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Another shout-out today to Joe Phillips - if you didn't have a look at his website when I spoke about him last week, you really ought to. Just frickin' glorious art, and so fabulously gay!
I am dying to see a gay Captain America. Can you imagine the ruckus from the fanboys? There's an interesting moment in this comic, one that has played out in numerous Captain America stories from the past, in which Cap questions whether his allegiance is to a government or to a country. I wonder if the choice has to be muddied a bit with a third option: an ideal. It has always seemed to me that Captain America stands for the ideal of America, not the brutal, racist state that currently exists. But once we go back and interrogate the Founding Fathers and their notions a bit, can we even begin to talk about an "ideal" America? If disparity and inequality are baked in at the most fundamental, original levels, how does one go about dismantling that system? More likely, and more what we're seeing now, is the tearing the system down as unrecoverable, and starting again.
I am dying to see what happens, even more so than I am for a gay Captain America. But that's the thing, right? If Cap is to stand for the ideal of America, then he ought to be queer. And of mixed descent. Child of immigrants. The blond haired, blue eyed ubermensch is a bit Nazi ideal, really. In fact, were I to have my way, I think I'd rewrite Captain America as a team of individuals, or have it as an identity that floats from person to person, always where it is needed to right one of the injustices that have become the fabric of daily American life.
But seriously, go have a look at Mr. Phillips' work. It's so great.
More to follow.
Further Reading and Related Posts
Here's a few more things that I've written about Captain America.
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