Captain America Gets Astonishing Treatment

New Limited Series by Diggle and Granov

At New York Comic-Con, Marvel announced an expansion to it's "Astonishing" line of books, which already includes Astonishing X-Men and Astonishing Thor. Astonishing Captain America, a 5 issue limited series headed by the all-star creative team of Andy Diggle (Shadowland) and Adi Granov (Iron Man) will be in stores next summer. Diggle breaks the series down:

"It's a high-tech 'tough-guy on a mission' story," explains Diggle. "Adi and I were both keen to play up the 'super soldier' angle, so you can expect a kind of quasi-sci-fi 'Where Eagles Dare' vibe. You don't need a whole team of commandos when you've got Steve Rogers. He's an army of one."

The focus of the story won't be on Steve Rogers as a super hero, but as a 21-century soldier. Diggle isn't shy about how good the story is going to be. He proclaims, "It's going to tear [their] world apart and make them question the very nature of reality itself. And that's just issue #1!"

There will be a lot of Captain America books coming out as the release of Captain America: The First Avenger approaches and the creative team on Astonishing Captain America alone should put it at the top of your star-spangled reading list.