Captain Carter #2 continues her mission to take on Hydra, there is a surprise villain, and more complications and action! Captain Carter breaks out of the MCU with the new series by Jamie McKelvie and Markia Cresta! She is freed from the ice and returns to London. There is her neighbor, Harley, and also Peggy Carter joins S.T.R.I.K.E. with an assistant in Lizzie Braddock. A bus crashes and Captain Carter goes into hero mode against Hydra agents! The issue 2 cover by McKelvie has Captain Carter throwing her shield as Lizzie is at her side with her gun! It picks up with another collage of headlines of Captain Carter’s return. A series of panels shows a television broadcast with an interview of PM Williams. He defends S.T.R.I.K.E. over criticisms with the battle against Hydra. The host interrupts him to break the news about the Eastpark Shopping Centre attack. The shield crashes into the television screen, Captain Carter partially seen plucks up the shield before an energy blast shatters the television!
In a large panel, Hydra agents open fire with energy weapons that Captain Carter identifies as Baron Von Strucker’s tech. She dodges another blast that strikes the Stark Industries shop. The Hydra rifleman fires again and we see Captain Carter flipping over the blast, and she is seen in a ghostly form in motion. Nice work by colorist Erick Arciniega, but also we have an artistic depiction of a moving figure rather than snapshots of the flip. She lands on the rifleman and the other cries out, “Hail Hydra!” Then, he is shocked soundlessly screaming and falls as we have Lizzie Braddock with her smoking pistol. S.T.R.I.K.E. agents take the mall hooligans into custody. We move to the headquarters with an overhead shot of an office with cubicles. We have Peggy Carter not able to find a trace of the Hydra connections even after stopping Baron Von Strucker, not Red Skull of the MCU.
Agent Braddock is frustrated and would rather have remained in the UK division of S.H.I.E.L.D. An agent brings in the latest headline, but Peggy is frustrated that she is given sole credit. Chief Hunter interrupts them and informs Carter and Braddock about a shipment that may be Hydra weapons. Carter questions who gathered the intelligence, but the chief keeps that a secret. Two agents gossip about Braddock getting preference because of her father. In the comics, her father, Sir James Braddock, died in Captain Britain #14 (1977). Lizzie walks away annoyed and they see their team including a happy, young agent, Collins, and a bored looking woman in a chair with a half moon necklace. They take a helicopter to Immingham Dock on the east coast of England. They are observing from the top of the crate with a leader, Georges Batroc. He was in The Falcon and the Winter Soldier and the What If…? episode, “The Watcher Broke His Oath” (2021).
The S.T.R.I.K.E. team drops in and it becomes a gunfight. Strangely, Captain Carter doesn’t throw the shield knocking down several of the gunmen. Batroc tries to slip away as his men are captured and of course faces Captain Carter. They start to fight and he says the shield gives her advantage. She throws away the shield while Batroc draws a knife. Of course, the shield bounces off a container and knocks out Batroc! Clever with a comic book move. Peggy takes in Batroc and then hears crying. She opens a container door to find it filled with refugees. Collins says Border Force will process them. Agent Braddock is surprised that Chief Hunter didn’t realize that the mission had nothing to do with Hydra. Captain Carter yawns needing sleep. A photographer is taking pictures. I have no idea why he would risk an active gun battle. The next day, we have Peggy moving from her flat. She sees Harley who is angry at her for allowing the Border Force to take the refugees.
Her fellow neighbors argue that this will only result in detaining and deporting the refugees. Topical, but it is two pages of political arguments. Harley offers to get her updated apart from the official version. Peggy can’t get answers from Hunter so she enters the office of PM Williams to be angry over being used for propaganda. The Bobbies of the Thin Blue Line are there, but Williams says he only wants to talk and sends them out. Peggy feels used for a mission outside of Hydra. She doesn’t resign and neither does Agent Braddock. This betrayal is something like what Rogers encountered in Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014)? Is PM Williams saying, “Hail Hydra”? Once this informal meeting is over Williams makes a call to deal with them. Carter and Braddock are walking and Lizzie admits that the PM was bringing up something from her past. Her parents died ten years ago and her brother, Brian, is still missing. Maybe he is in the Otherworld becoming Captain Britain? Captain Carter #2 complicates her mission to take on Hydra with more back story on Lizzie Braddock and more action by this duo!
Four Shields out of Five!
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