All-America Comix #1: The Z in Me

[superboyprime]

'I’m grateful when anything I’ve created (or co-created) goes on to have any kind of life of its own. The way that certain characters have connected with certain fans is a really special, beautiful thing. But I’m also grateful that I’m in a position to be able to travel down my own creative avenues when I feel like it...and that’s all we’re doing here. It’s not meant to diminish what anyone else happens to like. This is "comicbooks." There’s room for all of us.' - Joe Casey

Comments

[leahandillyana]

I'm surprised this didn’t result in a lawsuit.

[dan_ingram]

Heh, Joe Casey trying to reclaim the Miss America that he, for all intents and purposes, did not create.

[icon_uk]

The House to Astonish podcast coverage fo this issue was very good. It's basically a perfectly decent first issue of an America Chavez series, but as a one-shot using almost-but-not-America Chavez, it's just inexplicable.

[aperturedreams]

This may be the most blatant rip-off analogue of Marvel or DC characters I've ever seen. Makes the Squadron Supreme or DC's "Retailiators" look like entirely original creations.

[donnblake]

I'll admit, when I first read this, I assumed this *was* Miss America Chavez, and this was just an in-multiverse alternate set of Avengers.

...

Maybe I'm just a grumpy old millennial, but I hope this isn't actually meant to be the heroine live-tweeting in the middle of superhero battles. That just seems irresponsible.

[thanekos]

Joe Casey's motives for just barely filing the serial numbers off of Marvel-owned characters here might not be as well regarded as others - but as an instance of that, this is great.

(At the very least, this is better than work-for-hire that will someday achieve the high honor of being grist for the work of some editorially approved hack - except maybe in terms of renumeration.)

[silverhammerman]

I've never seen or heard the term "screenager" before in my life. Such are the risks of a middle aged man writing hip teens.

I'm maybe a bigger fan of Joe Casey than most, and I genuinely enjoyed some of his high concept superhero stuff like in Catalyst Comix or Captain Victory, so I won't really dismiss this out of hand. That said, this is still such a weird book to exist. Like a lot of people I'd kind of thought back when this was first announced several years ago that it was just Casey's way of forcing Marvel's hand in actually giving America Chavez an ongoing, and I never really expected this to come out, much less as an incredibly thinly veiled take on Ms. America and the Marvel Universe as a whole, or that he would use it to follow up on his not-very-well-regarded Vengeance series with Ultimate Nullifier.

America Chavez grew a lot after Casey's involvement with the character, and my interest in seeing what he has to say about her is marginal, but there is a chance that this will do something interesting.

[beyondthefringe]

Um.......
Yeah.
Casey isn’t even trying to hide the serial numbers on this one. At most he drew a line through them with a magic marker.
I wonder if the presence of the Ultimate Nullifier knockoff, with whom America had a thing in Vengeance, means this version of America is less gay than her Marvel counterpart.
This is such a weird title to exist.

[kamino_neko]

Other people have already commented on the 'barely filing the serial numbers off' aspect, so I'm just going to say I find it very strange that that profile page is done in the style of DC's Who's Who, when the rest of the book is so blatantly Marvel.

[mastermahan]

Yes, Joe Casey created America Chavez, but Kieron Gillan made her interesting. Casey's America couldn't travel between dimension - she actually needed to be rescued from another dimension in Vengence. She wore a cleave-y flag halter top rather than the street clothes and jacket. She peppered her speech with Spanish curses like puta and cohones.

This feels like some weird pissing match.

[mesmiranda]

...wait, this isn't Miss America/America Chavez?

[long_silence]

I will always remember Joe Casey as the guy who created America Chavez and said that he envisioned her never wearing underwear into battle, and that was somehow an important character trait

So I pretty much stopped caring about anything he had to say about the character after that

[sarahnewlin]

Who's the guy in the doorway