OMG Captain America R U On MySpace N YouTube?

For the past several days, fans have been grossed out by Civil War: FrontLine #11, a sub-series in Marvel’s Civil War series about what happens when a paranoid U.S. government passes the "Registration Act" requiring all superheroes to register with the government. Captain America leads an underground rebellion against the government, ripping up New York […]

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For the past several days, fans have been grossed out by Civil War: FrontLine #11, a sub-series in Marvel's Civil War series about what happens when a paranoid U.S. government passes the "Registration Act" requiring all superheroes to register with the government. Captain America leads an underground rebellion against the government, ripping up New York City in the process. FrontLine focuses on journalists covering the Registration Act violence, and in issue #11 former Alternative journalist Sally Floyd visits the now-imprisoned Captain America to give him a grilling. And this is where the hating on this issue can begin. For we must endure a scene in which Sally rips Captain America a new one for the terrible crime of . . . not having a MySpace account! Plus, not watching Nascar, not using YouTube, and (gasp!) not knowing who the latest winner of American Idol is!

Oh yes. Read below the fold for some choice bits from the amazing "hardball" questions about MySpace that Sally hurls at the former World War II super-soldier.

Sally: Let me ask you something sir: Do you know what MySpace is?

Captain A: I'm not sure I understand the relevance of that question, Sally.

Sally: No, you just don't understand the question, Sir. I'm trying to illustrate a point here, so bear with me. Do you know who won the last World Series, or who was the last American Idol? When was the last time you attended a Nascar race Watched teh Simpsons or logged onto YouTube to watch a stupid video? Answer?

Captain A: [befuddled silence]

Sally: Exactly. Never. You hold America up as some shining beacon of perfection but you know next to nothing about it.

Um, so all Captain A needs is a MySpace account to be righteous? Then it would be OK that he killed a bunch of innocent people in his fight with the government's hired superhero guns? I'm not really understanding the message here. And neither are the fans, who (as I said earlier) have been lambasting this issue with glee.

In an unsurprising twist, it turns out that FrontLine's cupcake-brained writer Paul Jenkins hardly knows what he's talking about. As my official comic book sensei Graeme McMillan pointed out: Captain America has a MySpace page. And one of his friends is the Doctor from Doctor Who!
Captain America on MySpace [via MySpace]