Welcome to the first edition of CON JOB, a new rotating feature in which we take the latest news from conventions with a bucket of salt. Let’s start with . . .

The first big news that struck me was that Jeph Loeb will be re-teaming with his long-time collaborator Tim Sale for a fourth “color” book for Marvel, entitled Captain America: White.

I’m not entirely sure, but I think it’s the never-before-revealed story of how Captain America and Bucky Barnes were secretly married the night before their final mission near the end of World War II.

Loeb’s always seemed to do his best work (that is, his least-awful work) when paired with Sale, so perhaps this will yield some good results. I’m not holding my breath though; some of their more recent work—including their Catwoman series and Spider-Man: Blue—has been pretty bad. But, in both cases, Loeb did afford Sale plenty of opportunities to draw plenty of characters. At the very least, the art should be nice and, if Loeb sticks true to recent form, he’ll take a “greatest hits” approach to the cast, and we’ll get to see Sale’s take on every Captain America character ever.

Here’s hoping Batroc the Leaper and The Falcon make it in somehow…

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