Captain America Gets Carlos Pacheco in September

The second arc of Rick Remender's Marvel NOW!-reinvented Captain America will kick off in September with a new artist in the form of former Superman and X-Men artist Carlos Pacheco, CBR reported today. The story will see Captain America, now back on Earth and without any glowing supervillains in his belly (one assumes), chasing down a renegade super-soldier called Nuke--and the introduction of the mysterious Weapon Minus Program. "Tom Brevoort and I worked hard to find a new angle for Nuke. He is sort of a Captain America of a different era who was abused and his mind was shattered. So he's still a soldier and a patriot, but he's absolutely lost the plot. His mind is so fried and he's been through so many experiments and taken so many of these drugs that give him all of his strength," Remender explained. "He's almost like a Captain America from the Iran-Contra era; a time when the government was doing things that they maybe shouldn't have been. He was a victim of that. I like playing with the patriot who is misguided, but at the same time truly believes that the mission he is on is a sound one. In Nuke's case, the mission that he's on is to win all of the wars that it seems that America lost or walked away from in disgrace. Of course, there's something deeper to that, and we're going to find out who's pulling the strings on Nuke and what's going on in the background. The first stage, though, is that Nuke is out there and he is reigniting long-dormant conflicts in the name of the United States, which doesn't go over well and draws in Captain America." The story begins in September, so check back for more as it draws closer.