Arrival of the fourth and penultimate installment of this limited series that is being published in Spain within the so-called Captain America Legacy numbering. We already have very clear what the objective of the enemies of the Captains network is. panini presents a new member of the group that comes to us from the need to protect women on those huge university campuses where some stalker does his thing.
a worldwide problem
As much as repeated campaigns seem to put men against the wall with patriarchy and other similar slogans as a weapon. Not all men are rapists or abusers, they are not even the exception but as usual, the one who commits the crime is the one who makes the most noise and therefore gives more visibility to the problem. Feminism is necessary, the fight for equal rights is a global issue. In some developed countries, the progress made in recent decades is reaching heights never seen before, all recognized by law. But it has not been an easy fight nor is the road fully traveled.
There are many countries where equality is far from being achieved and where the drive of everyone, men and women, becomes necessary and a goal to be achieved in the future. For now, it doesn’t hurt that the world of comics makes this problem visible even from the point of view of the masked vigilantes and what better representative for it than Arielle Agbayani. Campus Captain America. Brilliant student with a scholarship from the University of Hargrove (invention of the author because in the state of Massachusetts there is no center with that name, something logical to not point out any institution with a similar scourge).
diverting us from the path
Until now, Christopher Canwell had been introducing us to the members of the captains network as we progressed through the map of the United States. Now he offers us an unexpected, and necessary, new twist to turn to Aaron Fisher and let him be the one to bring Arielle into the group. Within the diversity that this series is committed to and that is representative of the country of opportunities that has attracted so many people from all over the world, the young Agbayani is of Filipino descent.
What was a Spanish colony until 1898, passed into US hands as compensation for the alleged sinking of the battleship Maine in Cuban waters. A historical fact that has often been questioned and that meant the loss of the few overseas colonies that remained to Spain, Cuba, Puerto Rico, the island of Guam and the aforementioned Philippines. Some even thought that in this review he got rid of the usual little history lesson. But it is that Cantwell gives a lot of play in these adventures of Captain America to talk about it.
Why the Philippines?
The answer is simple, the author designated for the creation of the character descends from there. Alyssa Wong was born in Surprise, a suburb of the Arizona capital, Phoenix, but that hasn’t stopped her from being a renowned science-fiction writer nominated for the most important awards in the genre such as Nebula, Locus or World Fantasy. In the world of comics she has already worked for both “majors” and in Marvel, apart from the Aero maxi series, she is involved in the new stage of Doctor Aphra, within the Star Wars franchise, in addition to other specific collaborations related to Iron Fist or Shang-Chi.
Wong joins Jodi Nishijima, another American with oriental roots, in what marks her debut within La Casa de las Ideas. Her clean-lined style is certainly influenced by manga, in fact her character’s eyes are an example of it, as well as the expression of her eyebrows. In the main story, the exchange of Eaglesham for Ron Lim is appreciated.
The veteran author performs much better than his predecessor in every way, leaving a better taste in the mouth to round off the episode of a series that will not go down in the annals of Captain America history but is very enjoyable while we wait for the reboot of the series. solo adventures of captain america Remember that after The United States of Captain America we will still continue with the miniseries that unites him with Iron Man, so the good things will still be waiting.