The Daughters of Liberty stage a jailbreak in Captain America No. 11
By Alex Widen
Time for the jailbreak segment! Where is the One-Armed Man?
Ta-Nehisi Coates is under a year into his run on Captain America, and he’s already doing a “jailbreak plot.” Cap has been framed for murder by the Lukin family and their “Power Elite,” which include Selene Gallio and Kingpin. It’s not the first — or even the twelfth — time Cap has been framed for a crime by villains. He insisted that his ally and lover, Sharon Carter, try to prove his innocence with the law, not by becoming an outlaw. Unfortunately, things have gone so poorly that Carter has teamed up with her friends to throw caution to the wind.
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The “Daughters of Liberty” comprise of some of the most notable heroines in the Marvel Universe. Invisible Woman, Spider-Woman, Mockingbird, and Misty Knight are just the biggest examples. Toni Ho, granddaughter of Ho Yinsen — the man who helped Tony Stark build his first Iron Man armor — has uploaded a computer virus into the security systems of the Myrmidon. It is a for-profit prison being run by ex-Hydra boss Wolfgang Von Strucker, who has turned it into a gulag.
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Thanks in part to Thunderball (of the Wrecking Crew) acting as a mole, a jailbreak within the facility is in full swing. Despite his misgivings, Steve Rogers finds himself entrenched in battle alongside a legion of supervillains like the Wrecking Crew, Jack O’Lantern, Mandrill, Slither, and Grey Gargoyle. Rogers justifies it in his narration by indicating that no war is perfect and no army is without its share of rogues. He notes that in World War II, the Allies united with Soviet Russia against a greater evil. There was even a squad of war criminals led into battle — Combat Kelly & the Deadly Dozen!
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