Marvel kills Captain America!

[Hawkeye]

Sorry to spoil it for anyone who hadn't finished the comic yet, but he gets shot on the courthouse steps by a snyper!

Marvel says the comic story line was intentionally written as an allegory to current real-life issues like the Patriot Act, the War on Terror and the September 11 attacks.

I guess they'll just continue it with another character taking his place? I'm kind of suprised he didn't go to Iraq and fight the insurgents, he fought the Nazis in WWII.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/book...rss_topstories

 

[denimdestroyedmylife]

i have issues with captain america on the cover

 

[Hawkeye]

Is it the blood splatter?

I don't get why the cuff is only on one hand.

 

[denimdestroyedmylife]

i remember the tv show well
the movie, too

i liked him in marvel zombies--------i guess his murder won't affect this gig

 

[Bona Drag]

Why does Marvel hate America?

 

[Connemara]

Yet another sign of the impending apocalypse.

 

[Dakota rube]

Originally Posted by Connemara

Yet another sign of the impending apocalypse.
Hey kid, that's my line!

Get yourself something different.

 

[acidboy]

... well there is always Captain Britain.

 

[Connemara]

Originally Posted by acidicboy

... well there is always Captain Britain.

 

[Nick M]

There's an old adage in the comic business, regarding the deaths of characters: "No one in comics stays dead, except Bucky, Jason Todd and Uncle Ben."

(Bucky being Captain America's sidekick in WW2, Jason Todd being the second Robin, and Uncle Ben being Spider-Man's uncle.)

In 2005/6, they all came back from the dead, in one way or another.

So, in conclusion, there's no way Cap is dead. He'd have to be completely disintegrated. And even then...

 

[life_interrupts]

Originally Posted by Nick M

There's an old adage in the comic business, regarding the deaths of characters: "No one in comics stays dead, except Bucky, Jason Todd and Uncle Ben."

One problem: Bucky's not dead. He was captured by the Soviets, turned into a black-ops agent, aka the Shadow Soldier, was intricately involved in the death of Wolverine's Japanese wife, and was recently running around trying to kill Logan again (See Wolverine 38-42; Wolverine: Origins 1-6).

I believe that Cap's dead. His relavance in the Marvel Universe was waning -- he was an anachronism. As a symbol of American can-do and the fight for just causes, he was the last of a breed. Nationalism in comics has been dead for a while. The allegorical resonance of killing off a WWII hero in our current political situation is astounding. Marvel doesn't hate America, it just recognizes that this is a much different America than the one Cap knew. How his death impacts the rest of the Universe will be interesting.

 

[eg1]

Hey, he lasted a lot longer than Johnny Canuck ...

 

[acidboy]

Antman & Wasp could be suspects. Its awful how Cap always steals the limelight from b-list superheroes under him.

 

[Nick M]

Originally Posted by life_interrupts

One problem: Bucky's not dead. He was captured by the Soviets, turned into a black-ops agent, aka the Shadow Soldier, was intricately involved in the death of Wolverine's Japanese wife, and was recently running around trying to kill Logan again (See Wolverine 38-42; Wolverine: Origins 1-6).
This is exactly the point that I am making - the character was killed off decades ago, but because the editorial pool of 2005 wanted to use him, they decided that the explosion that killed him in the 1940s, did, in fact, not kill him. And so all of a sudden he's back in the game, and they can write a spiffy new backstory for him.

And it's Winter Soldier.

Even IF the plan is to kill Cap for good - and it isn't, because there's a Captain America movie slated for release in 2009, for which this provides some great free publicity - the next editorial team who wants to write Captain America stories will just bring him back again.

Originally Posted by life_interrupts

The allegorical resonance of killing off a WWII hero in our current political situation is astounding
AstoundingLY GOOD FOR BOOK SALES!

 

[Nick M]

I should clarify that I think it'll probably be a good storyline. But the comic book industry just thrives on this kind of thing. Remember when they killed Superman?