Erstellt am: 18. 4. 2015 - 12:27 Uhr
Today's Webtip: Ancient Animated Marvel
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I think I have been a comic geek about as long as I have been a music geek. I can still vividly remember sitting in my room when I was 6, listening to rockabilly 45's on a plastic portable record player while leafing through the battered remains of my uncles comic collection.
That collection was a little bit of everything, from Caspar the Friendly Ghost to Ghost Rider. That collection eventually became contaminated with some Spire comics, but I still managed to become a Captain America fan from pretty early on.
Looking back, it was most likely those comics that informed my early political development. Despite having grown up in a christian fundamentalist and Republican surrounding, my grade-school self was a pretty staunch FDR New Deal type kid. Someone who believed in inclusion and empathy and solidarity. A view I could have really only learned from Steve Rogers.
Anyway, the point is, I've been reading and dreaming and thinking about comics for a very long time. I spent ages hoping that someone, somewhere would finally start making super-hero movies that did justice to some of the great art I experienced in the late 70's, 80's and 90's.
Marvels cinematic rebirth has pretty much answered those calls, but every now and then I like to get a reminder of just how far we have actually come.
If you want so see just how far that is, you really need to see the Captain America animated series from 1966. It's like a bad radio drama tacked on to bad drawings with moving mouths. But the script still has some unintentionally hilarious moments, weird vocabulary, and strange aesthetics.
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