Chip Zdarsky is someone who doesn’t understand what’s wrong with the comic book industry, but Marvel Comics has brought him back into the fold after a failed run on Batman to helm Captain America in the latest reboot.

Marvel Comics doesn’t seem to know what to do with Captain America. The character stands for everything the Disney-owned company doesn’t support—classic Americana, conservatism, and the values of freedom.

The first big problem Marvel Comics faced with backlash for Captain America came in the mid-2010s, when in an event in a book called Captain America: Steve Rogers #, they showed the character saying “Hail Hydra,” which is Marvel-speak for “Heil Hitler.”

At the same time, they launched “All-New Captain America,” with Sam Wilson, aka The Falcon, taking the mantle under Rick Remender, a man famous for telling Trump supporters not to buy his comics. This iteration was eventually the template for changing the character in the movies.

It created an uproar among fans who hated seeing Steve Rogers treated this way, and it was clear that Marvel and HydraCap writer Nick Spencer wanted to make a commentary on conservative America that they were “actual Nazis” by pulling such a stunt.

It got no better for Cap writers, as they gave the character to race-baiter and anti-white activist, Ta-Nahesi Coates, for a run they kept him on for thirty issues despite lackluster sales.

In 2023, they tried a reboot again with J. Michael Straczynski returning to Marvel Comics for the first time in years, and it was clear the Babylon 5 creator didn’t know what to do with a patriotic superhero. The first arc had plenty of anti-Trump insinuations, but he eventually took the character to go off and fight some faerie war that didn’t play thematically with the character at all. He lasted only 16 issues before this most recent reboot.

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Marvel Comics Hires Chip Zdarsky, Who Turned Bruce Wayne Bisexual, To Write Captain America