A little help.

Marvel comics tried its hand at a comic to help people who might be thinking about Suicide. Unfortunately that comic consisted of one page setting up that the protagonist has it rough (His Dads dead and he’s failing in school) and then eight pages of Captain America beating up some dude’s. Now I’m not knocking the fact that Marvel have tried to handle a sensitive subject. I’m knocking the fact that the execution is just the worst.
Marvel has on its staff an abundance of talented writers. When one of their fictional characters dies they can write moving speeches that muster real emotions out of the reader. So was it really a wise choice to let a psychologist with limited comic book experience write this? Admittedly he might understand the mindset of a person in such a dark place, but if that’s true he certainly didn’t express it in the comic. The fact that this man is not a writer might have been the main reason the thing felt less like a help tool and more like a man living his fantasy of writing a Captain America comic.
I need to state that I’m all for a comic company trying to help people with such a constant and tragic problem and they have circulated the suicide hotline number on the final page which is great. It’s just a shame they couldn’t have made something less contrived to put that information out there.