A Sense of Doubt blog post #2336 - CAPTAIN AMERICA'S DREAM and other inconvenient truths of JUSTICE and TRUTH
Welcome to Comic Book Sunday, published late on the following Wednesday because I have been so busy.
A Sense of Doubt blog post #2334 - Captain America would not tolerate your bullshit!
It includes the first article from THE MARY SUE and BLEEDING COOL concerning the conservative, propaganda network's attempt to "cancel" Captain America, by which I mean FOX "News." Yes, I have "news" in quotes for the reason you may think I do.
Now WONKETTE has weighed in with an excellent article by my neighbor -- more or less because he lives in Portland and I want to be his best friend -- Stephen Robinson known on Twitter as @SER1897.
I added another blog entry from the KOTTKE, one of the web's most famous blogs, and my actual good friend George Gene Gustines with his mini-history of the good Captain published in the esteemed New York Times.
It seems that the reactionary, we're-so-afraid-of-everything conservative culture police that is now the majority of republicans and their networks of misinformation, lies, and pandering to Trump.
In other words, Captain America HAS ALWAYS BEEN WOKE. This is not a new thing.
In fact, the recent comic that has these talking heads of division, misinformation, and hate that call themselves "the Right" (a funny, not funny misnomer as there is little "right" about these people or their ideology), The United States of Captain America is a special series to introduce a new Captain America, a young, homeless, gay kid. Not that the talking morons of Fox and Friends read that far in the comic before they started screaming "cancel the woke Captain America."
And even so, what they are freaking out about, the fact that he calls the American Dream a lie, is actually true if these halfwits would just stop and think about it for a second, or is the history of slavery and racism just an illusion, or is the plight of immigrants from south of the border just a fiction, or are all these homeless people with their tents and piles of useful trash in every free space around Portland here just a protest by some woke capitalists who want to live off the grid?
Can we be serious for a minute and use our brains?
No, not on Fox "News." Brains are not allowed on that network, except maybe Chris Wallace, sometimes.
And so, here's some content. First, the really good WONKETTE article by SER, then the Kottke and NY Times stuff, then my reprint of my Captain America post from the T-Shirts blog and then reprinted in SENSE OF DOUBT in 2018, after I retired the DAILY HEY MOM.
At the end, I am adding on a new cover gallery of Captain America goodness.
Thanks for tuning in!
https://www.wonkette.com/captain-americas-dream-has-always-been-the-conservative-nightmare
Conservatives are still upset that Captain America isn't one of them. However, Captain America is fictional and unlike modern conservatives, he has character. Steve Rogers questions "the American Dream" in the new mini-series "The United States of Captain America," and the very concept disturbs conservatives who haven't read the book or apparently any Captain America stories from the past 60 years.
Rogers, who literally fought Nazis, is wary of "the white picket fence fallacy that, if we're not careful becomes nationalism, jingoism." He states:
That dream isn't real. It never was. Because that dream doesn't get along nicely with reality, other cultures, immigrants, the poor. The suffering people easily come to be seen as “different" or “unAmerican." The white picket fence becomes a gate to keep others out. We're our best when we keep no one out. A good dream is shared. Shared radically. Shared with everyone. When something isn't shared it can become the American lie.
Republicans predictably responded as if Steve said all this in Chinese while burning a flag. Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton said Cap deserved a "demotion to lieutenant for that speech," which Fox News anchors shared with him during an outrage segment.
CAPTAIN AMERICA No. 130
This demonstrates a significant yet not surprising lack of critical reading skills. Captain America doesn't believe “nationalism" and “jingoism" are true patriotism. As someone other than Thomas Jefferson said, “the price of liberty is eternal vigilance." That doesn't mean joining a militia or storming the Capitol but not becoming complacent about America's supposed greatness. It's common for conservatives to say, “America isn't perfect but it's the greatest nation in the world." That's hardly inspirational. It looks down at other nations while never looking inward or trying to improve.
Dean Cain, who's officially the worst actor to play Superman on screen, decided to criticize the superhero who's actually had some successful movies lately. Friday, on Fox News (of course), he said:
You know, I love Captain America; I love the concept of Captain America, but I am so tired of all of this wokeness and anti-Americanism. You know, we just celebrated our 245th birthday. In my opinion, America is the greatest country in history. It's not perfect; we are constantly striving for a more perfect union, as we all know, but I believe she's the most fair, equitable country ever, with more opportunity than anyone's ever seen.
You'll notice that only conservatives are apparently allowed to express concern about the direction of the country. They don't take this “love it or leave it approach" when complaining that they saw a homeless person at Starbucks. Cain claims that he regularly travels to "other countries where they have to deal with governments who aren't anywhere near as fair as the United States" and he kisses the soil when he returns. That's probably quite the scene at customs. He must have a terrible travel agent or he's deliberately visiting some of the places America has bombed into freedom.
As I've written elsewhere, Steve Rogers is the idealized symbol of the American dream. His country took a frail, sickly kid from Brooklyn and enabled him to reach his full potential. But Captain America has always been a thoughtful liberal patriot (yes, such a thing is possible). He loves America enough to "criticize her perpetually," like a costumed James Baldwin.
DAREDEVIL No. 283
In 1990's Daredevil No. 283, literally called “The American Nightmare," Cap goes full Occupy Wall Street, decrying "the gap between the rich and the poor." Sure, he might've won the super soldier lottery but he didn't think that made America perfect. He tells Daredevil, "In New York, it's like a third world country living at the feet of elite corporate kings."
In Berlin, Poland, even the Soviet Union — people are making demands and being heard. The world is changing but America will be the last to change.
During Mark Gruenwald's 10-year run on Captain America, the government once demanded that Steve Rogers serve as its loyal mascot. He refused and was replaced by the very MAGA-esque John Walker. This was all a scheme by Cap's arch-nemesis, the Red Skull, who you can imagine secretly phoning Cotton and praising him for the "demotion to lieutenant" line.
CAPTAIN AMERICA No. 332
An issue of What If? from 1977 imagines a world where America has succumbed to the jingoism and bigotry that conservatives consider "patriotism." There's a WALL in Harlem to keep the undesirables in their place. Immigrants aren't welcome. There's no free press or even what we have now. America is a police state, and yes, that's a bad thing.
Captain America fights an evil version of himself, who represents this twisted America, and a victorious Cap delivers an awesome and shockingly prescient speech.
Listen to me — all of you out there! You were told by this man — your hero — that America is the greatest country in the world! He told you that Americans were the greatest people — that America could be refined like silver, could have the impurities hammered out of it, and shine more brightly! He went on about how precious America was — how you needed to make sure it remained great! And he told you anything was justified to preserve that great treasure, that pearl of great price that is America!
Well, I saw America is nothing! Without its ideals — its commitment to the freedom of all men, America is a piece of trash! A nation is nothing! A flag is a piece of cloth!
I fought Adolf Hitler not because America was great, but because it was fragile! I knew that liberty could as easily be snuffed out here as in Nazi Germany! As a people, we were no different from them! When I returned, I saw that you nearly did turn America into nothing! And the only reason you're not less than nothing — is that it's still possible for you to bring freedom back to America!
Steve Rogers dares to dream of a better America. That's what makes him Captain America. In 1984's Captain America No. 298, the Red Skull says he finds Rogers "perplexing," as the Nazi white supremacist can't fathom why someone so "superior" would willingly surround himself with "trash" like his then girlfriend, Bernie Rosenthal (a Jew), his Black partner Sam Wilson, and perhaps worst of all in the Skull's eyes, Arnie Roth, Steve's childhood friend who was openly gay. He accuses Cap of what conservatives would now call "virtue signaling." The worst people will always condemn a good man like Steve Rogers as being too "woke." But as he told General Ross in Avengers: Infinity War: “I'm not looking for forgiveness, and I'm way past asking for permission."
So say we all, Cap.
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Captain America: 80 Years in 8 Stories
Captain America, one of Marvel’s flagship heroes, turns 80 on Dec. 20. The hero — Steve Rogers, as transformed by experimental serum into a U.S. super agent — was created by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby in response to World War II.
Check out how he’s changed with the times →
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| “Old Country,” by Robyn Kenealy. Image via Tumblr. |
https://kottke.org/17/10/the-sad-humanity-of-american-captain-the-best-anti-superhero-comic-about-superheroes
The sad humanity of American Captain, the best anti-superhero comic about superheroes
My favorite webcomic doesn’t exist on the web anymore, except by way of the Wayback Machine. Robyn Kenealy created something beautiful and delicate with “Steve Rogers’s American Captain,” an indie-style diary comic written and drawn by the Marvel movie version of Captain America.
My own belief is that love works a little like a network. Your point of contact opens up a whole universe of experiences and emotions old and new. It begins with points of commonality, known and shared data. At that point it can either exhaust the known nodes or build into something deeper, more branching, more interconnected. Fictional worlds play off of our ability to imagine and project those deeper connections. In the end, those connections give us something that we didn’t have before: new ideas, new experiences, new connections, even new people. Love is both the cause and the symptom of the enlargement of our world.
“American Captain” is a great example of this. It starts with common ground. Paradoxically, that common ground is the fantastic world of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, especially the first wave of films: Iron Man, Thor, Captain America, and The Avengers. We know those events and characters. At least we think we do.
“American Captain” gives us Steve Rogers (and to a lesser extent his peers) struggling with downtime, professional frustration, 21st century confusion, and post-traumatic stress. We look through the keyhole of the summer blockbuster and find the muted lifeworld of a sickly kid, now a grown man who can bench-press a car, but can’t figure out online banking. He’s the character who is both most and least like the reader, out of place in every room he enters.
Steve is racked with guilt: not over losing Bucky, like he always is in the comics, but for not being able to protect his mother from his alcoholic father. For leaving the comm on so Sharon Carter could hear his plane crash. For forgetting to return The Hobbit to the NYPL before he was frozen in the ice. He’s thrilled to discover there’s a new Hobbit movie, but panics at the flame and explosions in the theater. He argues, sometimes passive-aggressively and sometimes aggressively, with everyone, including Nick Fury and Bruce Banner. He is marching, in kindness and honor, to his own destruction.
What I find most relatable in “American Captain“‘s Steve is a trait you don’t see much in the movies, especially before Winter Soldier and Civil War: his anger. Bruce Banner has nothing on Steve; neither does Harvey Pekar. Steve is angry at everyone. He has great moments of joy, and he’s quite funny, but for the most part, he’s inwardly seething. His main nemesis is Tony Stark, who delights in trolling him. (The dialogue Kenealy writes for Tony is spot-on, entirely consistent with the Robert Downey Jr. character yet somehow simultaneously older, sadder, and more juvenile.)
Steve strikes up a friendship with Pepper Potts — likewise finally acting her age — and when he finds out Tony has been drunk-texting Pepper, he confronts him. With Pepper, Steve makes it clear that he’s willing to fight Tony, suit and all, if the behavior doesn’t stop. Pepper, who’s seen Steve in the middle of an angry post-traumatic panic attack, is rightfully terrified.
Pepper reminds Steve that the fact that he can beat up a man wearing a tank always stands between them. She relates to Steve the way the other heroes relate to the Hulk. He has unpredictable, unbridled power that forces her to constantly adjust for his presence. Even though she likes him. Even though he’s a good guy. No one that powerful can ever be good enough to not be dangerous.
It’s something I’ve been thinking about a lot in the wake of #MeToo, but well before that. To promise a woman that you would throw her abuser from a window — which I have said, and thought and promised to mutual friends many more times than I have said directly — is not a comforting idea for most people. It’s a reminder that they exist in a world whose contours are shaped by male power, anger, and physical strength, where even friends and allies can be dangerously unpredictable. Sonny Corleone is not a role model, for so very many reasons.
Steve Rogers is a better one, but far from perfect. But I think that’s part of why he works.
S.I. Rosenbaum is a writer, editor, comics artist, and Bollywood fan from Boston, now based in New York, who works dozens of places making stories and sentences better behind the scenes. (She should really have been snatched-up by a magazine or website in the city full-time by now; get it together, people.) Anyways, S.I. and I are both big fans of American Captain, and we got to geek out about it together recently. Here’s some of what she had to say.
The thing that was genius about it (to me) was the conceit that Steve Rogers was drawing it. In classic superhero comics, the art functions as a sort of omniscient third-person impersonal narrator. The art isn’t supposed to have a point of view. We get internal monologues — do we ever — but the art is looking from outside, most of the time. But because of “American Captain“‘s conceit as a webcomic DRAWN by Captain America, the art as WELL as the words became first-person. Early on in the strip, Steve “draws” himself as skinny and it’s not just that the webcomic artist has a style; Steve still sees himself as a little guy.
This made me realize: in the world of “American Captain,” superhero comics don’t exist. Neither do superhero movies or television shows. There are paintings, commercial and conceptual art, and comics like American Splendor, Dykes to Watch Out For, and Maus. Steve doesn’t have a template for understanding who he is as a superhero. He has one for understanding himself as Steve Rogers. I love superhero comics, TV, and movies, but a world without them is probably in some ways a better one.
A Sense of Doubt blog post #1290 - Captain America for Labor Day - T-shirt reprint
Normally, this is a HEY MOM reprint, but I am foregoing that feature today for a T-shirt reprint with a mention, a connection, to my mother.
I was going to save this re-post for Labor Day, but today is close enough. I am working on some original content that I want to post, so I am shifting things around. I may do a very simple Musical Monday tomorrow and then post my original content Tuesday and Wednesday, one is a trip report example for my Concordia students.
Today is dedicated to Captain America.
I like the banner photo I added up top. The image shows an unmasked Captain America looking down on a shameful and regrettable situation, much like the state of our country.
It's shameful.
Five years ago, on July Fifth, I created this post.
Two years later, minus a day, my mother passed away.
This time association is not all that significant, but it helps my perspective.
None of that really relates to Captain America.
I really like Cap, even though he would not make a top ten favorite heroes in my book. But I love the history of Captain America comics, some of which is shared here.
Some great artists featured and I cannot even list them all, but there's Kirby (of course): Jack the King Kirby, Steranko, Steve Epting, John Cassady, Alex Ross, Gene Colan, Sal Buscema, John Romita, Chris Samnee,
I added new art content at the end.
If you didn't know this about me already, I love looking at comic book art.
RESOURCE: COMIC VINE - CAPTAIN AMERICA
from - http://365-tshirts.blogspot.com/2013/07/t-shirt-106-captain-america.html
T-shirt #106 - Captain America, Jack Kirby, and KUDL costume nightAs promised, I present Captain America. If only I could find the shirt, which may be packed away at my parents' house. On today's blog, you will see pictures of me wearing the shirt in 2007 at the Kalamazoo Ultimate Disc League (KUDL) costume night.
The subject of KUDL costume night (which this season will be observed on July 15th) would be enough for an entry, especially with these wacky pictures. However, I am dressed as Captain America (at least with just the shirt), and so today's subject will be devoted to the most patriotic of heroes, though I promise to keep it relatively short as I went a bit nuts with yesterday's entry.
In terms of page length, this one is going to be long, but there's more pictures and links than text.
THE CAPTAIN AMERICA SHIRT
I think I have only worn the Captain America shirt three times: once around the house after I bought it and twice playing Ultimate, once at costume night in 2007.
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| Dan Lipson and me - KUDL Costume Night 2007 |
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| Me with Andrew "Little" Hamilton - KUDL Costume Night 2007 ... I have no idea what we're doing... |
CAPTAIN AMERICA
I can't really say that Captain America has been one of my favorite heroes or even one of my favorite Marvel heroes. As cool as he is, and though the throwing shield thing is very cool, he would not make my top five in either category. After all, as I have established on this blog already--and will continue to establish--I am quite a bit more fond of those heroes that are not the flagship characters, such as--at Marvel--Silver Surfer, Black Panther, Doctor Strange, Iron Fist, and the Son of Satan.Though Captain America has not always been a favorite, I have not avoided him; I have read issues of Captain America avidly for most of my life.
The Marvel Comics Wikia Database: Captain America continues to be a great resource for information about comics and the history.
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| Captain America #100 |
I did not have any Avengers comics before Tales of Suspense #96 came out. My first comic of the Mighty Avengers was #63 from April of 1969. I bought Avengers Special #3, which retold Cap's origin and return to the then present of the Marvel universe and joining the Avengers when it came out in July of 1969.
I might own Captain America #100, the first issue of his own title after the cancellation of Tales of Suspense, but I do not have access to my comics here. (NOTE: Another reason to update the blog someday.) I know I have read the issue in reprint.
My next issue was Captain America #119, after Steranko's short run, and once again a story featuring the awesome GENE COLAN.
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| Art by John Cassady |
Mark Waid's run on the book followed Gruenwald, and then there was Rob Liefeld, who did what is known as Captain America Volume 2. Not much to say about that. Waid returned with Ron Garney for Volume Three in 1998, which ran fifty issues with the wrap-up by Dan Jurgens and Bob Layton in 2002. The thirty-two issue run of Volume Four began in June of 2002 with some of the most definitive work on Captain America to date by John Ney Rieber and John Cassady. Though a great creative team like that cannot produce thirty-two issues and Volume Four concludes in 2004 with a team of The Walking Dead's Robert Kirkman and Scot Eaton. This is what comics is all about. It's manufacturing. It's production month after month after month, and few can keep it up like Kirby or Gruenwald.
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| Art by Sreve Epting |
Volume Five began the era many praise today as the character's finest (next to classics by Kirby) with 50 issues by Ed Brubaker and Steve Epting. In this arc, Brubaker introduced the Winter Soldier, Cap's old sidekick Bucky, whom Cap thought had died in their final battle against the Nazis in World War II, but who survived and had been brainwashed and stored cyrogenically, thawed for assassinations when needed. These years also featured the assassination of Captain America with Bucky taking on the role of his departed comrade. In the end, Steve Rogers was not dead and he ultimately returned to the role of Captain America. The sixth volume consisted of nineteen issues; Brubaker continued as the writer, the initial issues were drawn by Steve McNiven and later by Alan Davis, Patrick Zircher, and others.
There are tons of great stories in these volumes, but I want to focus on Jack Kirby's legacy and on the recent set of issues (Volume Seven), which is an extended love letter to Jack Kirby and his ingenious contributions to the saga of his first and greatest creation:
Captain America (though credit must be given to co-creator Joe Simon, also).
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| From the Bicentennial issue? I will include this in full size at the end. |
I have created a category for Jack Kirby in the blog because he is the master and a subject I plan to return to over and over again.
I have written about Jack Kirby four times already (counting today). Most notably, I provided the basics of how badly he and his estate has been cheated in T-shirt #83: The X-Men Logo to the tune of over SEVEN billion dollars and counting. I also wrote about Jack Kirby in T-shirt #53: Agent of Shield, and T-shirt #104: Silver Surfer etc.
Two of the first comics I ever owned were drawn by Jack Kirby: Tales of Suspense #96 and Fantastic Four #69 (both published in December of 1967). I became an avid Jack Kirby fan from those very earliest days. I read Jack Kirby Fantastic Four, I read Jack Kirby Thor, I read Jack Kirby Captain America, and the Uncanny X-Men, and the Avengers, etc.
When Kirby left Marvel in 1971, I started reading his DC Comics, such as OMAC (which recently had a Kirby love letter of its own), The New Gods, Mister Miracle, Kamandi, and the most awesome Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen.When Kirby returned to Marvel, I was in full comic-buying mode and spent my money faithfully on Captain America, The Black Panther (a Kirby themed shirt will be featured in the near future in this blog), 2001: A Space Odyssey, Machine Man, Devil Dinosaur, and my personal favorite--one of my all-time most favorite comic books: The Eternals.
Kirby's late 1970s Marvel period began in January 1976 with Captain America #193 - "The Madbomb, Screamer in the Brain." I have featured art from this first and other issues later in today's blog entry. The Eternals debuted in July of 1976, and Kirby's The Black Panther started in January of 1977, by which time Kirby was cranking out 60-80 pages of art per month, including covers and maintaining (as writer, artist, and editor) four ongoing, regular titles. To use "Marvel-esque" words, this kind of output is ASTOUNDING and ASTONISHING, even UNCANNY and FANTASTIC!
LINKS ABOUT JACK KIRBY
I own a nifty coffee table style book by Mark Evanier on Kirby called Kirby: King of Comics, which won the Eisner for best comic related boom in 2009.
Kirby: King of Comics Wiki
Kirby: King of Comics Amazon
TwoMorrows Publishing - You Can't Go Home Again - Kirby Collector Twentyninth Issue
Buying Kirby Collector magazine: at TwoMorrows
Jack Kirby | Ridiculously Awesome
Jack Kirby Interview | The Comics Journal
IO9: The true story of life at Marvel Comics in the glory days of Jack Kirby and Stan Lee
The Jack Kirby Chronology: 1970-1979
The 7 Most Awesome Moments From Jack Kirby’s ‘Captain America’
Diversions of the Groovy Kind: Making a Splash: "Madbomb"--Jack Kirby's Return to Captain America and Marvel
Author of the blog at the next link, Scott Edelman worked at Marvel Comics in the 1970s during the time Kirby returned after his years at DC. Kirby was abused by the staffers during that time, and things got so bad that Stan Lee had to intercede. These anecdotes are explained in the "You Can't Go Home Again" article
linked above.
Years later, Edelman is taking more cheap shots at Kirby by criticizing this panel from Captain America #207.
Not that I consider Kirby some saint but is this kind of criticism really necessary? Seems to me that Edelman has an axe to grind and is pulling out some obscure and forgotten panel to make the point that Jack Kirby needed Stan Lee, even though many agree that Jack's solo work is some of the most brilliant comic book work ever created. Granted his dialogue, external, or internal as seen here, is often stilted, but Kirby was not trying for "realism," which is often what comics strive for anyway (lack of realism), especially in the late 1970s. I say, shame on you, Scott Edelman.
Read Edelman's comments here: Failing Better - Shame on you, Captain America!
CAPTAIN AMERICA VOL. 7
The current run of Captain America is part of the Marvel Now line issues #1 (January 2013) through issue #8 (August 2013) with one issue (#9) left in the story, which is being called "Captain America in Dimension Z." (Note dates are two months in advance as per the norm in comics.)
Written by Rick Remender
Pencils by John Romita Jr.
Inks by Klaus Janson
Colors by Dean White
SPOILER ALERT! Do not read on if you want to avoid spoilers.
This current run of Captain America comics is truly brilliant. Remender and Romita JR with Janson and Knight have synthesized what makes Kirby so great and given it all a modern look.
Like the 1970s Kirby issues, Remender chops Cap out of the current continuity, placing him in "Dimension Z," which is run by his old foe (and a Kirby creation) Arnim Zola. Cap spends TWELVE YEARS (yeah, not sure how Remender plans to deal with this plot element but he has claimed that Cap will be "forever changed" by this story line) in Dimension Z, avoiding Zola and raising Ian, a clone of Zola, who he rescued from Zola's headquarters.
Flashbacks to the childhood of Steve Rogers provide further (and new) back story for the character as present day Cap fights through the horrors of Zola's nightmare dimension with all sorts of Kirby-esque tropes, such as the costuming of Zola's daughter Jet Black, the kindly Phrox with whom Cap and Ian take refuge, and the growing Zola virus embedded in his chest (as revealed at the end of issue #3).
Issue #4 begins with a page that reads simply: "ELEVEN YEARS LATER," and at the end issue #5, after Ian has been taken by Jet Black, to be returned to Zola, Cap cuts out of his chest this growing techno-organic presence before he sets out to get his son back.
The reviews and articles do a good job explaining why Captain America Volume Seven is so great. Check them out as well as the Marvel AR videos.
REVIEWS AND ARTICLES: CAPTAIN AMERICA VOL. 7Review - Weekly Comic Book reviews - Captain America #5
Review - Figureheads.ov.pop - Captain America #6
Review - Comicosity - Captain America #6
Reviews of Remender's work - collected on Comic Hype
USATODAY: Remender gives a pulp SF edge to Captain America
NEWSARAMA: Captain America Won't be the same post-Zola War, Remender Says
Remender's "Captain America" Fights for Freedom & Family - Comic Book Resources
Rick Remender on ‘Captain America,’ ‘Devolution’ and the Desecration of Charles Xavier [Interview]
CAPTAIN AMERICA
I must give a nod to the recent movie Captain America: First Avenger (2011), which I thought was quite good and far superior to the two CBS live action films from 1979. (SIDE NOTE: The first Cap TV movie premiered on my birthday in 1979, which I thought was quite a treat until I watched it.)
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| From the Bicentennial issue? |
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| Captain America #197 - pg. 10 |
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| Captain America # 199 pg.2 |
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| Captain America 193 - 02 |
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| Captain America 193 - 03 |
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| Captain America 199 - 04 |
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| Captain America 196 - 05 |
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| Captain America 208 |
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| Captain America 214 |
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| Captain America Bicentennial? |
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| Some of my favorite (though not all) of my Kirby Captain America covers follow. |
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| art by Alex Ross |
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NEW ART CONTENT FOR SEPTEMBER SECOND 2018
This is blurry, but it's the best I have of Sharon Carter, mind controlled by Arnim Zola, shooting Captain America, though this is not the killing of Cap story line but more recent work by Rick Remender and John Romita Jr.
I have these next three comics... some of my oldest...
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Here's my new cover gallery. I am going to try to restrict myself to just a few issues from each volume, sometimes just one or two, with more from volume one's 355 issues and avoiding dupes of what I already have and may have posted in the previous cover gallery.
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- New note - On 1807.06, I ceased daily transmission of my Hey Mom feature after three years of daily conversations. I plan to continue Hey Mom posts at least twice per week but will continue to post the days since ("Days Ago") count on my blog each day. The blog entry numbering in the title has changed to reflect total Sense of Doubt posts since I began the blog on 0705.04, which include Hey Mom posts, Daily Bowie posts, and Sense of Doubt posts. Hey Mom posts will still be numbered sequentially. New Hey Mom posts will use the same format as all the other Hey Mom posts; all other posts will feature this format seen here.
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