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A review by captwinghead
Essential Captain America, Vol. 4 by Alan Weiss, Tony Isabella, John David Warner, Frank Robbins, Mike Friedrich, Herb Trimpe, Steve Gerber, Sal Buscema
2.0
Yikes... this started with some of the same heart and fun that I like about the classic Cap comics and then swan dived straight into ignorance.
I like the Nomad era. However short it was, it's a big part of Cap's history and I really liked that. I loved seeing Sam get his wings. Although I appreciate that the films didn't make Sam get them because he felt inferior to Cap, I wished they'd come from Wakanda from the start. Still, Sam and Steve's partnership is what makes this books fun.
The retcon of Sam's history to make him a former criminal and Red Skull's creation was really sh*tty. There's no way around that. Not only was it completely unneeded, it was executed in a way that was just incredibly racist. Sure, we expect the Red Skull to use racist rhetoric, but taking an upstanding black male character who worked tirelessly to help the underprivileged in his neighborhood and turning him into a no good former criminal is racist. Why do it? Why ruin one of the few black characters in Marvel at the time - and one of the few with no ties to crime.
*Sighs* we continue on
I like the Nomad era. However short it was, it's a big part of Cap's history and I really liked that. I loved seeing Sam get his wings. Although I appreciate that the films didn't make Sam get them because he felt inferior to Cap, I wished they'd come from Wakanda from the start. Still, Sam and Steve's partnership is what makes this books fun.
The retcon of Sam's history to make him a former criminal and Red Skull's creation was really sh*tty. There's no way around that. Not only was it completely unneeded, it was executed in a way that was just incredibly racist. Sure, we expect the Red Skull to use racist rhetoric, but taking an upstanding black male character who worked tirelessly to help the underprivileged in his neighborhood and turning him into a no good former criminal is racist. Why do it? Why ruin one of the few black characters in Marvel at the time - and one of the few with no ties to crime.
*Sighs* we continue on