This Is Unacceptable
I wasn't a big fan of Captain America when I was a little kid. I knew of him, of course, and I spent several hours in my front yard throwing around a trash can lid (in retrospect I'm a little grossed out that my parents let me play with a dirty trash can lid....ew), but I didn't really know what he was about. When I got a couple of years older the few issues featuring Cap I'd aquired didn't do much to inspire me. In the early 80s Cap was having some pretty standard superhero adventures, fighting guys like Batroc the Leaper and Mister Hyde, things that I could have gotten from a Spider-Man comic. I knew that he was supposed to be a natural leader and that he was kind of the moral center of the superhero community, he still didn't really stand out to me in the way I was expecting at the time. He was a patriotic-themed superhero, but he didn't have many adventures that capitalized on that theme. By contrast, however, I LOVED the All-Star Squadron. I ju
