Why I hate Cap #SecretEmpire

May 1, 2017

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Thanks to Nick Spencer’s Secret Empire, I think I’m going to hate Captain America. To tell you the truth, I wasn’t really a fan of Cap at all. As a small kid I enjoyed watching every Spider-man segment from The Electric Company along with the 1967 Spider-man cartoon show and Spider-Man and his Amazing Friends from 1981. I used to watched the hit 70s’ TV show Bill Bixby’s The Incredible Hulk and The Incredible Hulk 1982 cartoon series.
I also remember watching The Fantastic Four along with the Flintstones cartoon series which featured The Thing. I enjoyed watching those shows, but I never was a real fan of any of the heroes who stared in those shows. I never watched the 90s’ version of Spider-man or The X-Men. Nor did I bother to watch any of the modern Marvel shows like Marvel’s Superhero Squad Show, Disney FX’s Avengers, Guardians of the Galaxy, or Ultimate Spider-Man. Didn’t like watching the 60s’ versions of Iron Man, Namor The Sub-Mariner, or Captain America, either.
Speaking of Captain America, Secret Empire has giving me a real good reason to regard Cap as my most hated Marvel character of them all. I don’t know who to hate, Deadpool or Cap. Deadpool is given too much comic book publicity and is highly annoying all the way down to the core.
Cap on the other hand is a self-righteous hypocritical superhero turned evil by the Cosmic Cube and is the major villain in the Secret Empire story line. If I have to choose between hating Deadpool and hating Cap most of all, I think I’ll pick the self-righteous Cap, leaving Deadpool as the second most hated Marvel character of mine.
You should know by now that my all time favorite and most beloved of all the Marvel Characters of mine is none other than The Punisher, the so-called “murderous piece of trash” and anti-hero (and harpist) who has more moral sense inside him than Cap. He kills criminals without hesitation. But he also has a very strong heart and empathy towards innocent people. He won’t kill innocent people and insists that no one must become like him because it’s not worth putting any valued life on the line when one finds themselves face to face with deadly villains who will give them no chance at living a dangerous, volatile life that only Frank can live.
Cap, on the other hand, doesn’t practice what he preaches; ends up killing a lot of people on many occasions voluntarily or involuntarily, innocent or guilty in spite of embracing the sanctity of human life just like any Marvel Hero who highly values human life like Spider-Man and Daredevil does.
I guess Cap won’t be embracing any kind of sanctity except for Hydra, the organization Cap now leads. Nowadays all he cares about is world conquest and for the world to fall under the rule of Hydra starting in the US where Cap takes over and subjugates all the US to the fascist and Nazi-style principals of Hydra while the Marvel Heroes flee underground to start a resistance movement. And you thought the current presidential administration is bad. Well, Cap’s administration in the Marvel universe is even worse! Resist Hydra and that stinkin’ Cap!

Oh I know exactly how Cap must be dealt with. Oh Frank…

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Sherry Konkus lives in Owosso, MI. She is the proud owner of the Camac Athena EX Concert Grand Harp named “Grover” and Camac Mademoiselle named “Ernie.” She’s also the proud author of The Punisher Harp Zone. Sherry is the one who came up with the idea of portraying The Punisher from Marvel Comics as the punishing harpist who plays the harp in memory of his family who was killed by the mob years ago.

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Why does The Punisher play the harp?

It’s easy to imagine The Punisher shooting up criminal hideouts and blowing off the heads of thugs and mob bosses as the ultimate punishment for their crimes. But it’s hard to imagine (and believe) that there is also very gentle side to The Punisher no one knows about except for The Defenders (Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, and Iron Fist), Microchip (aka David Linus Liberman), and Spider-man (aka Peter Parker) who actually saw and became amazed at him doing something no one has ever thought he could do with his violent hands– play the harp. A gentle stringed musical instrument no one could ever believe that The Punisher would have such talent and ability to use his otherwise destructive hands to gently and tenderly pluck and caress its strings.

Indeed, it’s very hard to imagine and believe that the Punisher’s violent hands that brake bones, strangle necks, and punch out guts are the very same hands that softly and tenderly pluck, caress, and gracefully sweep across the strings of the harp.

Why does he do it, you asked? Because Frank is doing this in memory of his family whom he communes with through songs, poems, and prayers as he gracefully wave his battle-scarred arms and hands across the strings to fill his private family shrine with harp music that moves The Punisher to joyful tears.

Where did the Idea of The Punisher and his Harp come from?

It’s a concept I, Sherry Konkus made up myself. It combines my new found obsession with The Punisher that I had since 2014 and my life long love for the harp. It is the very best concept I ever made. This is my version of The Punisher from Marvel Comics who is portrayed by me as the punishing harpist who plays the harp in memory of his late family who got killed by a criminal mob years ago and whenever he needs a break from waging a one man war against organized crime.

The Punisher was created by Gerry Conway with the help of artists John Romita, Sr. and Ross Andru. His name coined by Stan Lee. The Punisher is owned and trademarked by MARVEL.

The idea, concept, and inspiration behind The Punisher’s portrayal as The Punishing Harpist who plays the harp in memory of his family is in fact my own. Sweetest. Idea. Ever.

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Why I hate Cap #SecretEmpire