As long as there have been comic books, there have been retcons. For all that they have acquired a bad reputation, retcons can be an incredibly useful tool in comics writing and shouldn’t be dismissed out of hand. Done right, retcons can add an enormous amount of depth and breadth to a character, making their worlds far richer than they were before. Instead, I would argue that retcons should be…
@racefortheironthrone , our resident Cap-ologist writes the definitive takedown of Nick Spencer’s new issue of Cap and how it betrays the Simon and Kirby legacy and fans alike.
Look, I’m fully prepared for this to all pan out to be implanted memories but this is an awful way to set that up.
Apparently not. Which is even worse.
friends, friends, friends. There is no way, none, zero, no way at all, that Marvel has made Steve Rogers a racist Hydra agent, seriously and straightforwardly and permanently, forever and ever amen. Not a snowball’s chance in hell. Come on. In other news, Superman is not still dead.
Sean, I’m sure that it’s not going to be “permanently, forever and ever amen.” It’s the seriously and straightforwardly I have an issue with, because, as I lay out in my essay above, it’s still not a good twist even if that was the case.
All it does is piss off a whole bunch of people who care about Steve Rogers because he’s an anti-fascist, who (on the 75th anniversary of Cap’s creation) identify with Jack Kirby and Joe Simon because they were Jewish comic book creators who put Cap socking Hitler in the jaw in 1940 when it got them death threats from the Bund, and it does it as a cheap advertising gimmick to drum up controversy and more sales.
But years from now, the only thing that people will remember about this run is “oh yeah, that was the run where Cap was a Nazi.” And that really sucks.
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