Ink Pen by Phil Dunlap for July 26, 2010
July 25, 2010
July 27, 2010
Transcript:
captain: Hey, wonder woman, love the new outfit! It's so practical, with the black jacket and pants! and if it ever gets battle damaged, you can just go to the gap and get more! A-ha-ha-h--!! captain: What? banana republic?
Captain America is SUPPOSED to be highly visible! He’s a flashing neon sign on the battlefield shouting “Here I am, you Ratzis! Take your best shot!”
When Captain America busts your bunker, you KNOW it’s him. He’s not a “secret weapon”, he’s a symbol, an INSPIRATION.
I’m not being facetious or sarcastic. Cap is the brash, straight-talking, straight-shooting, can-do America we were (or thought we were) in the 1940’s. If they don’t make him what he was SUPPOSED to be in WWII, then they lose the culture-shock of his transposition into the post-Vietnam, post-Watergate, push-button warfare culture of today.