Turns out it was just mind control after all, despite Marvel's claims that it wasn't. (SPOILERS)

Source: ComicBook.com

According to an EXXXCLUSIVE report on ComicBook.com, Marvel is already planning to reveal that their shocking twist that Steve Rogers has always been a Hydra agent, which occurred less than a month ago in Captain America: Steve Rogers #1, was just a fake-out. Remember, after the first issue came out and the internet was in an uproar over Cap's secret Nazi past, Marvel VP Tom Brevoort and writer slash Hillary Clinton campaign proxy Nick Spencer were very clear that this wasn't just a cheap gimmick, with Spencer saying:

This is not a clone, not an imposter, not mind control, not someone else acting through Steve. This really is Steve Rogers, Captain America himself.

In an interview with Time, which apparently doesn't know the rules of comic book journalism and asked Brevoort an uncomfortable question, Brevoort elaborated:

To ask the blunt question, is this a gimmick? Every single month whether it's a run of the mill month for Captain America or an extraordinary month, our job is to put him in situations that place that character under some degree of pressure and see how he reacts to that. And hopefully our readers are surprised, shocked, elated, see something of themselves, learn something about themselves. To say it's a gimmick implies that it's done heedlessly just to shock. The proof is always going to be in the execution. So you'll have to read the rest of the story to see. But I certainly believe it's not a gimmick. It's a story that we spent a long time on, that's compelling and captures the zeitgeist of the world. It will make readers wonder how the heck we'll get out of this.

Well, it turns out Spencer and Brevoort were outright lying and it actually was a gimmick and it actually was mind control, unless you're going to get really picky over semantics. ComicBook.com, jealous of the hits other sites got after spoiling the Captain America reveal after the issue leaked, was sure to get EXXXCLUSIVE permission to report on the comic from their corporate overlords, saying:

Captain America: Steve Rogers #2, from the creative team of writer Nick Spencer and artist Jesus Saiz, reveals that Steve's memories of indoctrination were implanted by Kobik, the sentient Cosmic Cube who became a girl. Not only that, but Kobik has been under the influence of Steve Rogers' most fearsome archenemies, the Red Skull, for months.

So... mind control. Something nobody would have even doubted was the case if not for Spencer and Brevoort blatantly lying about it on their publicity tour. Well, that certainly makes more sense than Rogers actually being a longtime secret Nazi, but it's disappointing that Marvel didn't have a more clever way of undoing the damage than simply lying after everyone correctly guessed what was really going on.

So, Captain America: Steve Rogers features the same old mind controlled hero plot we've gotten for years in comics. House of Ideas indeed. Then again, at least Steve Rogers isn't a real Nazi, which was somehow even worse than Marvel's comics simply being creatively bankrupt.

ComicBook.com has an interview with Marvel Editor in Chief Axel Alonso to go along with their scoop, so go and check that out if you enjoy corporate doublespeak. It's a highly interesting interview where ComicBook.com asks tough questions and demands Alonso elaborate on the lying.

Haha just kidding. It's a fluff interview. Wow, lying *is* fun!