Wednesday, May 25, 2016

Don't Hail HYDRA-Cap, Hashbrown, NotMyCaptain...

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.


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