Peter: I’ve seen that look before…you’ve got a story, don’t you?
Steve: Peter—
Peter: C’mon, Grampa Steve…tell us a story. When the whole country is against you…when it’s all bearing down on you like some ten-ton weight, and you don’t know your heart anymore sometimes - how does someone like you deal with it? I mean, yo practically are the country. How does the man who is the country react when the country goes a different way?
Steve: You really want to know?
Peter: I don’t want to know, Cap - I need to know.
Steve: I remember the first time I really understood what it was to be an American…what it was to be a patriot. I was just a kid…a million years ago, it seems sometimes. Maybe twelve. I was reading Mark Twain. And he wrote something that struck me right down to my core…something so powerful, so true, that it changed my life. I memorized it so I could repeat it to myself, over and over across the years. He wrote -
“In a Republic, who is ‘the country’? Is it the government which is for the moment in the saddle? Why the government is merely a temporary servant; it cannot be its prerogative what is right and what is wrong, and decide who is a patriot and who isn’t. Its function is to obey orders, not originate them. Who, then, is ‘the country’? Is it the newspaper? Is it the pulpit? Why, these are mere parts of the country, not the whole of it; they have not command, they have only their little share in command. In a monarchy, the king and his family are the country; in a Republic, it is the common voice of the people. Each of you, for himself, by himself and on his own responsibility, must speak. It is a solemn and weighty responsibility, and not lightly to be flung aside at the bullying of pulpit, press, government, or the empty catchphrases of politicians. Each must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, and which course is patriotic and which isn’t. You cannot shirk this and be a man. To decide it against your own convictions is to be an unqualified and inexcusable traitor, both to yourself and to your country, let men label you as they may. If you alone of all the nation shall decide one way, and that way be the right way acording to your convictions of the right, you have done your duty by yourself and by your country. Hold up your head and have nothing to be ashamed of.”
Doesn’t matter what the press says. Doesn’t matter what the politicians or the mobs say. Doesn’t matter if the whole country decides that something wrong is something right. This nation was founded on one principal above all else: the requirement that we stand up for what we believe, no matter the odds or the consequences. When the mob and the press and the whole world tell you to move, your job is to plant yourself like a tree beside the river of truth, and tell the whole world - “No, you move.”
Peter: Can I, like, carry your books to school? For the rest of my life?
Steve: Come on…time to get you back to the rest of the group.
Peter: I mean it. I can give you my lunch. My aunt made tuna sandwiches. Again.
Peter (narrating): And as I run towards the edge of the roof, off the edge of what I’ve known and into the darkness of whatever’s coming, beside the one hero who will never betray his convictions, never betray those who followed him, I think - it feels good to be on the right side again.
The Amazing Spider-Man - #537
This is a huge part of why Captain America means so much to me, one very faithless and sad and confused person in this country, afraid of my country, afraid of what she can’t do for her country.
Kicking off Marvel NOW! this week is Uncanny Avengers #1!
I was not a fan of this summer’s wide spread event, Avengers vs X-Men. I read very little of it, enjoyed basically none of it, but I’m alright with following it’s aftermath just on the general idea of the event. I just have no interest in reading all of it. Still, it was a huge event and there is a lot for the characters to deal with now that it’s finished. Being that I didn’t read AvX I still really enjoyed this comic.
Every page is about AvX and that’s going to go on for some time I’m sure. I still see that it’s possible it’ll break away eventually and head more towards focusing on the goal of standing up for the mutants while still protecting the people… without talking about Scott and AvX every other sentence.
This is the first Avengers title without Bendis writing that I’ll be reading, but I do read and enjoy Remender’s Uncanny X-Force. Which is why I love the variant cover I reblogged a few minutes ago, with Deadpool’s list of ‘reasons I should be an Avenger’ and his X-Force costume in the trashcan. (Sam Humphries reboots Uncanny X-Force this January.)
I’m coming to that point in time where I really need to decide which Marvel Now! titles I’m going to add to my subscription.
But I’m still torn.
The only thing I’m decided on right now is Iron Man and Deadpool. And I think I have to get Avengers Arena because… ugh, it might be terrible and it might be really aggravating but I just gotta know what happens. And if it turns out to be great I would have to kick myself later, and that would suck.
Uncanny Avengers, aaahhhh, want but seriously I didn’t follow AvX a lot because it was too much to buy, too much to read, and the first few issues I really didn’t care about anyway. It was another one of those Marvel plots that was like… Wow this is totally unneccassary. Wow this isn’t over yet. Wow you’re going to make this really important and make it impossible for me to not read it if I want to understand anything that happens afterwards aren’t you. Goddammit. So I don’t know if Uncanny Avengers is just gonna really confuse me because it’s an aftermath plot.
I kind of feel like I’m done with Uncanny X-Force at this point… But it’s hard to let stuff go, even when you’re losing interest.
I’m interested in Fantastic Four (omg Mark Bagley guys!) but not FF. Can I seriously not get both though, and still understand what’s going on? Would that be lame of me? It seems like they’re obligated to be read together…
Mmeeeehhhh Captain Americaaaaa, aaaah, too many comics, so little money aaahhhh.
Someone come help me aaahhhh
Steve: Thor, would you please round up Mr. Kraven?
Thor: No.
Steve: Hawkeye?
Clint: I really don’t want to waste the hardware.
Steve: Please.
Clint: Guy can haul it. Gotta give him that. … Right calf. -grins-
“Peter?” A flash of fire shined behind his eyelids.
“Peter?” Something smooth but heavy collided with his face. He felt himself lift up, like he was going to take off and fly.
Everything he knew crashed down around him when he woke up in a hospital bed. He hadn’t been in a hospital since he was nine when Aunt May broke her arm. Peter’s arm was in a cast. Where was his Aunt May now?
Everything Peter knew was being swept up on the corner of 83rd and 2nd. He’d never seen the road so wild, thinking NYC traffic didn’t allow for it. Unfortunately fifty year old men driving twenty thousand pound semi trucks sometimes drink when their third wife takes their money and runs. And sometimes they think they’re slamming their breaks at the last minute to stop at a red light but in their drunken state they get the pedals mixed up in their head.
His eyes opened and he didn’t know how to feel. Thankful to be alive or regretful. At first he could feel the awkward numbing sensation stirring in his wrist. The parts inside of his arm felt out of place and that would explain why it was covered in gauze and plaster. His other arm was wrapped but he didn’t know it was because he was left with burns from his thumb to his elbow. Next he felt a throbbing around his eye and it stinging cut above his brow. He flew forward in the car and his face slammed into the headrest of the passenger seat. Then his temple made impact with the window despite his seatbelt. At some point the car flipped and Peter was found wedged between backseat and the dashboard. The gap between the two had gone from three yards to just inches. Obviously Peter was in much better shape than Uncle Ben’s car. Where was his Uncle Ben now?
Anonymous asked you: Will you please make a gif set of an awkward dinner between tony, Steve, peter, and Gwen? Thank you!
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