David Kronke was appointed Mayor of Television after a bloodless coup in 2000. Since then, he has improved infrastructure, championed greater educational opportunities and fought for reforms that have utterly erased corruption and incompetence from the television industry. Since Mr. Kronke has ascended to power, Television is a far better place. Cap,’ We Hardly Knew Ye
Comic-book icon Captain America is dead, the victim of a sniper’s bullets.
Captain America was sort of Marvel’s answer to Superman, a stolid, vaguely prosaic, somewhat personality-impaired hero, particularly when compared to the more colorful superheroes found between the pages of comics. So, like a “Star Trek” redshirt, he was expendable.
But his death is also earning the comic book more attention than it’s had in years, and even some Zeitgeisty speculation as to the timing. Cap was created in 1941, as The Greatest Generation was gearing up to battle Hitler; killing him off when America’s mired in Iraq, the White House is drowning in scandal and many are decrying the erosion of civil liberties seems a particularly symbolic gesture.
Then again, Superman got smote back in 1994 and he seems no worse for wear today. Funny-book Captain America will likely return, but maybe not before the funny-book America he was dedicated to protecting does. And it's come to this: We have to look to comic books for what passes these days as trenchant political analysis.
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I was thinking some of the same things about the timing of the death of Cap. I found it particularly ironic that I learned of his demise on the same day I watched "Ghosts of Abu Ghraib".
Posted by: The Zoner | March 8, 2007 9:27 AM