I love how, when reporters who have probably never read a comic or know nothing about them, suddenly report comic news and try to act as though it's all great.
Read this article from the UK Telegraph Online:
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Marvel have announced that the comic superhero Captain America is going to be
a black man - a day after declaring that the character Thor was now a woman
Sam Wilson is the new Captain America Photo: Marvel
Captain America, the Marvel comic superhero who has been an American symbol
since the 1940s, will now be replaced in the newest comics by Sam Wilson, an
African American.
This news was released by the American comedy news show Colbert Report - but
was not a joke.
Anthony Mackie plays The Falcon in Captain America: The Winter Soldier (Marvel)
Marvel announced previously that an "exciting new development" in
their comics would be announced in the show on Wednesday night. The host,
Stephen Colbert - both his real and television personality - is a huge fan
of Captain America.
It is built around the retirement of Captain America's original alter ego,
Steve Rogers, who finds he has lost the extraordinary strength and agility
he had once gained from injections of performance-enhancing "super soldier
serum."
Coming from New York’s Harlem district, Wilson was already a member of the
superhero team, the Avengers, under the mantle of the Falcon. At the behest
of the original Captain America, he will now change his costume and become
arguably Marvel’s most famous superhero. Although this news has shocked
some, many fans predicted it.
This is not the first black Captain America, with the first being Isaiah Bradley in 2003. Marvel has been striving for more diversity in its most famous characters.
Tom Brevoort, Marvel executive editor, said: "It's about time."
He added: "In 2014, this should be a thing that we shrug off, it shouldn't be seen as revolutionary, but it still feels exciting."
Nevertheless, this news comes just days after Marvel announced that Thor will now be a women and follows Marvel’s general trend to shake up the comic status quo.
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Nice comment by Tom "I'll sell my soul for a dollar" Brevoort . Yeah, hip, fat, wealthy white dude showing how liberal he is (he'd spin in a second ifDisney Marvel said "ethnic is out"! Note it's Brevoort calling this "revolutionary"!
I have NO objection to a black Captain America. Created by Stan Lee and Gene Colan in 1969 the Falcon...movies...comic character...making money...hey, uh, family asking for any cash? Or isDisney Marvel stopping any such possible creator claim? Hey -he aint the Simon and Kirby Captain America and he's not Gene Colan's Falcon.
Oh come on -is everyone in comics so dumb they cannot see what is going on here?????
Anyway, this was not Marvel Comics first black character which was the Panther. Oh. Right. Too ethnic. He's African not African-American.
Now, call me paranoid (I'm sure people are) but are all these changes not familiar somehow: Fantastic Four not looking like the FF, a female Thor and now a black Captain America...oh, right -cosplay. Are all the new industry yawning changes inspired by cosplay??
All I can say is that I am glad I never ever intend to read any new Marvel Comics again..and, yes, this was one of the changes I'd heard about a while ago and mentioned non-specifically.
All this on the day DC Comics has announced that the Batwoman character is to replace Bruce Wayne and become the new look Batman.
That last bit was a joke...so far
This is not the first black Captain America, with the first being Isaiah Bradley in 2003. Marvel has been striving for more diversity in its most famous characters.
Tom Brevoort, Marvel executive editor, said: "It's about time."
He added: "In 2014, this should be a thing that we shrug off, it shouldn't be seen as revolutionary, but it still feels exciting."
Nevertheless, this news comes just days after Marvel announced that Thor will now be a women and follows Marvel’s general trend to shake up the comic status quo.
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Nice comment by Tom "I'll sell my soul for a dollar" Brevoort . Yeah, hip, fat, wealthy white dude showing how liberal he is (he'd spin in a second if
I have NO objection to a black Captain America. Created by Stan Lee and Gene Colan in 1969 the Falcon...movies...comic character...making money...hey, uh, family asking for any cash? Or is
Oh come on -is everyone in comics so dumb they cannot see what is going on here?????
Anyway, this was not Marvel Comics first black character which was the Panther. Oh. Right. Too ethnic. He's African not African-American.
Now, call me paranoid (I'm sure people are) but are all these changes not familiar somehow: Fantastic Four not looking like the FF, a female Thor and now a black Captain America...oh, right -cosplay. Are all the new industry yawning changes inspired by cosplay??
All I can say is that I am glad I never ever intend to read any new Marvel Comics again..and, yes, this was one of the changes I'd heard about a while ago and mentioned non-specifically.
All this on the day DC Comics has announced that the Batwoman character is to replace Bruce Wayne and become the new look Batman.
That last bit was a joke...so far
If Marvel really tried to put me off reading their current (or up-and-coming) crop of comics, I doubt that they could do a better job than this. Last one to leave please turn out the lights. It's reprints of the real Marvel heroes for me from now on.
ReplyDeleteKid, I can't put out the light as I left a good while ago! Seriously, I took the opportunity of storms-forcing-computer-switch-offs to go through the old Avengers titles and after "Heroes Reborn" it went okay but suddenly everything was thrown out and Avengers Disassembled KILLED everything. It just hopped back and forth from one crap idea to another with art that varied from okay to being so dark when printed I thought someone put the lights out! I also re-read through the b&w Essential Defenders and just realised how much better the stories were -and the art was FAR better than I remembered. Personally, I'm trying to complete my Silver Age/Bronze age series' and that's it...hmm. Could Archie return as a Jessica Rabbit type character -"New and hip and PC cuz he's now a she"????
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