Will Eisner and Captain America
Anyone interested in writing Captain America aka Steve Rogers might want to take a look at the graphic novel To the Heart of the Storm by Will Eisner. Or, hey, even if you're not... it's a good book and a quick read!
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*refrains from huge tangent here about Captain America as meta, as symbol, and as character, plus my personal issues with these things.*
You should do! Once of my surprises with Captain America is that not a lot of people had comment on what he represented/represents. On one hand, Captain America is pretty much the American ideal of identity - blonde haired, blue eyed, Aryan 'superman'. On the other hand, Captain America is supposedly on the side of 'right' in terms of being a patriot who isn't a scoundrel.
Totally agree about loving the media and hating the sins. I wonder if comics' sins seem so egregious because the writing/drawing combo exposes an unusual amount of creator-id... or if I just know more about it and love it more.
Or the fact that comics are very much of their time. In that if you pretty much lost the history books to time, but you only had comics to hand, it would be a mirror of society- which is why I tend to go on about diversity in comics (and am puzzled that for the younger titles, like Runaways and Young Avengers they can go all diverse, but for the older, more established titles, they just CAN'T).
But yeah, loved Eisner comics: the stories, the art can't be beat. But stuff like Ebony, it keeps me from embracing them unconditionally. Maturity, I guess, when you can still love the medium but hate the sins of it.
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