I can barely get over the irony of the movie "Captain America" coming out right now.I confirmed, in researching, that this comic was begun in the 1940's, during the Great Depression.
That it would come back out now, in our "Second Great Depression" or the "Mancession" or whatever you want to call it, since it's the worst economic times since then, over the last 80 years, is just too great. A subtle comparison it's not, but still, there it is.
And sure, we have far better technology now and it's been wholly refreshed and it's great for, what? 15-year-old boys or some such but, come on, the timing of this is just too rich to pass on.
The thing that gets me most about it is the whole "bringing back the America we once knew" aspect of it. Clearly, we'd like to pretend we live in a bygone era but we can't go back to when it was all white people and no global warming or pollution or Mexicans coming into the country or Japanese earthquake/tsunami/nuclear meltdown, etc., etc.
Besides blowing great wads of money, I think our civilization--the US--will also, one day, be known for not learning (e.g., Vietnam, housing booms and busts, Afghanistan, etc.), ignorant, obnoxious bravado (Geo. W. Bush, the Iraq War, etc.) and sticking our collective heads in sand, at minimum.
Pass the popcorn.
Links: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_america
http://captainamerica.marvel.com/
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