Captain Confederacy returns

[trochee]

debunkingwhite posts about Captain Confederacy (now published on blogspot), which I remember from being a kid in Atlanta.

There's some controversy there (and elsewhere) about whether it's a racist comic.

In my opinion, it's a transparently dystopian, anti-racist piece of SF -- it's set in an alternate present where the Civil War ended in separation, and Jeremy Gray is the actor hired to play Captain Confederacy, a media symbol for the Confederacy. Over the course of the comic, he comes to doubt his handlers and the role of being a blue-eyed blond white guy being the media-created hero of a racist culture. (Captain America anyone?)

The discussion on debunkingwhite is also valuable, [ETA: and includes a link to this interview with CC's writer Will Shetterly].

Comments

[trochee.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure he's kidding.

If he's not, there will be words.

Words, I tell you.

[boobirdsfly.livejournal.com]

Now that's my kind of party !

[trochee.livejournal.com]

nice icon, capt. reynolds.