An Amazing Moment of Comics

I love this protestor dressing up as punk Captain America. Taken at the No Kings protest on January 3. I hope to use this for a Comic Book Haiku column I'll be working on.

Be Like Cap

My Comic Book Haiku on Captain America #5 (Volume 12) is up at The Ugly Monster.

Back in the Comics Saddle Again

My Comic Book Haiku on Captain America #4 is up now at The Ugly Monster. 

The All Is Lost Moment

My Comic Book Haiku on Captain America #3 (the twelfth volume) is up at The Ugly Monster. Thanks to Oscar. More work coming soon.

More Coming!

My Comic Book Haiku on the second issue of the latest Captain America series is up now at The Ugly Monster. Thanks, Oscar!

 

This is Coming Back

My Comic Book Haiku on Captain America #1 is up now at The Ugly Monster. 

A Moment of Comics

To anyone who might ask why NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani's ideas are getting so much resistance, look to decades of propaganda from media trying to convince you that said ideas are bad. It might even be presented by people who would otherwise identify as the left. I think most people reading his work would agree that Mark Gruenwald was liberal. Yet here he is setting up one of his biggest legacies from his run writing the Captain America comic: The Serpent Society, a group of mercenaries coming together to (gasp) unionize. 

This was of course published by Marvel Comics, who, like most comic companies, are decisively anti-union. Written by Gruenwald with pencils by Paul Neary and inks by Dennis Janke. Life's full of irony like that. Think of how Image Comics staff finally created a union in reaction to working conditions decades after the founding members left the Marvel "plantation."

 

A Moment of Comics

I remember people being pissed with Ta-Neshi Coates' run on Captain America. So I gave it a look! Here's a page of Steve Rogers seeing good people on both sides with pencils by Leinil Francis Yu and inks by Garry Alanguilan.

A Moment of Comics

In dealing with my bouts of burnout over the years, I keep thinking of this page from Captain America #401, written by Mark Gruenwald with pencils by Rik Levins and inks by Danny Bulanadi. By the early nineties, Gruenwald's Captain America was an extension of the writer and editor more than ever, a lifelong fan of Marvel comics exhausted by the dark ultraviolent age of comics. I wouldn't call Levins or Bulandi a master at portraying genuine human emotions (no one at Marvel Comics was during this period), but whenever I sit at my desk unable to even look up at the monitor, I almost always think of this page and the second to last panel.