New Captain America Beats Up Conservatives

Saturday, October 24th, 2015

With all the nuance of a comic book, the Marvel team has replaced Captain America with a new, black Captain American who beats up conservatives:

The Fox & Friends team plays its established role:

Naturally the io9 team describes this as people getting mad that the new Captain America is acting like Captain America:

Is it political? Of course it is. It’s what Captain America as a character has been like since his creation. Like I mentioned, in his first appearance, he punched a goddamn fascist in the face. From then on, it’s been the same.

(Hat tip to our Slovenian guest.)

Comments

  1. T. Greer says:

    No one reads comic books these days. Even among nerds the popularity of comic books is minuscule. Cultural impact of this is nil.

  2. Hoyos says:

    Comic books are the American mythos, and Captain America is a big part of that.

    Doesn’t matter what the press says. Doesn’t matter what the politicians or the mobs say. Doesn’t matter if the whole country decides that something wrong is something right. This nation was founded on one principle above all else: the requirement that we stand up for what we believe, no matter the odds or the consequences. When the mob and the press and the whole world tell you to move, your job is to plant yourself like a tree beside the river of truth, and tell the whole world — “No, you move.”

    That’s the real Captain America, the kid from Brooklyn, the God, Mom, and Apple Pie representation of what is good in this country.

  3. Alrenous says:

    Have to agree with io9 here. Antifa are leftists.

    However, at least old Cap was us vs. them instead of US vs. US.

  4. Bomag says:

    I’ve mostly rooted for the Bad Guys in comics, so I’m in good shape here.

    Io9 touts that Cap’n is for the, ahem, “little guy”. Looks more like he is a tool of the propagandists from big business and gov’t who like them some illegal immigrants.

  5. Slovenian Guest says:

    The sad part is how liberals really do have a comic book villain view of everyone to the right.

  6. T. Greer says:

    Comic books are the American mythos,

    Please. Comic books have not been mass entertainment since the 1960s. If you had polled Americans in 2005 with the question “what is the super hero name of Steve Rogers?” less than 10% would have known the answer. Probably less than 2%.

  7. Captain Anonymous says:

    I would agree. I would say, further: comic books are a dying form. And they’ve always been a particularly clumsy, ham-handed kind of agitprop, having been created and written by the Usual Suspects going all the way back to their Depression-era origins.

    Who reads comic books? Nerdy white kids. No one else, despite decades, nay, generations of the comic book publishers pushing “diversity” and “political correctness” in an attempt to get black kids to buy comic books. Whites are now a dwindling minority in American public schools in many states. Marvel and DC and all the rest will go out of business long, long before the last white people die, though.

  8. Isegoria says:

    This talk about how nobody reads comic books reminds me of Brian Eno’s remark about the Velvet Underground‘s debut album: while the album sold only 30,000 copies in its early years, “everyone who bought one of those 30,000 copies started a band.”

  9. Thales says:

    AIACC.

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