This post is like a sequel of sorts to the last post. No, as you can clearly see from this image it is NOT another Rippaverse comic. This is clearly something made by Marvel. In 2017? or 2016? People started getting angry at Marvel Comics for including more characters that weren’t white dudes. Several characters had died (like they do in comic books) and were replaced by characters who were like Asian and black and all that. They’ve been doing stories where one character replaces another for a little while going alllll the way back to the 1970s with Steve Englehart and Captain America. It’s honestly a good way to introduce a new spinoff character and I liked all of those that I read. Like genuinely liked them. Want to try to find the original issues liked them. I thought the new characters like Ironheart and the Nadia Van Dyne Wasp were very entertaining and fun to read. I was having a ball reading all this new stuff. I stopped because buying more than like 5 new comics at a time is a literal money sink and you can get better value by buying trades and stuff but it was legit fun for me.
So I guess in their minds I am woke, whatever the hell it means. Does that mean I won’t freak out over a random panel of a comic book taken out of context and yell and scream about it because it has maybe the slightest tinge of political-ness to it. (Most of them are weird and cringy but I could literally find a ton of weird and cringy panels that would misrepresent a lot of really enjoyable comic books) or am I woke because I won’t listen to a old man youtuber yell and scream about how say The Marvels or Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny are woke because they have a lady character in them. I might be misremebering but Indiana Jones had a lady character in every single fucking movie he was in well except Last Crusade. I think. All of them were lively fun characters. Hell the lady in Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny was one of the reasons I thought the movie was fun. She was clearly trying, so was the kid actor. Harrison Ford was 79-80 filming that movie and clearly doesn’t care about acting like he used too. That’s two reasons why a lot of the Indy based action was just okay. the fact that movie was okay is a fucking miracle. The Marvels I actually really adored and thought was the first Marvel Movie I’ve seen since Thor Ragnarok that I’d rate over 3.5 stars and the first one since that one that was actually legit funny too. Maybe I’d consider Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny one of the worst things ever filmed if I didn’t willingly watch movies that were made by people who should have been put in a mental ward for fun. I don’t think screaming WOKE is good criticism and it never will be. Ever.
So why did I decide on this comic again? Well it was because it was one that I read back then and didn’t like, at all. So I want to see the entire thing as a whole, see where I really lie with the entire product and see how it was. So America Chavez was a character created in 2011. She’s still new-ish especially when you realize the comics I read were made pre 1990 in most cases. She was created by Joe Casey and Nick Dragotta. She appeared in Young Avengers (which was pretty good and probably why I picked this comic out), The Ultimates (not by Mark Millar but by someone who isn’t a edgelord goober) A-Force and West Coast Avengers by Kelly Thompson. I like that Kelly Thompson, she’s very talented.
Anyway how is issue #1: It starts out with America Chavez and the Ultimates (Blue Adam, Black Panther, Monica Rambeau and Captain Marvel fighting a crazy alien energy being. America Chavez beats it with one punch and they end up leaving. She’s actually surprised and internally worried (she’s one of those cool customer characters that never let on that they are scared shitless) she then goes to her girlfriend and they have some relationship trouble (her girlfriend doesnt want to go to the college so far away) the college is called Sotamayer University. I think thats one of those Supreme Court people. People complained about this but I see no problem with it. Buildings and places and everything is named after politicals of every stripe. It’s not a terrible thing.
Another thing they complained about was America having two mothers (who sacrificed themselves to save the multiverse) and I’m like she’s a weird alien multiverse character person who can punch holes into other multiverses and I honestly like that kinda crazy comic book stuff. It’s one of those things that can only happen in a comic book like radioactive spiders giving you superpowers. Go wild with that shit. They sadly retconned it and I was happier with multiverse lesbians because I like wild ass ideas that just go where ever the hell they please. She meets Prodigy a ex-mutant and ex-Young Avenger. He solves the problem (she had just randomly walked into her class late and they were doing a hologram stimulation thing and if you got hurt in it you got hurt for real. She also wrote possibly the worst piece of dialogue I’ve ever seen in anything. “What in the Holy Menstruation” Yes. That’s here. And it’s bad.
Then she finds out that Prodigy has been working on a time machine and just jumps right in and yes she goes back to World War II to punch Hitler in the face. Weird that he’s just randomly on the battlefield. So it’s time for issue #2 she ends up meeting Peggy Carter (because why not. She’s already had Captain America, Kate Bishop Hawkeye, Prodigy and The Ultimates already in issue #1) Anyway she actually tells America that she fucked up as they were trying to capture Hitler or something. Maybe kill him. Way to take the fun out of a Hitler Punch, Peggy you jerk. Anyway she gets America to come with her. Then tells her she knows about her somehow. Then Nazis drill into the hidey hole they went into and America punches a multiverse hole and just goes home. Then she saves some random Preppies who were trying to mess with the hologram of Sonia Sotomayor. She wasn’t a fan of that. Anyway some cool 1990s freaky ass mixed race lesbian gang comes by and tells her that she’s gonna miss that freaky smart 9 year old and her dinosaur! That’s right Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur are here baby!
Moon Girl talks about being great and then gives people a project on how to make themselves even better. Tells them to create a prototype even, so America teams up with the lesbian leader of the gang and mentions how she can now travel in time too but she cant pick where shes going and that’s whats keeping her from being GREAT. So they start trying to work on it and a trash can comes flying into the room. The preppies are actually cyborgs and America and the cool 1990s Freaky ass mixed race lesbian gang have to fight them. Lunella hacks into the cyborgs and they get turned off. Now it turns out that the girl from the first issue that America saved and is now mad that she didnt get a friend request back kidnapped her girlfriend and now America has to fight the America Guerrillas.
These two comic books were weird and wild but holy shit were they all over the place. The dialogue was over the place too, some of it was great, some of it was way too on point to feel real and some was just downright shit garbage. I mean anyone is right to make fun of the line What in the Holy Menstruation. It’s a very stupid line to put in there. I cannot defend it. I will not defend it. However, unlike Isom #1-2, this comic feels like someone was at least passionate about it and not passionate about it making money from gullible goobers. I really really like the art by Joe Quinones. It’s nice and clean but still very expressive and entertaining. I also like how exicited this lady clearly was to use a lot of the Marvel characters. I can’t really get angry at her or the comic because well if somehow I got to write for Marvel you’d see a lot of random weird old characters no one cared about come back, some that only appeared maybe once. Just pop back up again because I dig the weird and obscure characters and find them fun. My story would also be all over the place and the dialogue would be too, I would probably also come up with something worse than Holy Menstruation. I would say that despite enjoying it a bit more this time I still can’t say I’m a big fan, but for whatever reason I do want to keep on reading so you’ll probably see reviews of America #3-4 sometime soon. I think a co-writer would have worked in this series’ favor. The story is just a bit too all over the place for me. It just feels like a simple story got made more complicated because the writer was just too excited to be doing a Marvel Comic. I’ve read better but I’ve certainly read worse. Still I’d be giving this comic a Not Recommended, but if something about it interests you then I can’t exactly stop you from checking it out.
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