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Marvel's Ann Coulter Vs. Safe Space Terrorists In Today's Captain America…

Writer Nick Spencer is on a mission to make everyone hate him. Look, he knows it.

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He is after all the man who made Steve Rogers an agent of Hydra since day one.

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Who gave Red Skull all the best Donald Trump lines.

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But then also found room for the opposition.

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Today he has gone one step further in Captain America: Sam Wilson, giving us a Marvel analog for Ann Coulter, one Arielle Conner who is different to Ann in that she wears glasses.

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Seriously, those are some very distinctive spectacles that separate the fictional and the real-life individual.

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Naturally the new Falcon is up in arms. Or, you know, wings. And has a familiar reaction to Coulter Conner.

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Notice he's not totally on-message when it comes to Sam Wilson. We'll come back to that. But he needs a little help.captain-america-sam-wilson-2015-017-2017-digital-008

But it's not a case of just #SuperheroLivesMatter, everyone wants a say.

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And the chance for the Falcon to deliver a little rhetoric. See? Superhero comics are still about power fantasies, few people get the chance to say this to Ann Coulter herself.
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But it's time for that legendary Nick Spencer even-handedness of pissing people off. As the recent policy of universities and colleges banning certain speakers, or declaring safe spaces against hate-speech in all manner of facilities is targeted.

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And some of the very people who may have been cheering on many of the previous pages, find themselves the targets of satire. And "Bombshells" – the same name of the DC Comics title featuring a feminist sex-positive and more diverse take on classic DC characters – is the name of choice for this terrorist group.

Oh and the new Falcon goes off message again. He really should watch that.
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And there are some over familiar uses of language…

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And how does it resolve?

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Everyone as divided as before.

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And everyone hating Nick Spencer.

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Well, that does appear to be the new status quo… and at least Paul Renauld who, you know, drew it all, stays out of the crossfire.

Captain America: Sam Wilson #17 is published today. Reaction can be found across social media.


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Rich JohnstonAbout Rich Johnston

Founder of Bleeding Cool. The longest-serving digital news reporter in the world, since 1992. Author of The Flying Friar, Holed Up, The Avengefuls, Doctor Who: Room With A Deja Vu, The Many Murders Of Miss Cranbourne, Chase Variant. Lives in South-West London, works from Blacks on Dean Street, shops at Piranha Comics. Father of two. Political cartoonist.
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