Quelques extraits de ce que Priest raconte sur la série Captain America & The Falcon
> My planned Year Two romance between Cap and The Scarlet Witch (who’d always had a crush on him, after all—I’m not making this up) had to be moved way up since events in The Avengers would be sending Wanda away for quite awhile. I was eager to participate in Avengers Disassembled because, frankly, we needed the sales bump. And a Cap-Wanda romance played nicely into Brian Bendis’s plans for the Avengers.
> I **retuned to CAF to write the series finale** ,
> compressing what had been planned as a Year Two arc called The Death of Captain America into two issues. The original idea was that Falcon would inadvertently cause Cap’s death, which would in turn set off major shock waves throughout the Marvel Universe as Marvel would have to go Three Months Without Cap. The main Cap book would deal with several Cap wannabes vying for the title, while in CAF, Sam would travel back to WWII, teaming with Cap and Bucky, in a desperate effort to change history and prevent Cap’s murder. Other events would occur in Avengers and elsewhere.
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> Tom liked the idea, but already had The Big Story idea for 2005 and, besides, Brubaker was in the main Cap chair, and my idea would be unfair to Ed and his team. I could do the four issues in CAF, but I opted not to. I mean, if CAF happens in some parallel universe where Captain America could be dead for a quarter of the year and nobody notices, what’s the point?
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> So I stripped the idea down to two basic beats: Falcon inadvertently causes Cap’s apparent death, which snaps Falcon out of Bad Guy Mode. He gets a shave, goes after the Anti-Cap, and disappears (mirroring my own sabbatical). This was designed to set up the FALCON solo book, which I would likely not be doing, but whomever took it on would start with a clean slate (to my knowledge, a FALCON book never happened, and The Falcon simply showed up again in Cap with no apparent fuss over where he’s been).
Un point de Priest sur le premier arc qui n'est pas sorti comme il l'envisageait à cause de Bart Sears.
> Complicating things even more was, initially, artist Bart Sears’ storytelling approach. Now, Bart is A Name, and his agreeing to work on CAF was greeted with elation, first and foremost by me. We have Bart to thank for CAF’s strong launch, as the book was (likely) entirely sold on Bart’s Name.
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> But many fans took an instant dislike to Bart’s style—everybody was hulking the anatomical proportions were comically extreme—and most everyone was *completely* lost by the first issue’s story, which was my fault. I’d designed a first issue where Cap seems to be acting out of character, intercut with apparent flashbacks to events leading up to this behavior. At the end of the issue, however, it is revealed that “Cap” is not the real Captain America, and that the flashbacks weren’t flashbacks at all but were cutaway sequences occurring within the same time frame.
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> That was a dicey choice on my part, but we had clear directions and time signatures inserted. A savvy reader could (and should have) realized, somewhere in the first issue, that they were looking at two different Caps.
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> Only, Bart chose a page layout design that utterly confused even the most basic storytelling and completely derailed this dicey misdirect. Ignoring instructions and warnings abut how important it was to keep the lines straight and clear, Bart chose to insert—for no apparent reason—poster-shot images of Captain American and the Falcon on most every page. Accommodating these required the other panels to be modified, reduced or eliminated altogether, making the pages *very* hard to follow. I wrote the thing and didn’t have an earthly clue what was going on.
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> The story and art so confused many readers that they dropped CAF on the spot, triggering a downward spiral from which the book never rebounded. Despite Sears’ very pretty pictures, the books was an unfathomable mess. Subsequent issues fared not much better, leading to a rushed and disappointing showdown at the Freedom Torch in Miami—an obvious homage to Steve Englehart and Sal Buscema's classic Silver Age battle between Cap and the Cap of the 1950's. You barely knew what was going on, let alone any parallels from that classic tale.
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> This was a disaster, one that completely demoralized me. Bart had only committed to four issues—another product of the new industry mindset; artists used to just love what they were doing, there wasn’t all of this deal-making and cherry-picking—and I called Tom and just begged him. If Bart wants to go, please let him go. This is simply not working. I would never give an editor an ultimatum (after all, I’m not A Name), but the subtext was the team just wasn’t working and one of us would be leaving.
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