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...ideological biases and partialities of Team America—the collective minds that write, edit and draw the Captain America comics—are apparent. It’s no coincidence that the source of the comic hero’s plight shares similarities with our government’s highly-polarizing Patriot Act, or that enemies of freedom (read: terrorists) were responsible for the assassination of this idealistic symbol of liberty...
...issue of the popular Marvel comic book bearing his name, his creators have taken the opportunity to make a worthy statement about a number of issues. And it didn’t matter if they were jingoists or turncoats, left-wing or right—the onus was on Captain America’s writers to take advantage of their ability to reach to a broad and responsive audience by saying something worthwhile in the issue. And they...
...Already, we’ve seen a number of issues tackled in Captain America comics: the debate over the squelching of civil liberties, the radical actions that result when such freedoms are unequivocally preserved, and, most importantly, the scope of the divided American society we live in today. But thankfully, what we didn’t see were any hard-fast prescriptions from the writers. Through their comic series, they have consciously opined in a grey area, one that presents thoughtful questions without the inundation of partisan answers...
...Like the 9/11 comic book, Captain America’s story essentially presents us with a set of facts—a state of the union-esque report about the blurred nature of many of our country’s most controversial political fights today. The setting is fictional, yes, but the questions raised...
...social commentary with a common (if slightly waning) pastime for American kids, that’s all the better. It’s the same way we strive to create edutainment video games and emulate Blue’s Clues on TV. The difference is that Captain America is way cooler than talking religious vegetables or that weird Steve guy on Nickelodeon...