Sam Wilson: The Captain White America Needs
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Marvel’s new Sam Wilson: Captain America series by Nick Spencer and David Acuña is the Captain America series I wanted to see from the moment they announced the former sidekick would be taking over the role… Okay, maybe not quite, since Marvel remains too cowardly to directly address the race of their African-American Captain America, but then again maybe that is not such a bad thing given superhero comics’ poor track record with its treatment of race. Still that history is no excuse not to try to do something with some relevance to the “world outside your window,” which has been Marvel’s mantra since radioactivity was a source of super-powers and not cancer. What I saw of the first Captain America series to feature the former-Falcon in the role (by Rick Remender and Stuart Immonen) did not convince me that we should Marvel at a Black Captain America, but this series shows promise right off the bat, not only for its story content and characterization, but also for Acuña’s clever paneling and mix of bright colors with muted palette and shadows to clarify the interlacing timelines in the non-linear story-telling.
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Marvel’s new Sam Wilson: Captain America series by Nick Spencer and David Acuña is the Captain America series I wanted to see from the moment they announced the former sidekick would be taking over the role… Okay, maybe not quite, since Marvel remains too cowardly to directly address the race of their African-American Captain America, but then again maybe that is not such a bad thing given superhero comics’ poor track record with its treatment of race. Still that history is no excuse not to try to do something with some relevance to the “world outside your window,” which has been Marvel’s mantra since radioactivity was a source of super-powers and not cancer. What I saw of the first Captain America series to feature the former-Falcon in the role (by Rick Remender and Stuart Immonen) did not convince me that we should Marvel at a Black Captain America, but this series shows promise right off the bat, not only for its story content and characterization, but also for Acuña’s clever paneling and mix of bright colors with muted palette and shadows to clarify the interlacing timelines in the non-linear story-telling.
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