User blog:Skyrocket/Red, White and Noir

I finally got around to reading X-Men Noir the other day. All in all I liked it better than Spider-Man Noir. The tone was even darker and the ending was an honest surprise. Very much worth picking up.

Anyway, this got me to thinking about how Noir versions of other Marvel books might be. The first one that came to mind was Captain America. IMO Cap is the perfect guy for a noir book. He's from the time when noir draws a lot of its inspiration, he's spent plenty of time in France, another major noir influence and most of all he's a very morally black and white person. People like that always struggle the most in noir stories. When all his choices are morally grey what does a man like Captain America do?

Add in the more brutal, if pragmatic, take on Bucky and you've got gold waiting to happen. It could even be set on Earth 616, but I think the freedom of an AU would be better as it wouldn't be bound by the chains of continuity.