Captain America is about to battle his most fearsome foe yet: The government of the United States.Today, Marvel Comics is releasing the first in its miniseries Civil War, which can only be described as a gutsy comic-book series focusing on the whole debate over homeland security and tighter government controls in the name of public safety.
The seven-issue series once again puts superheroes right back in the thick of real-world news, just as DC Comics has Batman battling al-Qaeda in a soon-to-appear comic and Marvel's X-Men continue to explore themes of public intolerance and discrimination.
It also recalls the plotline during the Watergate years when Captain America's alterego, disillusioned by White House politics, stopped donning the patriotic costume.
To those of you who were too "cool" to read comics you may not be aware of how cutting edge many of our favorite comics have been in our American culture. Comic superheroes were already battling Hitler before America formally entered the war, and the introduction of black superheroes preceded, by almost twenty years, the addition of positive black role models on television.
I stopped collecting quite along time ago but I have to say my interest is piqued by this.
(Stop staring at the Captains crotch!)
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