There's only one reason Marvel and this story's architect Nick Spencer are doing this: money. I can break down my utter disgust in this into 3 parts: opportunistic storytelling, spitting on history, and willful ignorance of contemporary politics. Which is a whole other can of offensive worms.Īs a life-long comics fan, a lover of comic book history, and a Jewish woman, this editorial decision has me enraged. A preview released at C2E2 shows this newly Nazi'd Cap holding Thor's hammer Mjolnir, implicitly saying that someone with those abhorrent views is still somehow found magically worthy of a heroic tool. In fact, they've recently gone so far as to make it so that he was ALWAYS a Nazi, and that the previous canon of a good-guy Steve Rogers who fought against Hitler was actually a lie.
That's right, Marvel has, in effect, made Captain America a Nazi. He's a member of the evil organization Hydra, the villainous group aligned with and directly based on World War II era Nazis. In this latest and likely temporary multi-month arc, which Marvel has been building toward for a year now, it's revealed that patriotic hero Captain America is actually not a patriot. The entertainment juggernaut (X-Men pun intended) recently began a universe-wide storyline called Secret Empire, enraging fans beyond the normal geeky outcries. Bigmouth is a Podmasters production.Superhero comics creators: we're political, and always have been Theme music: ‘Bunker Theme (Juntos Mix)’ by Kenny Dickenson. And all the music is on The Culture Bunker’s rolling playlist: and presented by Siân Pattenden and Andrew Harrison.
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