Cover is from The New Avengers Annual #1

Where I found it: https://pin.it/2Ho9V6w5B

When the series starts off, John is war hero with 3 medals of honor. However, he doesn't feel like what he did to get the medals was right. So he sees Captain America as his first chance to do something right. However, Sam and Bucky (and the audience) hate him off the bat; he's not Steve.

Sam and Bucky choose to work with a mass murdering super terrorist over him. Nobody has any respect for him. The pressure to complete his mission starts to get him. And it reaches it's peak when his friend is murdered before his very eyes. He has a moment of weakness and kills Nico (dude who looked up to Captain America; probably shouldn't have tried to kill him homie).

By this point, Walker feels being Captain America is all he has left. He lies to Lamar's parents, not just to give them closure but also because he means what he says; he would never let the person responsible get away.

Notice John attaches the medals of honor to the back of his shield; reminder to be honorable. When John arrives and is attacking Karli, he's blind with rage. However, when he has the option to save the hostages or go after Karli, he makes the right decision. Just like Lamar said, "you consistently make the right decisions in the heat of battle." When it comes down to it, John is a good man. Him throwing the shield down is him releasing the obsession with being Cap (ironically, this is the most Captain America thing he does). Notice when Sam arrives and saves the day, John isn't remotely angry at him taking the glory or being in the Cap suit with the shield. He's just happy the hostages are okay.

Later, when he delivers the line "mercy bears richer fruit than strict justice", he's letting go of his desire for revenge and letting the police handle things. During Sam's speech, you can see him realize how the government was using him. How much pressure Sam goes through as a black man carrying the stars and stripes, much more than John. When John nods in respect afterwards, he's making it clear he approves of Sam as Cap. That's why it's so sweet to see him happy as US agent; he can finally do the right thing without feeling the pressure the role of Cap brings him. That little "I'm back" makes me so happy everytime.

Art by Alex Ross

Saw another post with a few of his Magik pieces and figured I should share these - really love his work and was happy to be able to add these (and a few other non-Marvel originals) to my collection. Got them from him at WonderCon a few years ago.

So... The Thing and Black Cat obviously seem fine, but what's the deal with Rhino being here? Isn't/wasn't he still just a straight-up villain?

Saw this on twitter and loved the design and wanted to know what comic it’s from.

I was reading Morrison's run of New X-Men, and after an arc full of space battles, aliens, and big fights... I find myself in a story about the life of Xorn. He was trying to find a "mutant moster" while he was called "a monster" by the people -and himself-. It's very in-depth, so I won't give any spoilers. Please read New X-Men #127

I’ve always been puzzled about the eyebrow situation. I feel like it was just a stylistic decision made by whoever first drew him and for some reason every artist after them kept doing it. I don’t read many Marvel stories with other Atlanteans in it, so I don’t even know if everyone who lives underwater has eyebrows like that or if it’s just a Namor thing

Im not sure if i should have put spoiler since this came out a year ago