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New Comic Mini-Series Reveals ‘Newly Woke’ Captain America Who Questions The American Dream

Emily Zanotti
New Comic Mini-Series Reveals ‘Newly Woke’ Captain America Who Questions The American Dream
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A new Captain America mini-series from Marvel Comics called, “The United States of Captain America,” takes a new approach to the legendary hero, portraying Steve Rogers as less of a patriotic icon, and more of a jaded, newly woke, and “solemn” Avenger who believes the American Dream is really “two dreams. And one lie.”

The mini-series, which is just a minor arc in a much larger universe that explores a more complex side of Captain America, per its promotional materials, premiered just ahead of Independence Day on June 30th and features an older Captain America looking back on his crime-fighting career while he prepares memorabilia for the Smithsonian Museum in Washington, D.C., per Bounding Into Comics.

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