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May. 25th, 2016
Down in Flames....
May. 25th, 2016 01:33 pmWow, so Marvel and Nick Spencer really making a case for me never ever ever giving them my money ever again.
Captain America/Steve Rogers as Hydra Agent"
"[T]he one thing we can say unequivocally is: This is not a clone, not an imposter, not mind control, not someone else acting through Steve," said Spencer. "This really is Steve Rogers, Captain America."
Like. Apparently this has been in the works since 2014 and it makes me sick. Like can't-eat-my-lunch-crying-at-my-desk sick. How do you even come to the thought process that this is okay? How did this not get shut down hard before it ever got out of the concept room?
This is spitting on the graves of the people who created Captain America - Joe Simon and Jack Kirby were Jewish. Cap was created as a response to WWII and hell, the entire comics industry was built by Jewish creators. Everything we have today is due to Jewish creators, from Superman to Cap.
@Wheeler on Twitter put it like this: "Superheroes were invented by Jewish artists fleeing anti-Semitism. The fantasy of justice was a storyteller's response to genocide."
He's not wrong. Look at this paragraph from HOW THE JEWS CREATED THE COMIC BOOK INDUSTRY: Part I: The Golden Age (1933-1955) (bolded emphasis mine).
"I found a way to help the war effort by portraying the times in the form of comic characters. I was saying what was on my mind, and I was extremely patriotic!"
--Jack Kirby
With America's entry into World War II, Superman, Batman, and other comic-book superheroes were pressed into action. "As comics writers," Stan Lee says, "we had to have villains in our stories. And once World War II started, the Nazis gave us the greatest villains in the world to fight against. It was a slam dunk." Captain Marvel fought Captain Nazi, the Aryan assassin and super-soldier. Captain America, created in 1941 by Jewish cartoonists Joe Simon and Jack Kirby, took on the Nazi agent Red Skull. "Two Jews created this weak little guy named Steve Rogers who gets shot in the arm [by scientist Dr. Reinstein, a reference to Albert Einstein] and, by way of a 'secret serum,' becomes this super-strong hero who starts destroying Nazis," explains political cartoonist Peter Kuper (World War Three Illustrated, The New Yorker, MAD magazine's "Spy Vs. Spy"). "What a distinctly empowering image." Simon and Kirby also created the Boy Commandos, a strip about an international group of patriotic children from Allied countries who aided in the war effort; the stories' final panels often depicted caricatures of Hitler being foiled by the children's covert operations. The lesson: even children--like those who read comics--could play a heroic role in the battle against evil."
And I just...I can't even fathom what went into this decision and why, but I've soured on the MCU as of late, and this is just the nail in the coffin for any further investment I was contemplating making in Marvel. I've been a Captain America fan for 25 years, but this latest turn of events? No. No more.
Never Again.
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Captain America/Steve Rogers as Hydra Agent"
"[T]he one thing we can say unequivocally is: This is not a clone, not an imposter, not mind control, not someone else acting through Steve," said Spencer. "This really is Steve Rogers, Captain America."
Like. Apparently this has been in the works since 2014 and it makes me sick. Like can't-eat-my-lunch-crying-at-my-desk sick. How do you even come to the thought process that this is okay? How did this not get shut down hard before it ever got out of the concept room?
This is spitting on the graves of the people who created Captain America - Joe Simon and Jack Kirby were Jewish. Cap was created as a response to WWII and hell, the entire comics industry was built by Jewish creators. Everything we have today is due to Jewish creators, from Superman to Cap.
@Wheeler on Twitter put it like this: "Superheroes were invented by Jewish artists fleeing anti-Semitism. The fantasy of justice was a storyteller's response to genocide."
He's not wrong. Look at this paragraph from HOW THE JEWS CREATED THE COMIC BOOK INDUSTRY: Part I: The Golden Age (1933-1955) (bolded emphasis mine).
"I found a way to help the war effort by portraying the times in the form of comic characters. I was saying what was on my mind, and I was extremely patriotic!"
--Jack Kirby
With America's entry into World War II, Superman, Batman, and other comic-book superheroes were pressed into action. "As comics writers," Stan Lee says, "we had to have villains in our stories. And once World War II started, the Nazis gave us the greatest villains in the world to fight against. It was a slam dunk." Captain Marvel fought Captain Nazi, the Aryan assassin and super-soldier. Captain America, created in 1941 by Jewish cartoonists Joe Simon and Jack Kirby, took on the Nazi agent Red Skull. "Two Jews created this weak little guy named Steve Rogers who gets shot in the arm [by scientist Dr. Reinstein, a reference to Albert Einstein] and, by way of a 'secret serum,' becomes this super-strong hero who starts destroying Nazis," explains political cartoonist Peter Kuper (World War Three Illustrated, The New Yorker, MAD magazine's "Spy Vs. Spy"). "What a distinctly empowering image." Simon and Kirby also created the Boy Commandos, a strip about an international group of patriotic children from Allied countries who aided in the war effort; the stories' final panels often depicted caricatures of Hitler being foiled by the children's covert operations. The lesson: even children--like those who read comics--could play a heroic role in the battle against evil."
And I just...I can't even fathom what went into this decision and why, but I've soured on the MCU as of late, and this is just the nail in the coffin for any further investment I was contemplating making in Marvel. I've been a Captain America fan for 25 years, but this latest turn of events? No. No more.
Never Again.
This entry was originally posted at http://bethany-lauren.dreamwidth.org/451995.html. Please comment there using OpenID.