CAPTAIN AMERICA #402-408 (1992): Capwolf
This is awful. I mean really, really awful. And yet…It’s also fantastic. It’s all the reasons comics are better than movies: They can tell over-the-top, stupid stories and go completely nuts with them.
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“The one where Captain America becomes a werewolf.”
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It’s also the one that rebooted Doctor Druid. So…Two reasons never to read these issues.
The tale starts with Wolverine hunting a werewolf and John Jameson (formerly Man Wolf) having gone missing. We then meet a new character…
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Sigh. A werewolf hunter called Moon Hunter. Not only does his name not make sense, but we already have a moon-themed werewolf hunter, and you can’t tell me Moon Knight is too busy to join this story when Wolverine is in it and is also in no less than a dozen other comics in the same month.
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But I guess Moon Knight doesn’t have armored underoos.
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Now, about that Doc Druid reboot…
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Somehow, he’s younger and has a lot more hair.
Wolverine meets Moon Hunter.
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And really??? He can defeat Wolverine????
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So Moon hunter is working for Nightshade, and she can mind-control Wolverine.
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She also dresses in an S and M outfit now.
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And so Cap is captured too.
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And I’m sure you know what comes next….
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Bondage! Good thing she’s got that black leather costume now!
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Cap is transformed. He meet other mutated werewolves.
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And learns to speak werewolf. From Wolfsbane. I know that the below pic doesn’t look like her, but it is her.
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Rahne being prisoner means we get a few panels of Cable and Shatterstar. But they don’t get involved.
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Meanwhile, Dr. Druid tries to figure out how to help…And meets Druid!
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Druid has the moon gem that changed John Jameson into Man Wolf, and he’s been mind-controlling Nightshade as well. I don’t really understand why he needs to work through Nightshade, but apparently he does. So she’s not the villain we thought she was. I wonder if he also got her to dress up like a femdom?
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Nightshade puts him in a cage with the other werewolves and he becomes their Moses, rallying them to fight for freedom.
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They get free and they go to rescue Dr. Druid, only to find that Dredmund Druid has accessed cosmic werewolf power.
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Cosmic werewolf. Is this worse than black Punisher? Better? Bad and good for all the same reasons?
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All this AND an Infinity War tie-in when Cap’s Magus doppleganger shows up for a bit.
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Cable and Feral show up at the end to help with the big finale.
And in the conclusion, in a bizarre piece of Gruenwald randomness, Jack “Werewolf by Night” Russell drives off riding bitch behind Wolf from Team America!
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Cap has to recover from all this. I mean, it was a lot to go through in six issue.
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But at least it ends with Falcon and Cap being a duo again.
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In the backups, Diamondback is still being held by Crossbones and no one cares. D-Man fights his Infinity War doppleganger and no one cares.
And Mother Night and Crossbones seem to … Getting it on?
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