[Startaiger]

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Originally Posted by Jeddostotle7

No, I know in-universe that it's a change in reality, but when the comic first came out, Nick Spencer and Marvel were trying to frame it as a retcon, like it had always been that way, and that it would stay this way for the forseeable future.

And what do you mean, "it's a bit early"? This change happened 8 months ago!

It's a bit early because it's still going, we haven't seen the whole story yet. Until the resolution of the story line, neither you or I can tell if it's good or bad.

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Tell me that the whole concept of, for his big 75th anniversary, Steve Rogers (a character created by two Jewish men to fight Nazis, to be inherently anti-Nazi)'s return to the mantle of Captain America, making him turn out to be a member of Hydra (specifically a Hydra that was rebuilding itself in a way similar to the recent resurgence in white supremacist and Neo-Nazi groups) not just as an out of nowhere twist, but as (as they were claiming it was at the time) a full-on retcon of his history - that he'd always been Hydra, that he'd always secretly been a Nazi - isn't at least a monumentally stupid idea, if not horrendously disrespectful to his creators and legacy.

I understand turning Cap into the antithesis of what he stands for could be shocking, but that's an intersting story plot IMO, & seeing how he will overcome it (cause we all know he will, Marvel will never let Cap remains a facist) will reinforce the character stature as America's (& humanity at large) sentinel of liberty.
Now, what I think is interesting in the story is the questioning about how even the purest person could be "twisted" into something else by the authority above him (parental, political, religious, societal). Steve, in the story, remains the same person "at heart", but is misguided by Hydra to make him a facist, that specialy shows in issue #6, with the discussion between young Steve & Kraken.