I hadn't been going to pick up the new Captain America title because I just don't find Sam Wilson as interesting a character as Steve Rogers.
But if Fox News and Breitbart and the like are going to pitch a fit over it, I'm definitely going to give it a try.
People Are Very Mad That the New Captain America Is Acting Like Captain America
Ever since he punched Hitler in the face 75 years ago, Captain America has been a political character. Many times he’s walked away from the government, and reminded people that he works for America as a whole, not just its government. So when he does exactly that, it’s kind of amazing that people still get so outraged by it.
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It's so nice to know that everything else in the world is fine so there's plenty of time to get upset over comic books. 😛
Here's what I'm wondering. Is that the real issue? As mentioned before, Cap has, in the past, gone his own way to show he's wasn't just a government flunkie so this isn't anything new. Could it simply be a convenient reason to attack the character because Captain America is now
blackdifferent?+Marty Shaw I suspect there's a subtext there, but it's been a while since Cap really took a major social stand that I can think of (like, maybe, 30-40 years). It's one thing to say, "I don't work for SHIELD any more, another to tell America or a sizable chunk of it to piss off.
That said, it really hasn't happened since the Right went off the edge, so simply being anti- them may be sufficient for the burning outrage even without throwing a bit of flammable race issue into the fire. (Cf., the non-canon "Superman declares he is not an America" brouhaha of a few years back – http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2011/04/28/superman-renounces-citizenship-00th-issue/).
So, they either totally forgot that the Civil War line existed or, more likely, are taking offense in some part because of the comic's shading, because that seems to affect what Faux thinks you can get away with (see the events of the last few years, where their coverage of standoffs with the government seemed to bias along a similar line).
+Gary Roth "Civil War? What's that? Wait, are you saying Captain America fought for the Yankees?"
The vast majority of these yo-yos don't read comics. Their idea of Captain America is distant memories of their brother's collection and the movies. For them, Captain America is the "Star-Spangled Man with a Plan" of the WW2 propaganda films. So once someone decides to get outraged over some perceived change the status quo (Cap is black! Cap is a socialist! Cap loves the ebola-carrying ISIL-sheltering rapist Mexicans!), it very quickly stops having anything to do with reality (let alone comics continuity) and becomes tribal grunting and pounding of clubs on logs.