American comics: I drew Superman during the Great Depression

“3, 2, 1, CUT!”

The fire scene with thick smoke was over as the cameraman spoke.

“Huh~”

Colin, who had been frozen in front of the camera, breathed a sigh of relief. He reached out and patted his face, which was stiff because of the long-term serious expression, and asked the cameraman in front of him.

“How is it?”

“I think it’s good.”

Putting down the heavy camera on his shoulder, the cameraman Smith with a thick beard shrugged and replied nonchalantly: “You are too nervous, Colin. This is just an ordinary fire news report. Similar news events happen several times a day in New York City. There is no need to pay too much attention to it.”

“Maybe you are right, Smith.”

Hearing the somewhat perfunctory comfort from the cameraman Smith, Colin’s originally uneasy mood was unexpectedly relieved a little.

Turning his head to look at the fire behind him that was gradually under control, and the emotional people around him, the expression on Colin’s face was involuntarily a little dazed.

Less than a week after arriving in this world, Zhou Cheng, or Colin, is trying to adapt to his new identity and the seemingly superhero world he is in.

…

"Hey, Colin, Colin..."

At this moment, the voice of the cameraman sounded, accompanied by the urgent sound of the car horn, pulling Colin back from his trance.

When he came to his senses, he saw that Smith, who was originally on the opposite side, had returned to the live broadcast car without knowing when, and honked the horn to urge him to get in the car.

"Come up quickly, the newspaper just called and said that there was a police car chase in the 12th block, and asked us to rush to the scene to shoot first-hand news reports. Damn it, it happened at this time. I should have taken more pictures of the scene when reporting the fire news just now, and delayed the time..."

Rolling down the window, cameraman Smith poked his head out of the driver's seat and complained with a dark face.

Reporters who are assigned to the frontline by news agencies are often either veterans or rookies. The former have connections to get exclusive news, while the latter have plenty of time to be used and arranged at will.

Judging from Colin's performance, he is undoubtedly the latter.

In fact, it is precisely because of this that Colin's various low-level mistakes in work at the beginning of the journey did not arouse too much suspicion, allowing him to successfully survive the initial chaos and difficult life with the identity of a rookie reporter.

"Okay, right away."

He shook his head and suppressed the thoughts that emerged in his mind.

Colin took a deep breath, held the microphone with the logo of the "Clarion Daily" in his hand, and trotted all the way to the co-pilot seat of the live broadcast car driven by the cameraman.

...

The news report on the vehicle chase incident ended in failure as expected.

By the time Colin and the cameraman arrived, the police had completed the arrest and drove away in the police car in front of them.

"Damn, another wasted trip."

Smith, who was sitting in the car, couldn't help but slap the steering wheel and cursed after seeing the police car leaving all the way.

In the driver's seat, the bearded cameraman Smith complained habitually, while Colin, who was sitting in the passenger seat, had already been attracted by the advertisement on the big screen in the square.

"...with cutting-edge biotechnology capabilities...we are at the forefront to protect your health and safety. HYDRA biotechnology will always be by your side to solve all your troubles. HailHydra, the perfect guardian..."

In the advertisement, the skull octopus representing the Hydra logo appeared on the screen in the square.

Giving people an inexplicable sense of absurdity.

However, for everything that happened before their eyes, except Colin himself, no one in the entire square felt strange.

This naturally included the cameraman Smith who was sitting in the driver's seat.

After all, for the people in this world, Hydra is just a multinational company specializing in biotechnology research, not the notorious Hydra organization during World War II. Even HailHydra, which was originally a slogan used by Hydra to brainwash people, has become the slogan used by Hydra Biotechnology on the square screen.

Such existence does not only happen on the big screen in the square.

In fact, since Colin came to this world, he knew that the more he knew, the more confused he felt.

Everything that happened in this world is very different from the superhero world he remembered. In the history of this world, Tony Stark died in a car accident as early as the 1990s. Yes, it was the car accident that killed Howard and Maria.

However, this time it was not only Stark's parents who died, but also Iron Man himself.

From the newspapers that Colin found at the time, it can be vaguely known that the family of three seemed to be invited to attend a special event and travel together, but unfortunately died on the way to the event site.

After losing Howard Stark and his successor Tony Stark, Stark Industries, founded by Howard Stark, quickly declined. Although during this period, Obadiah Staney, Howard's former deputy, tried to take over the management of Stark Industries, he was ultimately unable to stop the company's decline.

The last news report Colin saw about Stark Industries in the media was the news that it was acquired by Hydra Biotechnology two years ago and became one of its subsidiaries. It will be difficult to find reports related to it after that. .

The death of Tony Stark made Colin clearly realize that he was in a completely different superhero world from the one he knew in his memory, a superhero world without Iron Man.

In fact, Iron Man Tony Stark is not the only one who has disappeared.

S.H.I.E.L.D., Captain America, and the Avengers, everything Colin was familiar with, no longer exist.

Instead, it was the Thunder Agents.

A registered, 'legal' superhero group affiliated with the federal government.

In this team, there are both Luke Cage and superheroes like Iron Fist that Colin knows, as well as super villains like Crossbones and Bullseye. In Colin's memory, there are two sides that should be irreconcilable. , but now they have become superheroes working together as a team in this world.

In addition to the people mentioned above.

Black Widow Natasha is also a member of the Thunderbolts.

Obviously, in a world that has lost the Avengers.

The super agent still found his place.

He became a member of the superhero team Thunder Agents, hunting down those unregistered superhuman criminals without government permission in the United States.