http://sequart.org advancing comics as art Sun, 19 Apr 2026 18:44:55 +0000 en hourly 1 http://sequart.org/magazine/56065/capital-thoughts-all-new-captain-america-4/ http://sequart.org/magazine/56065/capital-thoughts-all-new-captain-america-4/#comments Tue, 17 Mar 2015 11:00:39 +0000 Jeffrey Kahan http://sequart.org/?p=56065 In what is now a common trope, Sam Wilson, aka, the All-New Captain America, is getting his ass kicked, this time by Armadillo, a third-rate villain who first appeared in Cap #308 (August, 1985; Gruenwald/Neary/… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/54606/capital-thoughts-all-new-captain-america-3/ http://sequart.org/magazine/54606/capital-thoughts-all-new-captain-america-3/#comments Sat, 07 Feb 2015 12:00:26 +0000 Jeffrey Kahan http://sequart.org/?p=54606 As much as I find Remender’s recent storylines to be thought-provoking, Sam Wilson’s backstory is one long cliché: inner city youth, a community ravaged by drugs, his parents die; Sam then raises his siblings and… [more]]]> 0 http://sequart.org/magazine/53939/capital-thoughts-all-new-captain-america-2/ http://sequart.org/magazine/53939/capital-thoughts-all-new-captain-america-2/#comments Wed, 14 Jan 2015 12:00:44 +0000 Jeffrey Kahan http://sequart.org/?p=53939 Karl Marx, writing on the Anglo-French wars, observed that history repeats itself, first in tragedy then in farce.  His example was Napoleon, a man defeated by the combined armies of the United Kingdom, Netherlands, Hanover,… [more]]]> 2 http://sequart.org/magazine/52978/capital-thoughts-all-new-captain-america-1/ http://sequart.org/magazine/52978/capital-thoughts-all-new-captain-america-1/#comments Wed, 24 Dec 2014 12:00:18 +0000 Jeffrey Kahan http://sequart.org/?p=52978 The “All-New” Captain America begins, curiously enough, with a nostalgic turn:  Sam Wilson flying into a fortress and kicking Hydra ass.  But, even as fisticuffs fly, Sam’s mind is elsewhere:  he replays a childhood filled… [more]]]> 0