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A review by onceandfuturelaura
Captain America: Winter Soldier by Ed Brubaker
3.0
I came to Captain America late because I thought, erroneously, that he was jingoistic and gung-ho; more Rambo than FDR. But he is very much an idealized version of America during World War II; who stepped up to save civilization from fascism; to defend the dignity and worth of every individual from being merely a means to an end; to save the weak from the tyranny of the strong. Perhaps a little less in this text than in the MCU. But in both, Steve Rogers became a superman to fight the ubermench. And his best friend became a Winter Soldier; a man who does things in the shadows subject to no civilized check. The moral complexity of that is fascinating.
This is a story without much of the moral complexity or ideological conflict simmering through the larger story. This Winter Soldier is simply a means to other men's ends; this Captain doesn't spend much time debating his moral obligations. But it is the story of a man who thought he was alone in a fundamental way finding that he was not in the worst way possible, and trying to rise to that challenge.
This Nick Fury is like until the Hoff and through this book I learned that I can't handle Nick Fury as anyone but Samuel L. Jackson these days.
This is a story without much of the moral complexity or ideological conflict simmering through the larger story. This Winter Soldier is simply a means to other men's ends; this Captain doesn't spend much time debating his moral obligations. But it is the story of a man who thought he was alone in a fundamental way finding that he was not in the worst way possible, and trying to rise to that challenge.
This Nick Fury is like until the Hoff and through this book I learned that I can't handle Nick Fury as anyone but Samuel L. Jackson these days.