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1. CAPTIN MARVEL BUSH SERIES
2. CAPTIN MARVEL BUSH FREE

CAPTIN MARVEL BUSH FREE

And it would’ve been poisonous.īut Marvel pulled off something uplifting instead: they allowed us to buy into the fantasy of the altruistic hero, one free of the usual motivators of ego and guilt and anger. The ‘Murica Fuck Yeah crowd would’ve lapped it up like red meat and the limp-wristed left-leaners such as myself would’ve appreciated the black comedy of it all.

It would’ve been easy to construct Cap as some gruesome embodiment/parody of America’s warmongering foreign policy (think: Michael Bay’s Captain America). To its credit, the story presented itself as a critique of Captain America, but still…it’s hard to find a smirking critique aspirational.Īnd this could have been the blueprint for the big screen. Less Captain America and more Captain ‘Murica, seemed to be the way to go.

CAPTIN MARVEL BUSH SERIES

Comic book Captain America reflected this bloodthirsty milieu in Mark Millar’s hugely successful Avengers reboot series called The Ultimates, when he sneers at the suggestion he surrender with a snarky, “Do you think this “A” on my head stands for France?” Another storyline has him briefly deployed in the Middle East, as a bullying muscleman invader pushing around the little brown people. The boy-next-door heroism for a hero named Captain America wasn’t plausible to a country reeling from a traumatic event and feeling the beginnings of real bloodthirst. Bush in office and the catastrophe of the Iraq War hanging over everything like a dark cloud - the comic book writers struggled with Cap. Permit the tangent, but even at the turn of the 21st century - with George W.

And yet he was supposed to be the toughest nut to crack! How could a goody-two-shoes patterned after the American flag, armed with an equally ostentatious star spangled Frisbee, ever prove to be compelling to the masses? Especially the non-American masses? The core of Steve Rogers/Captain America has been smoothly translated from page to screen, arguably more so than Thor or Iron Man. Of all of the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s accomplishments, the one that remains the most remarkable to me is that they made a character named Captain America (Captain…America…) the coolest Avenger.