U.S. Agent: American Zealot

• Creative Team: Written by Christopher Priest, illustrated by Georges Jeanty, inked by Karl Story, and colored by Matt Milla. The striking cover art is by Marco Checchetto.

• Publication Date: June 22, 2021.

• Page Count: 112 pages.

• ISBN-13: 978-1302924768.

• Issues Collected: U.S.Agent (Vol. 2) #1–5.

Story Synopsis

The plot follows John Walker, the former Super-Patriot and one-time Captain America, who has been stripped of his official military status. Now operating as an independent, privatized government contractor, his routine security assignments pull him into a deep corporate conspiracy.

The narrative is structured as a political satire and morality play. Walker gets deployed to a struggling mining town in Ephraim, West Virginia, to guard a decommissioned S.H.I.E.L.D. facility. There, he faces off against his estranged sister (Kate Walker), a corrupted corporate giant, and a ruthless, wealthy replacement "U.S. Agent" named April Manning, who bought his way into the title to secure a toxic super-soldier serum