All-Out Avengers #3 features Captain America forced to work with his ultimate enemy, from the WWII era to the present day.
All-round avengers #3 sees Captain America and the rest of the Avengers ally with the Red Skull.
Written by Derek Landy and illustrated by Greg Land, All-round avengers #3 features a swarm of SHIELD-designed Red Skull LMD – Life-Model Decoys that act as lookalikes of an existing person. Confronted from all sides, Earth’s Mightiest Heroes have no choice but to work with the original Red Skull to stop the decoys. The issue’s main cover shows both Captain Americas – Steve Rogers and Sam Wilson – taking on a team of Red Skulls together.
While the Avengers working with the Red Skull might seem unusual, it’s not unprecedented. Mark Waid and Ron Garney’s 1996 “Operation: Rebirth” story arc saw Steve Rogers drained of his super-soldier serum and on the verge of death. A blood transfusion from the Red Skull – the only other man with a similar serum circulating in his body – saved Steve, and the unlikely duo ended up working together to defeat a neo-Nazi faction named Kubekult.
Kubekult had stolen the Cosmic Cube and intended to use it to revive Adolf Hitler, paving the way for a Fourth Reich. Red Skull, unwilling to let anyone but himself achieve world domination, reluctantly helped Captain America and SHIELD Agent Sharon Carter infiltrate Kubekult. Red Skull eventually attempted to trap Cap in the Cosmic Cube, but during their brief alliance, he took the opportunity to taunt his old enemy with more than a few jokes. “How does it feel to find out you owe your life to a man you’ve hated for half a century? Red Skull asked in Captain America #445.
All-round avengers, which hits comic book store shelves in September, is intended to get readers right into the action from the first issue and serve as exposition later on. “I needed to find the hook that takes the reader from one issue to the next, and I figured the best way to do that was to put the Avengers in the same situation as the reader: they’re aware that’s happening, but they’re not. I don’t know why,” Landy told CBR. “Greg Land, Jay Leisten and Frank D’Armata – it’s so exciting to work with a team like this, a team charged with making All-round avengers the most beautiful book you have at your disposal.”
All-round avengers #3 features cover art from Land. The issue will go on sale November 23 from Marvel.
Source: Marvel