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Real life imitates comics, probably makes Joe Simon and Jack Kirby proud

The NY Post is reporting that 20-year-old Kevin Crawford allegedly, decked out in a skull mask that was colored red, walked into a Brooklyn bank last week and demanded $4,000 from the teller. He managed to make off with twice that, but was followed by a crowd and soon stopped by by Borough Park Shomrim volunteers — unarmed civilians set up by the Hasidic communities of NYC — until the police arrived.

While we can’t say if Crawford was paying deliberate tribute to the Red Skull, that villainous arch-nemesis of Captain America, or he was just frat-boy-psyched about the mask, we will say that whenever something Nazi-related can be struck down by those of Jewish origins, it’s always a good day.

The war bodes well for us

My friends, things are going well for us.

In Smithfield, Virginia, a show dog was recently bitten by a snake. Now, I know and you know that show dogs aren’t exactly the warriors that we would expect to fight on the battle-lines of war, nor do I think we would. They’re not fighting material, but they are propaganda machines. Think Captain America in the Marvel movie universe when he’s on stage punching theater-Hitler. That’s why this is great news for us. One of our enemy’s stars has been attacked by a rogue member of their forces? How can you possibly spin that in a positive way?

We don’t need to sit on our laurels, but frankly, it’s things are looking good at the moment.

MasterChugs Theater: ‘Captain America: The First Avenger’

I’m a big comic book movie fan. Hell, I’m a comic book fan. I’ll readily admit that I’m a sucker for the character that does good acts just because (as an only child for a fairly long time, and with no children living near me, and going to school that was in another town, comics were one of many forms of media that helped shape my childhood).

To tell the truth, though, I almost thought I was comic-book-superhero-movie’d out. I thought the genre had hit a wall. I thought the spandex onslaught that has been distinguished by Spider-Man, Iron Man, and the X-Men flicks had of late filled that particular cup to overflowing with sputtering also-rans. It doesn’t help that the most recent one, Green Lantern, really stunk.

Apparently not.

There’s nothing like crisp movie making execution — a spirited mix of action, sci-fi fantasy, humor, nostalgia, and romance — to blast through one’s enough-already reservations and been-there-done-that fatigue. That’s exactly what Captain America: The First Avenger does. Continue reading MasterChugs Theater: ‘Captain America: The First Avenger’

Our heroes are criminals

We have some bad news for you, folks. Superheroes, once thought to be instruments of good in a world on a speedy moral decline, are actually bad. First, we find out that Captain America was arrested after putting a burrito in his pants and drunkenly harassing a woman, now the Los Angeles Police Department is rounding up superheroes.

Famous names like Spider-man, Batman and Michael Jackson are getting arrested for “unlicensed” portrayal of their characters in Hollywood. The official story is that these are street actors who stand outside places like Grauman’s Chinese Theater posing with tourists, but we know they are real. Now they’re in handcuffs, as if those can hold them.

This angers the guy who plays the Hulk, which actually works out well for him.

Marvel is officially Un-American

Captain America still refuses to give us a quote.Non-American? Unamerican?

Whatever, Marvel is no longer a good American company.

It’s been a little more than a year since Marvel killed off Captain America, cowardly shooting him in the back with a sniper rifle. You’d think they’d treat the guy with some respect now that he’s dead right? We mean, even Nixon got the golden boy treatment when he kicked off.

But no! They’ve also editted his cameo out of the new Incredible Hulk film!

For shame, Marvel! What happened to loving your country and countrymen who stop bullets with flag-colored shields? Now say 10 Pledge of Allegiances and all will be forgiven.