By now, you've probably heard about the
big ERMAHHGEHRD thing that Marvel dropped today. Captain America, as it turns
out, has been a HYDRA double agent the whole time, since he was a kid,
actually, and being a Good Guy has been a really, REALLY long con. Many of you
are probably Nerd Raging right now, or are sunk on the floor wailing and
gnashing your teeth.
So at the risk of being redundant, I
figured I'd share my feelings on this whole Captain America shenanigan that
exploded on the intarwebz today. I'll say straight off the bat that here there
be spoilers. Fairly warned be ye, says I.
So, I went over to my local purveyor of
funny books because I did want to take a look at Steve Rogers: Captain America
#1. No, I didn't buy it, I didn't give it a full read. I pretty much just
flipped to the last few pages to read The Twist. So there's a captured
scientist who I assume worked for HYDRA and Jack Flag was supposed to be off
supporting another hero, Cap told him to do that, but he decide Cap needed
help. Cap says he regrets that Jack did that, then proceeds to throw him out of
the plane they're in, presumably killing him before turning to the scientist
and saying Hail HYDRA. There's a comics voiceover going on too, but I don't
know if it was Cap, or someone else or what. Honestly, I didn't care that much.
I still don't. And what I mean is, I don't care to know the story. After
reading that, I put the issue back, shook my head and went and bought an issue
of Howard the Duck and 2 issues of The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl.
Now, I'm not going to sit here and stoke
myself up into a frothing nerd rage about this. Don't get me wrong, I REALLY
don't like it. I've always really liked Captain America, and one of the things
I liked the most was that unlike pretty much every other Marvel Character, he
wasn't carrying around steamer trunks full of emotional baggage. He was a hero
because he's a good guy at his most basic level. He wants to help, he wants to
save people. Now to have Marvel tell me, "Nope, he's been a bad guy the
WHOLE time, just fuckin with ya!" Well, to me that just feels like a giant
middle finger. A gimmick that they're doing because they think that Captain
America needs to go "Dark" to stay relevant. Yeah, don't think so,
House of Ideas. This is a DUMB idea.
Like I said, I'm not going to beat my
fists, I'm not going to stoke myself up into a towering nerd rage, and I'm not
going to say "BLEAARRRRGH!! ME BOYCOTT MARVEL FOREVER!" Nah. I mean,
I probably won't be reading any more Captain America any time soon, at least
not Steve Rogers because I just think that this is a damn stupid idea. Yeah, I
can see how people are pissed about this. Like I said, I don't like it either.
But my feeling is, instead of raging on the internet, just vote with your
dollars. Stop talking about it, stop freaking out, stop buying it. And if you
really hate the idea of HYDRACap, don't worry too much. If this storyline
remains this reviled and hated, it looks like Marvel's next universe reboot is
only a few short months away. So yeah, just ignore it for now, True Believers,
and I'd say it's got a good chance of going away before too long.
Carry on smartly, Dear Friends.
