NRA-loving comic book fans will soon have a new hero to fight against gun control laws. Come 2008, the popular fictional hero Captain America will be packing heat.
“When Captain America returns to the pages of his comic book in January, it won’t be his star-spangled new duds getting all the attention. Instead it will be what he’s wielding in his right hand, the one once reserved for pummeling the jaws of evil,” reports the Washington Post. ”Come next year, he’ll be gripping cold, hard steel.”
And he’ll be quite unique among his spandex-clad pals. Very few mainstream comic book heroes wield guns, and Batman has even sworn off ever using them.
“We definitely wanted a Captain America that still screamed, ‘This is Captain America,’ but this isn’t the same Cap you’ve been reading about,” Ed Brubaker, the comic book’s writer, told the paper. He added that he’s always tried to emphasize Captain America’s military background.
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