Yes, Coates is really putting Steve through the wringer! Today's issue was yet another slice of greatness from this run.
Love everything about the story Coates is building. Man, it's going to be hard for Steve to turn things around.
As for the theory posted here about Dryad's ID, an intriguing guess. We'll see if it turns out to be true!
Like Secret Empire, I love and I hate his story at the same time. It's an excellent story, well-written, with a lot of twists.. But it's once again written by someone who don't like the symbol of Captain America, even if he likes Steve Rogers.
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My politics are broadly in line with Spencer's. But, his run on "Captain America" was too polemical, and his stance far too partisan. (Considering that he has a background in third-party politics, telling Republicans and conservatives not to read his work was exceptionally poor trade-craft.)Like Secret Empire, I love and I hate his story at the same time. It's an excellent story, well-written, with a lot of twists.. But it's once again written by someone who don't like the symbol of Captain America, even if he likes Steve Rogers.
I disagree with Coatse on more than I agree with him on. But, I am liking his run on "Captain America".
Either way, I would like to see Marvel give "Captain America" to a conservative writer in the near future. Characters like Captain America or DC's Uncle Sam are difficult (but not impossible) to write without being polemical. But, editors should take basic steps to avoid favoring one side of aisle at the expense of the other. "Captain America" was written by a controversial left-wing partisan in 2016. And, after a generic run, there is a follow-up arc written by another lefty.
I would like to see Marvel recognize that politics is a spectrum.
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Agree with you entirely. I would add that he may also be redefining it a little, which is good. Because that's how a character like Captain America stays relevant. Steve standing for "The Dream" has always been transformative, because what "The Dream" means evolves over the passage of time. And there's so many nuances to it that haven't been considered by previous writers. Coates is the perfect writer to modernize that definition for today's world.
I would hate that with a fiery passion. Roger Stern said it best, and bluntly, Steve Rogers is a New Deal Democrat. To change that flies in the face of who we know Steve Rogers to be (it's no coincidence that every time he's given up the mantle of his own volition it has been during a Republican term, re: Nomad happened during the Nixon administration and The Captain happened during the Reagan administration). And also, writers have NO responsibility to remain centered, none, nor should they. That's censorship and it's bullcrap. We got rid of the Comics Code of Authority for good, thank goodness, we absolutely do not need that crap back again dictating what can and can't go into a comic. If someone does not like a writers perspective, then they can just not buy the comic. The republicans are not entitled to having a comic catered specifically to them.
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About the only decent work done on Captain America by a right-wing comics artist is Frank Miller in Daredevil Born Again but Frankie boy was libertarian Randian back then in the '80s and he still had skill to write stuff that people who didn't agree with his politics could get in on, (Steve Ditko had that too back in the '60s). Apparently Miller when he was planning that Holy Terror abomination tried to pitch a Captain America project to Marvel but thankfully people turned him down.
To be honest, a "New deal democrat" would, conceivably be on the right today on a number of issues, which Coates has discussed and mentioned in his non-fiction essays. I don't see Captain America as being either liberal or conservative. He is broadly a fighter of super-villains and conspiracies and so on. That works with any administration coded to exist or not exist. I don't think the current Captain America comics are making him overtly liberal and so on.
in general, he seems like a pretty conservative guy to me but not right wing like John Walker.