I like the character a lot-he’s sort of an everyman, he’s got a good sense of humor. I’d written Sam a little as Falcon, and found the voice came pretty easily. You've written Steve Rogers as Captain America a few times before, what has writing Sam Wilson been like? The Daily Beast talked to Spencer about writing Sam as Captain America ( Captain America: Sam Wilson #2 hit retailers this week) and what he thought of the Fox and Friends segment. “So when you see people saying ‘He’s talking about me!’ well, unless you’re going down and kidnapping or murdering border crossers, no, we weren’t.” “We were very clear in the book-these were not peaceful protesters of border policy,” Spencer says. “There is nothing better than being proven right,” he says. The headlines were meant as a joke-making Fox’s earnest, unwitting parallel of the hysteria all the more surreal for Spencer. ( Sam Wilson: Captain Anti-America? Cap Versus the Constitution? Captain America Approval Rating Plummets Under 50 Percent!) In a sharp bit of comedy, Spencer (who also writes Marvel’s funny and poignant Astonishing Ant-Man, as well as Morning Glories and The Fix for Image Comics) omits the actual content of Wilson’s statement and cuts straight to reactionary, satiric headlines. The good hosts of Fox and Friends proved him wrong.Įarlier in the issue, Wilson had delivered a statement publicly acknowledging his own political beliefs-a significant, decidedly un-Steve Rogers move.

In writing a racist group of armed vigilantes who violently attack, abduct, or kill border crossers into his book, Spencer didn’t expect anyone to sympathize with, let alone defend what he thought was an obvious group of villains. “Also,” the Serpents’ leader booms at the immigrants, “You know how you make me press a 1 for English at the beginning of every call to my satellite provider? That is something I cannot abide!” They lovingly refer to a hypothetical “mighty Wall,” accuse all Mexicans of stealing jobs, seeking welfare, and bringing “trouble and disease and crime,” and piously invoke America’s “greatness.” The masked Serpents, with their big guns and their big, muscly arms, resemble a militarized Ku Klux Klan and spew recognizable Trump-isms at a group of unarmed immigrants. Once there, the star-spangled Avenger faced off against one of Cap’s oldest enemies, the Sons of the Serpent-a white supremacist terror group suspected of kidnapping and possibly killing Mexicans caught crossing the desert. Sam Wilson, aka Captain America, was only trying to be a hero when he flew to the U.S.-Mexico border in Arizona to investigate the disappearance of a Mexican teenager in the first issue of Nick Spencer’s post- Secret Wars series Captain America: Sam Wilson.

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