I couldn’t believe it when I read it back in New Avengers. Doctor Strange and Tony Stark turned on Captain America – wiping his memory and kicked him out of the Illuminati – Marvel’s secret cabal of heroes trying to save our universe…no matter the cost.
It’s one of the biggest story elements from Jonathan Hickman’s first year on Avengers and New Avengers. Now it all comes back to Steve as Original Sin shakes the Marvel Universe.
In Avengers #29 Captain America remembers.
“Since the first issue of AVENGERS and the very beginning of NEW AVENGERS, it’s the thing that’s been sitting in the background, the thing you knew would come to a head,” Hickman tells Marvel.com. “Captain America remembering. That the Illuminati reformed and kicked him out because he didn’t have his blood up enough. He remembers.”
In Original Sin by Jason Aaron – the Watcher is murdered on the moon and the ancient alien’s secrets are stolen.
“When the events of Original Sin happen, that’s the catalyst that unlocks all of that stuff in his head. One night he goes to sleep not remembering. The next day he wakes up and he does. That fundamentally changes the world that he lives in, what this larger Avengers World is all about. This machine that he and Tony built. It colors all of that in a completely new light. It’ll color Captain America moving forward for the next year.”
How will Steve react to Tony and Dr. Strange’s betrayal?
Find out in Avengers #29 this May.
By Editor