Kamen America, Vol. 1: Stars and Strife

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Shedding her corporate and media overlords and imbued with the American spirit of self reliance and self determination, she is the patriotic paladin now known as KAMEN AMERICA! Carly and the Kamen Corps are in an awkward, precarious position as they must face the reality that one of their friends is the villainous Vermillion Masquerade!

Conflicted with the need to take down her friend-turned-foe, Kamen America is faced with the decisions she'll have to make to stop Vermillion's destructive rampage while salvaging what's left of their relationship!

Good Shepherd: Carly's priest, Father Blatty, is depicted as being compassionate and caring towards his congregation. Good thing, too, because enormous monsters start springing up across the country, and her agency isn't about to let this crisis go to waste. He's also revealed to be part of the Vatican's combat exorcist program, though he may have retired from that. Eight issues of Kamen America have been released as of September 2023, as well as a couple of crossover issues with some of Iconic Comics' other properties. Meet Charlotte "Carly" Vanders, a driven, patriotic, enthusiastic redhead who wants to be a fashion designer (shocking in this day and age, I know).

Engineered Heroics: Carly's arch nemesis Vermillion Masquerade turns out to be her best friend Vicki. Kamen America also markets itself heavily to Japanese audiences as well thanks to its familiar style, official Japanese translations, and its title of " Kamen America" that shows it draws from Sentai series as well. From there she becomes the superheroine known as Kamen America and vows to protect innocent people from all that might threaten them, including a series of villains who also gained powers from the space debris. Elemental Powers: Several of the Kamen Corps have them, including Misha (who has fire powers) and Kimiko (who has water ones).I'm not big on left politics being poorly added to stories but the opposite side doing the same is not at all what I want. For the next month and a half, Kickstarter is hosting the campaign for Kamen America Volume 4 AND the series' first Omnibus, which contains Volumes 1-4 in one hardcover book! Kamen America's innocent looking blond hair and blue eyes also invoke the Phenotype Stereotype of how Americans are percieved to look like in Japan, enriching the Animesque and Sentai influences the Comic incorporates.

It never devolves into full nudity, and while there is purpose behind this choice (pushing back against the mainstream mindset of drawing female characters as flat, unappealing, and downright masculine), this isn't one for the kiddies. Villain with Good Publicity: Cynthia presents herself as a righteous activist who is using her resources to protect people, and she's widely beloved for it, but she's actually a villainous monster.The heroes are generally able to stop and even redeem the villains without having to make moral compromises. The biggest insult is people on youtube and other sites having the gall to say this isn't political. Instead, she declares that the hero's identity is instead uniquely Carly's on account of all the good deeds and heroic work Carly had done while using that name.

Alpha Bitch: Carly originally saw Sylvia as this, since Sylvia was wealthy, popular, and somewhat insensitive towards Carly herself. In 2011, he gained his doctorate degree in Audiology and found a lucrative career dividing his time between teaching and seeing patients and doing freelance, professional art.While Wormwood isn't truly sadistic, she's certainly disrespectful and cruel to Carly and Vicki, belittling their interests and insisting they develop different ones.