I’ve been asked by a couple of readers to weigh in on the Captain America brouhaha, wherein the tea party movement and Fox News have bullied Marvel into issuing a public apology for depicting a tea party protest in the most recent issue of Captain America, basically with the insinuation that the protesters were being equated with supervillains.
I’ve not written about it because other people (like my friend and Captain America scholar Jennifer Smith) have tackled the issue with much more grace and logic than I could hope, but my shortest possible response without profanity is, “Those people are idiots and Marvel is stupid to apologize to them,” as well as, “Captain America is not necessarily Captain Conservative. Stop your partisan jackass bullshit.”
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Brilliant.
I always thought that the more sexual content of comics or that whole Spider-Man making a deal with the devil would catch the Right’s attention. Heh. Guess I was wrong.
Still, can’t believe that this has been such an issue. Seems a bit blown out of proportion, especially since the originator of this controversy didn’t even read the issue closely.