After What If…?’s first episode launched the world to a model of Peggy Carter that took the Super Soldier serum as an alternative of Steve Rogers, followers actually took a shine to that model of Haley Atwell’s character. With this iteration of Peggy additionally set to be the lead of the present’s eventual sophomore season, it’s not a foul bounce to reputation for a hero initially created for a cell recreation. It was a matter of time earlier than Marvel started to capitalize on Captain Carter’s reputation, and are available this spring, that’ll lastly occur.

Announced yesterday by Marvel, Captain Carter will probably be a five-issue miniseries that sees Peggy coping with an outdated enemy who’s proven up within the modern-day and adjusting to her new life out of the ice. Providing artwork for the ebook will probably be Star Wars: Doctor Aphra’s Marika Cresta, and Jamie McKelvie of Young Avengers and Wicked and Divine fame will write. Like Captain Marvel and Ms. Marvel beforehand, McKelvie additionally supplied the design of Carter’s costume that you simply see beneath.

Describing himself as a giant fan of Carter, McKelvie expressed pleasure about bringing the breakout character to comics. Like with Steve, a part of the battle will stem from having to reckon with residing as much as the world’s notion of her. “The world remembers the myth of Captain Carter, but to Peggy the reality was just yesterday. Now she finds herself in a nearly unrecognizable new world, how does she fit in? Can she be the Super Hero people want her to be?” McKelvie is happy to each discover these questions and flesh out Carter’s world, praising Cresta’s artwork for bringing vitality to Carter and the supporting solid, and having “stellar” motion scenes. (That means we’ll in all probability get a comic book model of Winter Soldier’s Elevator scene, proper?)

Captain Carter #1 will launch on March 9, 2022.

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