Street Salutations

Anonymous

asks:

Just because Planet of the Apes is a big hit doesn't mean you have to make Captain America one.

andrewhickeywriter:
shabogangraffiti:
darrylayo:
alkthash:
darrylayo:
brevoortformspring:
Wow, not even bothering to disguise it, are you—apart from not giving any kind of name, of course.
You should make a comic where Captain America punches a racist in the face for nineteen pages straight through and then the twentieth page is a “to be continued,” that’s a free idea.
We can have him get a bit more creative than that. Stuff like slamming them through a wall or kicking them down the stairs come to mind.
No.
No creativity.
Just repeated punching in the face for nineteen pages. Just Captain America, punching a guy in the face repeatedly, past the limit of gratuitousness, past the point of a fair fight, past the point of rational decency. Punching a racist continually in the face until there are no more pages in that issue, and end with a “to be continued.”
Following issue of Captain America, punching that racist some more.
And have the entire thing drawn by the best working artist in comics so that we can all squander the brightest talents with gratuitously punching racists in the face until racists begin to feel a bit unwelcome and ill-at-ease.
It should be monotonous and kind of boring and really banal and truly joyless. A comic book containing no purpose except for the message that racists are fundamentally bad people.
How about a comic where Cap locks a racist who has just compared black people to apes in a small cage with an actual angry ape. And stands outside saying “see the difference?”
Cap wouldn’t be in favour of cruelty to apes… also, that would give some pleasure to racist comic fans who enjoy the pictures but don’t read the words…
I think part of the point is that it’s clear here that there remain a portion of comics fans for whom the not-actually-remotely-subtle anti-racist stories that Marvel has been doing for decades now are clearly not enough to have imparted any degree of learning, and that it is thus clearly time to dispense with all pretense of wit, intelligence, or nuance. In that regard, every suggested modification to Darryl’s proposal falls flat, simply because it returns to the flawed “try to make a good comic about racism” approach that’s brought us to this point.