CAPTAIN AMERICA #28-A (2021) JORDAN PETERSON RED SKULL CONTROVERSY MARVEL NM

Description: MARVEL COMICS Art and storytelling are as much a part of being Human as, say, breathing, and it goes without saying that the works of art we create and the stories we tell are very much influenced by the world around us, what affects us, what we see in society and, of course, what we think about it. There are also many different kinds of art and stories, from the stories we tell others of our hectic trip to the grocery store yesterday to stories we tell of fantastic and fictious worlds, places we've created for others to enjoy and to where they may escape. In the latter kind of stories, collectively known as fiction, the writer often tries to be "invisible," and the worlds created, while resembling aspects of ours and definitely influenced by the only real world we know, exist in their own unique and special place that is very much unlike ours in every way. Such is the world, the greater Universe, of Marvel's comics. Works of fiction, written by humans, of course, may become infused with the ideas, positions, viewpoints or the politics of a writer, especially when the writer feels strongly about an issue. Characters, whether pre-established or not, can take on new meanings to become representative of persons or events in the real world, and story events may be interpreted as parallels for real world situations. When this happens, the fictional worlds and their inhabitants can't help but operate from a place of non-objective bias, and in some way or another reflect the viewpoint of the writer or artist who created the work. This is, after all, the point, as the writer's story was very much created to draw the parallel it makes, and as events unfold the reader comes to understand the writer's position on those events. On a greater level, the story serves as the writer's argument. We understand the writer's viewpoint, and the story is his or her way of presenting the facts and convincing us to share a similar viewpoint. Whether such writing has a place in certain media like comics is a nuanced argument itself, and political positions of comic book writers has become a subject of increasing debate as it becomes more pervasive, and more overt, in the Modern era. While comics published during World War II were very obvious in their anti-Axis positions and their nationalistic heroes like CAPTAIN AMERICA, himself a very obvious symbol of American ideas and virtues, social and political views in the Modern era are far less cut-and-dried. Captain America #28 has become very well known as one issue where a writer, Ta-Nehisi Coates, has injected his own political viewpoints into his work. The issue, one chapter in a larger story-arc, features longtime villain THE RED SKULL, himself a Nazi introduced in Captain America Comics #7 (1941), who was physically dead but had later transferred his essence into the mind of a living Soviet KGB operative, Aleksander Lukin, thus allowing the Skull to continue his fight against democracy and Captain America. In Issue #28, the Skull's attempt to build a new army of followers finds him appealing to America's disillusioned young men, preying on their fears and loneliness and inviting them to follow him in order to find their purpose. Specifically, he offers his 10 Rules For Life, a book of solutions that is also his means of psychologically brainwashing young men in order to convert them to his cause. Coates, with these particulars, has made a distinct parallel between the Red Skull and real-world psychologist, educator and renowned Canadian speaker JORDAN PETERSON, a controversial figure himself and author of the book 12 Rules For Life. Peterson, incredibly smart and well-versed, also makes no secret of his many conservative viewpoints, and Captain America #28 and its parallels make no secret of how Coates feels about them. Whether he goes too far in comparing Peterson to the Red Skull, a long-established Nazi inside the Marvel Universe whose greatest enemy is the embodiment of American virtue, is a conclusion left to the reader to make, but Coates' argument is made clear, nonetheless. Whether he should have used the issue as a platform for criticism, what the reasons which motivated Coates to do so are in the first place, and if doing so might somehow suggest something about the writer's integrity all remain lingering questions that the writer has not addressed. More than a superhero comic book, Captain America #28 is a stand-out example of a much broader aspect of our culture, one worthy of concern by publishers, writers, artists and, most off all, fans and readers of the genre and, really, any genre. It's a book that every collection deserves, and which deserves due consideration by those who collect it. CAPTAIN AMERICA #28-A(VOL. 8, MAY 2021)Alex Ross Regular Art Main CoverControversial Issue: Jordan Peterson as Red Skull / 10 Rules For LifeFirst Printing "Skull Fracture!" 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