God, hes left as on aur oun.
Remember, kids, dissent is wrong.
You get used to that bitter tang and there are some delicious moments, these days. Who’d’ve thought that Marvel Comics would ever possess a more sophisticated and nuanced approach to history and the big moral questions of the day—good, evil, the place of dissent and the responsibility of all citizens of a democratickish government to know and understand the consequences of the actions it undertakes on their behalf—than, oh, the National Review? —Well, me, for one. But I’m a weirdo.
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I hope you've bought their stock. Up over 100% in the year since I bought it.
Will Shetterly and Vince Stone did this "super-serum-parallels-Tuskeegee" bit first, at least seven or eight years ago, in the indy version of *Captain Confederacy*. Maybe not on purpose, but the base of the storyline was: Black man and woman are injected with super-serum by their government. Once everyone's sure it's safe, they inject a White man and woman with the same serum. The Whites go on to become media-manufactured superheroes who fight the Black superpowered man in staged battles to drum up good press for the (alternate-universe) Confederate government. The Black woman is "cast" as an "extra" in the scenarios, not as either hero or villain.
The catch was that the recipients of the serum needed continual access to it to live. Without it, they went into withdrawal and died.
Don't know whether I'd call it profound reading, though I enjoyed what I read of it back when, so...
I'm impressed, I'm actually tempted to buy anything rlating to Captain America for the first time in my life, I never even bought that comic as a child. Wrt the National Review, I'm impressed at the degree to which the Right has become a (extremely scary and powerful) parody of itself.
From a recent report of the American Go Association (that crazy game Russell Crowe plays so badly in A Beautiful Mind):
For the record, there are 6 of us, and this is problematic in a few instances, however, I would not part with any of them, and another voice would complicate matters. Also, I use the term “dissenter(s)” below as a lawyer. It is a term of respect, of strongly held view, and is not a derogatory term.
I found it pretty disturbing that someone felt this disclaimer necessary, regardless of their politics.