It’s kind of funny.  I see that the “Captain America comic book infuriates Tea Partiers” story has reverberated a bit more even since I myself posted a blog entry about it.  I don’t think there is much of a story here — I gather some of the hub ub comes from the mistaken notion that children actually read comic books.  (In the mid 1980s, DC Comics ran an ad campaign awkwardly grabbing for respectability with “Comics Aren’t Just for Kids Anymore”.  And so that came to be true, and so the comic book industry just kept on the atrophizing that had began back in the mid-1950s.)

This might also partially explain a certain lack of context that appears in the news articles on this story.  The last time “Captain America” received some media attention / controversy (indeed, the last time any comic book did) and scorn from right wing blog-sites, Captain America was deciding not to go along with an item in a fictionalized version of the Patriot Act.  To put this another way, why is it that — with yahoo having this “Captain America” story on its front page this morning, I can go over to google blog and type in “Ed Brubaker” — the writer of this story — and see that my blog post is the second item concerning this story, and the third over-all.  These things don’t write themselves!  I submit to you that if we’re going to get all upset with politics propping up into superhero comic books, well — I expect Bernie Goldberg to slide someone out of the next edition of “101 People Who Are Screwing Up America” and insert Ed Brubaker’s name.

I will state for the record that when I really particularly cared about the work of Ed Brubaker, his comic books looked like this — a poor man’s Chester Brown, I suppose.  In 1999, I had to slant my head a bit upon reading that Ed Brubaker had been hired to write for Batman.  An interesting career move, but the result is apparently that a move to mainstream superhero comic books has his work getting more political in nature. 

Hey!  Is Revenire reading this?

In future editions, Marvel Comics is going to remove the “Tea Party” referencing signs.  I must say, though, that the changes Marvel Comics is apparently going to make probably will upset the “Tea Party” movement a bit more.

Then there’s this other piece of patent dishonesty.

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