Steve Rogers broods over the two American dreams and one lie. A guy dressed as
Captain America crashes into the room, beats up Steve, and makes off with the
shield. Steve calls the Falcon to fly out and track the shield thief, while
donning his Cap outfit and pursuing on motorcycle. Sam sees the surprisingly
speedy thief at a railroad bridge; the thief hurls the shield, smashing the
front of an oncoming train and the disappears again. A second train is coming,
on course to hit the stopped train. Cap rushes to the oncoming train and has
them hit the brakes but there’s still a collision. Cap works to rescue the
injured passengers and spies a fellow in a Cap outfit—but it isn’t the thief:
it’s a teenager in a makeshift Cap outfit and mocked up shield. His name is
Aaron Fischer and he’s a wanderer, inspired by Captain America to help anyone
he can. A female sniper shoots Aaron in the arm before diving into the river
and getting away. Aaron mentions a whole loose network of Captains America
across the country, helping where they can. After taking Aaron to the hospital,
Steve and Sam decide to search for these other Caps to protect them from the
assassin and maybe find the shield….
Characters: Steve Cap, Falcon
“Tracks”
Writer:
Josh Trujillo. Art: Jan Bazaldua. Colors: Matt Milla.
Synopsis: Aaron Fisher, thrown out by his father
for being queer, goes to the big city where he learns other homeless youth have
been disappearing. He decides to look for them since that’s Captain America
would do; suspecting that Roxxon has something to do with it, he breaks into a
corporate building where he is thumped over the head and wakes up in a Roxxon
forced labor camp where the situation is outlined by a kid named Adrian. Aaron
decides to fight back: he puts together a simple Cap-inspired costume with a wooden
shield and attacks the place’s four guards and defeats them. He and Adrian, his
new boyfriend, hop a train out of there….