2/22/2024 0 Comments Download the new Captain Marvel![]() ![]() ![]() Rogers’s transformation into Captain America is underwritten by the military. Dubbed Captain America, Rogers becomes the personification of his country’s egalitarian ideals-an anatomical Horatio Alger who through sheer grit and the wonders of science rises to become a national hero. The heart and body are brought into alignment through the Super Soldier Serum, which transforms Rogers into a peak human physical specimen. Captain America begins as Steve Rogers-a man with the heart of a god and the body of a wimp. In fact, the best thing about the story of Captain America is the implicit irony. Those of you who’ve never read a Captain America comic book or seen him in the Marvel movies would be forgiven for thinking of Captain America as an unblinking mascot for American nationalism. This summer, I’m entering a new one-the world of Captain America. For two years I’ve lived in the world of Wakanda, writing the title Black Panther. ![]() Everything has to be shown, a fact I knew going into the work, but could not truly know until I had actually done it. Writers don’t write comics so much as they draw them with words. To say it is more difficult than it looks is to commit oneself to criminal understatement. Two years ago I began taking up the childhood dream of writing comics. ![]()
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