So this comic is a fun story. For a while I thought I’d just let it slip forever into the obscurity of my hard drive, but then I thought, Hey, Easy Buffer Stuffer. So here it is. But not without explanations!
John Krasinski, aka Jim from The Office, was for a while the frontrunner to play Captain America. I totally thought he was gonna get it. I was 90% sure. And so I drew this comic. And, because I’m not terribly smart, I kept it until the day that this would be inevitably, officially announced as Happening.
I say this is not terribly smart because Joel Watson of Hijinks Ensue (who is, coincidentally, one of the Best People in the World) had the very exact same idea for a strip and published his immediately. Well, fuck. Good show, Joel. Good show. So not only was I beaten to the punchline through my own misplaced caution, but then the idea behind the strip ended up not even happening. Johnny Storm gets to be Captain America instead.
Long story short, have this strip anyway. I worked on it, so people should at least see it! It was originally gonna run in March, but… well. Sometimes we don’t get what we want.
Especially since what I really wanted was for Jim to be Captain America. That would have been awesome.
Oh wait, that was supposed to be Steve Carrell and Rainn Wilson? I didn’t get that at all….ouch!
Yeah, I caught Wilson, but no offense to Willis, but that Steve Carrell is unrecognizable.
He’s openly admitted that his Steve Carrell sucks. Go back like 90378 strips and there’s one where he flat out says it.
Cap’s face seems familiar.
Where have I seen it before?
He’s…right….BEHIND YOU! AAAAH!
Stapler in jelly, nice. Does it still work when you get it out though?
I’ll lobby for Krasinski to play Captain America–in a remake of Easy Rider.
I’d still need it explained even if he had got the part. I never seem to see more than 1.3 seconds of The Office.
(1 second human recognition / reaction time + .3 second TV reaction to remote)
Not that I have any taste, I watched an entire episode of the new V. (ugh, now I feel like taking a shower)
I like John Krasinski. He seems like a down-to-Earth type of guy.
Don’t see him as Captain America, though. He would just seem… awkward in the role.
Not like Chris Evans is any better. I mean, fer cryin’ out loud in the mud, he’s already been established as Johnny Storm! Unless he changes his look completely*, Marvel Studios makes a real mind wipe device or some kind of time altering deal with Doctor Doom and his Time Platform erases… ya’ know what? Screw it. I don’t think I’m ever going to watch another Marvel film after this whole thing.
I mean, I kind of stopped watching whatever Marvel churned out after Hulk tanked (but the two Punisher films were seen and enjoyed… three, if Dolph Lundgren’s still counts) so don’t think this Captain America mis-handling is what’s setting me off completely. Just, I don’t know, can’t there be a bit more QC with these flicks?
– agent_of_the_8.
*(Matt Schulze went from playing Crease in Blade {vampire that said “We’ve got his pig sticker!” before the handle trap went off demolishing his hand} to playing Chupa in Blade II because he totally changed his appearance… but, to be fair, he went from a minor roll to a major supporting role and not ALREADY A MAJOR ROLL TO ANOTHER DIFFERENT MAJOR ROLL IN THE SAME FILM FRANCHISE SERIES.)
Hey, the Hulk sequel/reboot was good, and IM1 got a lot of praise.
Also: Anyone who thinks Krasinski wouldn’t make a great Captain America needs to watch a movie called Leatherheads. He plays a football player in like the 1930s. All-American white boy and all that stuff. Really plays the role well–and it’s what made me think he’d be a good Cap.
The Fantastic Four movies and the Marvel Studios movies are unconnected beyond where the source material comes from. FF was made under license by Fox, who have already expressed a desire to do a new movie rebooting the franchise anyway (they have to rush one, too, otherwise the rights will revert back to Marvel themselves). Iron Man was the first Marvel Studios movie and no prior film based on a Marvel comic is considered a part of the shared universe they’re setting up leading into Avengers.
Ang Lee’s
Crouching Banner HiddenHulk implicitly is, because the non-sucky Hulk is a sequel to it. Doubtful that they’ll refer to any specifics from it that aren’t from the original source material, though.In response to all 3 of ya’: I did say “kind of.” =)
Iron Man (and it’s sequel) are really, pretty good (and, seriously, who else BUT Robert Downey Junior would have nailed this role? Lol!), Incredible Hulk was decent and Kick Ass rocked… it’s just the stinkers (FF, FF2, GR, Blade: House of Chthon and it’s tv series + the direct-to-dvd Man-Thing, anybody?) that are in between which makes me have a bit of caution when looking through the DVD racks at my local Hastings.
Completely forgot about the whole “only-certain-movies-will-be-official-canon-from-now-on” angle Marvel Studios is pushing. But that would kind of suck (upcoming pun intended) if all 3 Blade films are not included. Just seeing Sammy J. face to face with Wesley S. would be bad-ass in the M.U.! And Ray Stevenson’s version of Punisher!
Oh, there was a comic that should be commented on that Willis drew?
Michael Scott looks like he’s channeling a young Martin Scorsese. The cartoony Capt. is just too cool for words!
– agent_of_the_8.
I like Tom Jane as the Punisher better. Although I kinda hate the first Punisher movie. He wasn’t the Punisher ENOUGH in it. lol (He spent way too much time being victimized than being the Punisher.) The video game fixed that though.
Not that id make sense to anyone else..but for the laugh can you just redraw the Human Torch in Captain America’s place..then attach the explanation. I have no idea why I find that funny.
I greatly enjoy The Office, I watch the reruns every night. But that being said John Krasinski, never struck me as Cap. He’s likeable, relateable and all but something about him just doesn’t strike me as Cap.
I don’t think Chris Evans will hit it out of the park either, but he could surprise me. I enjoyed him in the Losers.
So who knows, this ole Cap fanboy might not have to QQ all up on the interwebs.
Ehhh, for the record I think your version of Cap is better. The whole Cap’s-costume-as-a-shirt-and-tie thing just doesn’t work for me.
I don’t get this one. at all.
John Krasinski, who plays Jim in the American version of The Office, was in the running for Captain America.
The Stapler in the Jello is a classic “Jim messes with Dwight” moment in season one of The Office.
Meanwhile, Mike was busy doing your mom.
Make sense now?
I find this funnier because Krasinski didn’t get the role. See, if he had gotten the role, we’d be plagued with dozens of web-comics essentially doing the same joke. Wouldn’t be that funny? But as a “what if”, it’s slightly more fresh.
Except this is actually the second webcomic to make this exact joke, as noted by Willis. But I suppose two is still better than dozens.
Now I will forever picture Captain America as Martin Freeman http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVPh_I_YlRM
I would have preferred Captain Awesome.
And if you don’t at least know about CHUCK (Mondays on NBC) then we and I is going to have problems.
Hahaha. Most of these don’t make me lol irl (just readin this comic for the plot) but this is pretty funny.
I live in the city Office takes place in, and even after watching a few episodes, I never found it to be this great thing everyone else makes it out to be.
Prolly cuz I KNOW how this city operates, and when I think about it, it depresses me. -.-
Or that the show just isn’t that great. I watched up until season five. I gave it a chance. I haven’t watched one since.
STEEEEEVE. I miss you