REVIEW: Captain Carter #2

Story thus far:

In the previous issue of Captain Carter #1,In an alternate universe, Peggy Carter had taken the super soldier serum to become Captain Carter. After fighting in WWII, she was recovered from an Iceberg decades after sacrificing herself to defeat hydrate. In the current issue of Captain Carter #2, Now that Peggy has been integrated back into the fold, she must deal with head of the United Kingdom government Prime Minister Williams. Williams has just rolled out an anti-terrorism initiative against the current threat, which is Hydra.

The operations team for the initiative is S.T.R.I.K.E formerly a U.K. Division of SHIELD. All is well for Carter who continues the fight against Hydra, until STRIKE raids a Hydra operation, and it is revealed that they were smuggling undocumented immigrants. In the media it was heralded as a successful anti-terrorism operation by Peggy Carter and STRIKE, but her friends are disappointed in her because of her actions and the way she dealt with the immigrants. Of which she didn’t know because of course she’s been in ice. Since the end of World War II. So, she doesn’t know what the big deal is. When they inform her of what it means for the immigrants. She immediately goes to confront Prime Minister Williams, upon where she threatens to quit.

Script:

I see Jaimie Mcelvie’s vision of forcing Captain Carter to operate in an environment grounded in 2022, global grounded reality. Just the fact that it was Hydra making some of the moves pushes them into a grey zone that fits most of the real-life bad guys.

The only problem is that the script starts out with an enticing focus on anti-terrorism policy and its affect on immigration policy enforcement, but then makes an illogical leap to having Captain Carter making life changing judgments based on the Google research of a 16-year-old. Also, McKelvie might need to have a military consultant give him some tips on how a WWII military solider would handle things he doesn’t agree with.

Art:

Art by Marika Cresta. The art was good especially considering how complicated the panels were; however, there were not any poster like panels for the interiors. The Lettering: Clayton Cowles, a lot of lettering making the panels to busy to read at times.

SCORE: 2/5