A review by lukeisthename34
Captain America: Sam Wilson, Vol. 3: Civil War II by Nick Spencer, Ángel Unzueta, Daniel Acuña

3.0

Ugh! So much to work with yet a swing and a miss. The subject matter is IMPORTANT! It's a great idea but no sooner do you start it up and have a great discussion of 'how would America treat a black man as Captain America'? you start to pull it back and have Steve become a Nazi and all that? But even more than that, I don't think Marvel understands, at times, how diversity should work. It does work when you have a character like Sam take over the mantle. It doesn't work when you have Rhodey die and have Sam have a meeting with his 'family' which is every single black hero in the universe, even those he never interacted with. When the focus becomes, 'Hey, let's make every black character interact with every other black character and all be friends and all be teams' then you're really running up against separate by equal and it REALLY, REALLLLLLLLY smacks of the sort of base accidental racism you get when you ask a black person if they know another black person JUST BECAUSE THEY ARE BLACK. 'Hey, Sam Wilson, I bet you know Storm, right?' That assumption is based on...........? Yeah. Nice try Marvel, but do better.