Peggy Carter – she didn’t break many hearts, but definitely broke many legs.

Since the cancellation of Agent Carter on ABC (and its mysterious lack of availability on DVD), I have missed Peggy and her adventures, not to mention the show’s feminist approach to the Marvel Universe and the 1940s.

Thankfully I recently came across the comic Agent Carter: Operation S.I.N. After being in retirement from S.H.I.E.L.D., Peggy is thrown back into adventure after Howard Stark tricks her by sending an agent to attack her at home. Peggy and Stark fly to Moscow where they meet two informants and learn about another adversary that continues to be a badly used plot piece in the MCU – Hydra. 

Hydra has enslaved Russian scientists and engineers for nefarious purposes. This could be easily taken down, if not for Howard Stark and his wondrous inventions. Of course, Stark has a piece of alien technology that not only presents a hologram of an alien ship, but also turns out to be a homing beacon for a real alien ship using similar technology to that which Hydra is using.

Not being a regular Marvel comics reader (aside from present-day characters like Howard the Duck and Squirrel Girl), I was not familiar with the versions of characters in this book. I originally picked up the book after seeing the cover with Haley Atwell’s portrayal of the character on the cover. Inside, however, were 616 versions of the characters and storylines. While this made the sight of a blonde, American Peggy a bit distracting, the story was easy to jump into.

Until the next possible Marvel historical drama comes around, Operation S.I.N. is a great return to Peggy Carter’s time with S.H.I.E.L.D. and Howard Stark.