Marvel Comics will be releasing a new storyline for Captain America this fall in which Steve Rogers is slated to step down from the superhero role.
The event will take place in Captain America No. 25 and will be the second time since 2008 that another character will be taking on the role of the shield-wielding hero, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Rogers has lost the super-soldier serum in an ongoing storyline from writer Rick Remender, and is now the 90-year-old man he would be if he weren't frozen in ice back in WWII. However, Remender said Rogers will still have an important role to play.
"He's basically orchestrating things and playing tactician, fighting against Zola, using his friends in the Avengers to try and do so," Remender said in an interview. "He's waging a war from a room rather than the front lines, which is new for Steve...He's got all of his faculties and is still the super soldier he earned the right to be called; he just lacks the physical form."
Rogers had the super soldier serum sucked out of him in a recent battle against the villain the Iron Nail, Entertainment Weekly reported.
The first character to replace Rogers as Captain America was Bucky Barnes, after Rogers was assassinated at the end of the Civil War storyline. Marvel has not yet revealed who the new Captain America will be, but the next few issues will focus on Rogers looking through a short list to find a replacement.
While the replacement is still unknown, an older Steve Rogers is shown in preview art for "Time Runs Out," an Avengers storyline scheduled to launch this September. The story is set eight months before the rest of the Marvel line, and the cover art shows a different character holding Captain America's shield, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Marvel is scheduled to release Captain America No. 25 this October, and the issue will be available digitally and in comic book stores.
