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I wasn't 100% wrong - the series is pretty much devolving into an excuse for random violent sequences against faceless bad guys. That said, Fighting American still wrestles with the idea of killing. No so his sidekick for this series, No Name, who we're supposed, and who FA supposes, to think is actually the lost Speedboy, somehow back from the dead. And No Name likes killing. And using racist language to talk about someone from China. Actually, he uses racist epithets that are more properly (?) applied to Japanese people, so I'm not sure if this shows a gap in writer Jim Starlin's knowledge (which I doubt), or our No Name is just supposed to be a stupid enough racist that he doesn't differentiate between people from different parts of East Asia. I'm going with the second idea, as it adds a bit of nuance to a relatively nuance-less story.
Honestly, this series really seems like it's trying to reboot the whole of Fighting American in the Awesome Universe - there's no mention of previous adventures, no mention of other characters. Fighting American, it appeared, was being set up to take a starring role in The Allies (which never appears), and was perhaps going to bring a military, but sympathetic, viewpoint to the Awesome Universe. But now, and I think I may have said it yesterday, it's like they handed him to Frank Miller and told him to forget the rest of the shared narrative space the character inhabits.
Awesome Comics folds about a year and a half from this comic's publication. As Alan Moore's revision wave at the beginning of this awesome experiment suggests, sometimes a universe will start trying as many different possibilities as it can in order to find something that will stick. I get the feeling that this Fighting American series was just such a try. As we'll see with tomorrow's issue, it just didn't work.
More to follow.
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