Looking at Sup Forums and feeling like the only person who’s enjoying Secret Empire. Like half the shit people are complaining about is just people genuinely not paying attention at all to the story.
1. “It’s fascist propaganda.”
You do realise that Hydra are the villains of this story right? That the whole situation with a fascist taking over the US is meant to be terrifying. That the story is meant to be making commentary on the kind of extreme right wing nutjobs rising up in politics lately and how wrong they are.
2. “It’s anti-semitic to make Cap a member of Hydra.”
It’s been pointed out before by many people, though I was @towritecomicsonherarms point it out first on my dash, that Stan Lee and Jack Kirby wrote a story where Red Skull managed to brainwash Cap into being a full blown Nazi. The two original Jewish creators of Cap made that story. All that is being done now is a more universe level brainwash, ie. cosmic cube, and we’re actually letting the story continue for more than an issue.
Also, again, do you not realize that Cap right now is meant to be the antithesis of what he’s supposed to be? I mean they basically beat you over the head with it in Secret Empire with this (picture)
The whole fucking point is that the true Steve Rogers would absolutely despise this version. The story is a ‘What if the villains won?’ In the case of Cap’s villains being fascists it’s terrifying.
3. “It’s anti-semitic because they made Wanda side with Hydra.”
You don’t think Wanda is being brainwashed? They have Odinson on their side too and something tells me that he hasn’t suddenly become a fascist either. They even mention brainwashing multiple times in #1 and SHIELD is scared by how fast they are managing to turn their own people against them with brainwashing in #0.