Mr. America in Geoff Johns Justice Society of America
Was rereading Johns' second run on JSA and Mr. America gave a very bad impression to me. It felt like I was reading another version of Rorschach without the deconstruction angle. His super-hero origin is being a police detective who caught a serial killer of a young girl but had to let him go because the evidence was lost in a fire two days before his trial then he broke his hands, ribs and dragged him to his local FBI office to confess and sent the killer to prison for life. This is all internal narrative but it reads like everything he did with a smile on his face.
Super-heroes are a media with problems relating to fascism by individuals who take the law in their own hands but this portrayal really stood out to me in a bad way. We're supposed to like this guy like he's Captain America but he comes off like Elliott Stabler.