Marvel peaks my interest
I read a long time ago that they were going to launch a Spidey series in India, entirely written and produced in that country, which would constitute a re-imagining of the character for Indian audiences. Sounded like a great idea to me, and I was a bit sad thinking that I, being in this country and all, wouldn't get to read it.
Well, I was wrong. It comes out this week, and I'll definitely be picking it up.
Also this week, Ed Brubaker's Captain America. I do love Ed Brubaker, and it sounds like he's using Disassebled as a 9/11 parable for Cap, who is on an angry and counter-productive rampage. I'll probably buy the first issue to see if it's worth buying the eventual trade. I have a new policy to not buy things in issue form that are clearly written for the trade. Goodbye Astonishing X-Men.
Well, I was wrong. It comes out this week, and I'll definitely be picking it up.
Also this week, Ed Brubaker's Captain America. I do love Ed Brubaker, and it sounds like he's using Disassebled as a 9/11 parable for Cap, who is on an angry and counter-productive rampage. I'll probably buy the first issue to see if it's worth buying the eventual trade. I have a new policy to not buy things in issue form that are clearly written for the trade. Goodbye Astonishing X-Men.
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I always thought they should scrap the whole, "Captain America works for the UN via the Avengers and helps everyman" sort of tone and just make him very hawkish and 1940-ish. After all, he is *from* the 1940s. He hates Nazis, Commies, and evil scientists. And actually, you don't even have to make him a hawkish dick (ala Guy Garnder or Captain Atom), you can just make him unabashedly pro-American in the way a presidential candidate is, but make him a little naive, too.
Or, if you wanted to be really ballsy...
Make him *exactly* like the Captain America of the 1940s, only replace Nazis with terrorists. Have Cap hanging out in Arab countries and just kicking ass left, right, and center, assassinating leaders, and working directly for the U.S. Military.
Then have the rest of the Marvel Heroes try to stage some sort of intervention or something, or send Nick Fury to stop Cap.
Maybe even have Nick *join* Cap after they talk.
Either way, I see it playing out like Johns' brilliant Black Reign arc in JSA/Hawkman. At the end, no one gives, they just learn to respect the other's position as valid.
There are just so many cool things that can happen if Cap has uneasy relations with the rest of the Marvelverse. I know they never crossover, but still, just imagine Cap trying to deal with the X-Men!
I know Brubaker's planning on returning Cap to a more superheroic feel, after his very polticized (both right and left) last series. Red Skull and Cosmic Cube and the like. But your idea sounds cool, Alex.
Also, Alex, have you read The Ultimates? Ultimate Cap seems more up your alley. Millar did not forget that Cap's a soldier, through and through. He's simultaneously naive about modern living, and the greatest asskicker who ever breathed. It's fun stuff.
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