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The leftist website Death and Taxes (via Tea Party Patriots) has written a peculiar post where they seem to think that the part towards the end of Fear Itself where Capt. America forms a militia is meant to appeal to the Tea Party. They begin by asking:

Is Captain America forming a militia to appease the Tea Party?

What does the Tea Party truly have to do with militias and firearms? Of course there are activists concerned about the right to self-defense and the 2nd Amendment's own protections of the same, but that hasn't been their main concern. The main issue of the Tea Party is the healthcare system and economy that Obama has all but ruined.

As DC Comics relaunches almost its entire line, rival publisher Marvel Comics’ characters are dealing with an epic story called Fear Itself, in which Thor’s Asgardian foes team up with Sin, granddaughter of Captain America’s arch-rival, the Red Skull, to wreak havoc and terror around the world.

This presents Captain America with an opportunity to win back the real world’s Tea Party.

[...] the good Captain ends the latest issue of Fear Itself by preparing for war against his enemies, and declares, “This is the end of the world, fellas.”

“And I’m raising a militia to make a strike right here,” says Marvel’s most patriotic hero. This obviously fits into the right wing’s constitutionalist ideology, leaving readers and critics to wonder whether Marvel comics wants to win back the right wing.

Even if this isn’t a media ploy, Fear Itself has certainly revealed a new side to Captain America[...]

I think it is a ploy, unfortunately. And his forming a militia sounds rather absurd, since it could just as easily suggest a negative meaning to it; a better name for his roundup would be commando unit. It sounds more like the leftist site is trying to run a subtle smear of conservatives as bizarrely gun-happy (and how strange to see the Fear Itself writers depicting Cap with a gun, even if he is fighting an actual war against evil this time), and if the story was going to begin with something as insulting as this, then they're hardly making the story as a whole conservative-friendly, nor are they making it something a conservative can feel comfortable to begin reading.

And really, what proof is there that this story was ever meant to appeal to conservatives/Tea Party activists to begin with?

On top of all that, trying to win back conservatives via a company wide crossover that costs 3-4 dollars to buy in standard pamphlets is not the way to go in this day's pricings.

Labels: Captain America, crossoverloading, marvel comics, politics