Joan is making some good points, and I’d also like to go another step and say that superheros are alienated from the masses like you and me; we also need Jimmy Olsen to punch out nazis, with Superman cheering Jimmy on.
I really think you are on to something.
No superhero is coming to save us. We need to step up.
But Jimmy should step up first.
Captain America is become Hitler. That’s what needs fixing first.
Captain America use to stand for the American public. Now comics are subconsciously saying you have to be special or powerful to fight injustice. Show me a “no power” superhero like Batman or Ironman that isn’t rich, yet makes a difference.
Captain America use to stand for the American public.
Did he? It seems like he was always an emblem of military propaganda. More Americans used to be enlisted in the military, on account of the high demand for conscripts during Korea and Vietnam. But I wouldn’t consider a whitewashed super-soldier to be a good representative of the civilian public.
Show me a “no power” superhero like Batman or Ironman that isn’t rich
Green Arrow and The Punisher leap to mind. If you go further back, you’ve got comic book heroes like Dick Tracey and TinTin. Go through The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and you’ve got Allen Quartermane, Captain Nemo, A. J. Raffles, and Ishmael. And nobody in GI Joe had magic powers. Plenty of golden age heroes were just… detectives or kungfu masters or adventurers of some sort.
Kickass, but he doesn’t understand the assignment and just wants the veneer of being a hero.
We need Captain America to punch America.
Or better yet, since he dont exist, end the capeshit imperial propaganda.
Don’t get it me…you’ve got that dead old Superman meme where he explains racism is “unAmerican”…and now here you are.
Thanks for reminder that Comics are propaganda disguised as children’s entertainment since that time.
Well done, champ.
