NOFX and 3 Inches of Blood. He's co-created many popular independent titles, including the critically acclaimed Fear Agent with longtime collaborators Tony Moore and Jerome Opeña. His time at Marvel started on Punisher and has since led to well-received runs on Uncanny X-Force and Venom.

John Romita Jr. is a modern-day comic-art master, following in his legendary father's footsteps. Timeless runs on Iron Man, Uncanny X-Men, Amazing Spider-Man and Daredevil established him as his own man artistically, and his work on Wolverine and World War Hulk is arguably the most explosive comic art of the last decade. In addition to Eternals with writer Neil Gaiman, JRJR teamed with Mark Millar on the creator-owned Kick-Ass, later developed into a blockbuster feature film starring Nicolas Cage. Spider-Man fans rejoiced at the artist's return to Amazing Spider-Man with the "Brand New Day" storylines "New Ways To Die" and "Character Assassination." He later helped relaunch Avengers with writer Brian Michael Bendis and Captain America with Rick Remender, and contributed to the blockbuster crossover Avengers vs. X-Men.

From Booklist:

*Starred Review* Ed Brubaker’s espionage-noir interpretation of Marvel’s Captain America hit big and served as the impetus for the character’s 2014 cinematic sequel, The Winter Soldier. Facing the daunting task of following up the popular run, Remender (Tales of the Fear Agent, 2008) embraces a diametrically opposed vision, to thrilling effect. Taking his cue from Jack Kirby’s bonkers run from the 1970s, he plunges Captain America into a sci-fi universe of unrelenting dread. Trapped in Dimension Z, a world ruled by Nazi geneticist Arnim Zola, the hero battles to derail the megalomaniac’s plan to infect earth with his own crazed consciousness. Remender knows how to torture protagonists like few others, deepening Cap’s emotional investment by giving him an adopted son and tightening the vice by impregnating the hero with a growing seed of Zola’s personality. Remender’s tight, harrowing, and action-packed writing is coupled with Romita’s seasoned, savvy sequential storytelling, which here combines Kirby’s awe-inspiring dynamism with horrific imagery appropriate to a world of nightmare. The climax of the adventure (concluding from book 1) hammers Cap with one devastating blow after another, ensuring that, as things have seldom been so desperate for Marvel’s most dogged hero, he has seldom been more heroic. --Jesse Karp

About this edition

• Publisher: Marvel Enterprises
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0785166564
• ISBN 13: 9780785166566
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 136
• Illustrator: Romita John Jr.