tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7105844689832543332.post9203921053581050118..comments2024-03-27T11:32:34.392-07:00Comments on NOT A HOAX! NOT A DREAM!: CAPTAIN AMERICA #247Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14580725636327122073noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7105844689832543332.post-16446486859950544082022-01-21T23:25:37.395-08:002022-01-21T23:25:37.395-08:00// I take a peculiar pleasure in seeing continuity...<br><i>// I take a peculiar pleasure in seeing continuity repairs take place … //</i><br /><br />Ditto. I’ve also long been fond of stories that delve into what TV shows like <i>The X-Files</i> started calling mythology and we comics fans have long known as continuity, even when I’m not a particular fan of the mythos. Back in 7th, 8th grade I read a few of a friend’s <i>Doctor Who</i> books after he explained some of the series’ framework, despite me only having seen a few scattershot episodes of the Fourth Doctor on PBS, and the novelization of <i>The Five Doctors</i> fascinated me.<br /><br />Likewise ditto to your evidence of Stern knowing how to write Cap. There’s a comment on the opening pages as he runs across the Brooklyn Bridge from a jogger who observes how utterly confident he looks. Dugan notes to himself later that Cap is restored to his usual self-assured demeanor after reading the journal entry, yet we’d seen him be unflappably commanding at the SHIELD outpost when his agenda called for it. Which come to think of it is at least as much writing about characters <i>around</i> Cap, but still. Anyway, reading or watching a certain kind of protagonist, especially one like Batman or Cap whose defining abilities are their unerring determination, preparation, and/or adaptation to circumstance in such moments, I’ll frequently think of that “competence fetish” you mentioned once upon a blogpost.<br /><br>Blamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07342343767763035991noreply@blogger.com