Cap's last heir in The United States of Captain America is an Air Force officer

Started two short weeks ago, the series The United States of Captain America will have been talked about a lot for her “heirs” – characters of patriots inspired by the symbol of the shield and the flag, taking up the public image of Steve Rogers to fight smaller fights on their own scale. If some of these new heroes or these new heroines will have irritated the Republican fringe of the readership of Marvel in the United States (at best), the last profile evokes a more conventional status in the history of Cap‘: the army.

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The character of Jeremy Merrick, captain of the United States Air Force, will be the fifth and final Captain America to appear at the end of this mini-series of Christopher Cantwell and Dale Eaglesham. The screenwriter explains that he was inspired by an authentic guy, whom he had met as part of a documentary on the National Guard some twenty years ago. He was also called Jeremy, and his altruism has apparently upset the ideas of Cantwell on the image of the soldiers deployed in Afghanistan at the time.

As representative of the ideal of Captain America, Merrick is on his side an officer at the Sam Wilson of The Winter Soldier : on a daily basis, the hero comes to the aid of veterans who returned from the front and still traumatized, or to forces sent into the field at regular intervals (the famous “tours“of the American military service, where the troops are deployed then brought back to the country by periods). The subject is particularly localized, considering that the accompaniment of the soldiers returning from the front is a real debate of society in the United States.

Still in service, Merrick shouldn’t get his own Cap‘. Its history will be discovered in detail in The United States of Captain America #5 in October 2021.

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