I'm sure there are Marvel executives somewhere celebrating about all the publicity that Captain America: Steve Rogers issue #1 has been receiving. But was it worth destroying a popular character in the process for it. It's an understatement to say fans are outraged but that's apparently what the writer Nick Spencer wanted. Yes, he wanted fans to be outraged that he has taken one of their beloved characters and made him a villain.
Didn't Marvel learn anything from their rival DC Comics? At the start of the New 52, DC Comics used a large number of gimmicks and the use of shock value to launch the reboot. It didn't fair too well for them and in the end of the entire run of the New 52, the reboot has been seen as a huge disappointment. Which is currently why DC Comics is trying to fix everything with their latest soft reboot, Rebirth.
So why would Marvel for the 75th Anniversary of Captain America make him a Hydra agent. And apparently he's been that the entire time. My theory in this ridiculous plot is that Steve somehow has memories implanted and now believes he's a Hydra agent. Well, that's what I hope and not that the hero has been a mole the entire time building trust only to show his true colors as a member of a racist organization.
I would like to think Marvel wouldn't do something so stupid as to make their most iconic character a villain.
When you think back to the time when Captain America was created by Jack Kirby and Joe Simon, it was a difficult time. The Nazis were killing and imprisoning people because they had a ridiculous notion that the people were inferior. At that time, the United States had not entered the war but it was looking more like a strong possibility of that happening. Kirby and Simon created Captain America as a way to show how much they despised Hitler's regime.
I think what makes this ordeal even more sickening is that Captain America was created by two Jewish men. And now to see that Marvel and Nick Spencer have turned their creation into something they despised, it truly makes no sense.
I hope Nick Spencer has a clever way to fix this mess because it's hard to see how the once great Captain America can ever go back to being seen as a hero after this. Seeing Cap say Hail Hydra is a very powerful visual especially because this is a hero who stood up against the evils of the Nazis but now is one of them. It's very hard to take in.
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