Well, the basic key to John Walker is the fact he is not Steve Rogers. U.S. Agent dresses like Captain America but is...

>Well, the basic key to John Walker is the fact he is not Steve Rogers. U.S. Agent dresses like Captain America but is, in fact, not Captain America. The whole point of the character is to help better define who Captain America is, or more pointedly, who or what Cap is not.
>Walker is impatient, fast-tempered, judgmental, cynical; a deeply flawed mirror of the impeccable warrior Cap represents. Within those flaws lies his humanity, a kind of Bruce Willis willingness to inject himself into perilous situations simply because it is the right thing to do.
>John Walker is a guy who tries hard. He's Joe Lunchbucket, All-American. He's worth rooting for.

Thank god for Priest.

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>You're kicking things off by revoking John Walker's government clearance, and essentially turning U.S. Agent into a private military contractor. What does this mean to the guy who once replaced Steve Rogers as the official Captain America? Where does this put his mindset?
>Priest: As a government contractor, John is paid a lot more money to do a lot less work. He is actually doing grunt work - force protection, monitoring, etc. - and making quite the buck doing it. So it's similar to what he'd been doing, but much less glamorous or exciting, like being fired from the police force only to become a private security guard at the police motor pool dispatch office. Real cops snicker at you as they punch out for the night.

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>Nrama: The idea of private contractors replacing dedicated employees is more and more common in general, especially in the comic book industry. Recognizing the wildly different stakes at hand, how does that real world shift inform the perspective you're bringing to U.S. Agent?
>Priest: I actually got the idea when I realized an increasingly large percentage of so-called "government agents" are, in fact, contractors--temps with machine guns. Living in a military town in Colorado, I came to know many government contractors, although most of my friends rode desks at military installations and did things they couldn't chat about over supper.
>It's possible the pay and benefits disparity is leading to an erosion of qualified career agents and soldiers as the private sector, with its eight weeks paid vacation and vastly higher pay scales for people with Top Secret or Code Word clearance (shout out to Tom King) becomes a strong draw. As I see him, Walker would much rather remain 'official,' even if he's still doing a watered-down version of his job.
>I only have five issues, which is frustrating because the character really did need a makeover, and all of this new infrastructure had to be put in place and backstories reestablished. I thought, in order to define what John's actual job is, it might be best to take the job away and give it to someone else. Then our narrative can be about the job and why it has value to both John Walker and America.

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>On that note, John Walker has never been one to keep mum about his opinions, political and otherwise. How does a character like that, who has often been controversial, fit into the 2020 superhero landscape?
>Priest: Not very well.
>I wonder what the difference is between, say, John Walker and Dave Chappelle.
>People pay a lot of money to go sit in a theater and watch Dave smoke, which no characters can do in comics anymore because somebody somewhere actually thinks comic books are read exclusively by children. There's a lot of decisions being made for the industry by people who are not in the industry but who have influence on or control over the industry.
>It's a lot like my Aunt Ruby lecturing me on how to replace the ABS module on my car.
>Dave Chapelle is going to be Dave Chapelle. He is going to offend somebody. But, ironically, the people in his audience seem to accept that; that's the social contract when you go to see Dave. If you're thin-skinned, if you take a comedian seriously, you really should find other entertainment for the evening.
>The comic says 'U.S. Agent,' not 'Christopher Priest,' so I'm at a disadvantage. If people were buying a comic marked 'Christopher Priest,' well, therein would be a similar social contract: Priest has a cynical sense of humor and likes tipping over sacred cows. He gets to do a lot of that over at Dynamite because those books are labeled and marketed to an adult audience.
>I'd love to write an 'adult swim' U.S. Agent, a book where John can be more fully be John. But even the stuff writers did in the '80s and '90s simply won't fly anymore.

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>I'd love to write an 'adult swim' U.S. Agent, a book where John can be more fully be John. But even the stuff writers did in the '80s and '90s simply won't fly anymore.
I miss those times, we all could laugh together without all that bullshit.

US Agent is healed? i thought this guy was a cripple now?

He's fine since 2012

Goddamn I wish this book just went for 50 issues instead if a mini

And no, don't give me the rah-rah speech, part of the aforementioned Christopher Priest social contract is accepting that his books don't get to blow up the sales charts

so this guy is like edgy captain america?