Ooooo...this one was pretty touch and go. I think I have to give it a pass because the story is very much on the side of the Indigenous people who are being ousted by a corrupt company. But the series is from the 80s, and the language around the conversation with Indigenous communities was simply unevolved. I'm finding very much the same things with the conversations going on in the series about race and sex. Creator Alan Weiss is using the only language he has at his disposal, but the conversations are quite positive, I think. Today's comic definitely questions who has the right to be on particular land, and outright calls attention to the way that the U.S. government blatantly ignored (and continues to ignore) the treaties signed with the Indigenous nations.
I think this aligns nicely with what I was saying about Steelgrip yesterday, in that he's meant, as Cap is, to represent what the dream of American is supposed to have been. What one still ought to be working toward - humanitarian, egalitarian.
"Steelgrip, why does Ryan have a plaster kit in his backpack?"
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