http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/breaking_news/16849577.htm
Looks like it’s taps for Cap…at least temporarily. This IS Marvel we’re talking about, after all…
It just made the Yahoo homepage, so I doubt the “secret” will be much of one anymore.
At least he’s getting his own stamp this year.
Given the fact that he was in jail and about to be tried for his part in the Civil War, it’s probably a scheme to get him free and change his identity yet again. Or if it’s not now, it will be eventually, when some writer decides he wants to resurrect him.
Is any one still “reeling” from Superman getting killed off fifteen years ago?
He’ll be back. Until he returns, I’ll keep putting his stamp on the little mail I still send out (after the stamp is released, of course. Right now I’m working through the DC stamps. My truck registration got sent out with a Plastic Man stamp on it.)
I wear my commemorative black armband that was enclosed in the polybag on a daily basis.
I’m still working through the sheet of Judy Garlands a friend gave me last year. By the time I get to the DC stamps the postage rates will have gone up.
I’m not the type to say stuff like this, but Marvel’s treatment of the good Captain has been downright… unamerican.
I mean, the guy punched Hitler in the face, and then you lecture him on not having a MySpace page?
I have my own political views, and they are different than those of the current writers of Captain America and the Avengers, but I wouldn’t want Cap spouting those views either. So I gotta say I am fairly sick of various writers using the character as a sock puppet for their pet political philosophies. It ain’t new, either…it started in the late 70s.
I agree. Keep real world politics out of my fantasy worlds. They can put in all the fantasy politics they want and that’ll be fine by me.
For months Quesada and Millar and the whole lot of them have been telling us that Civil War wasn’t supposed to be an analogue to anything going on today, that we’re reading our own politics in it, that it’s about the Marvel Universe and nothing in ours…Quesada seemed to get real defensive about that a couple of times in his Newsarama Q&As. First thing I see in CNN.com’s article, via Newsarama?
Aigh.
I think you can have Cap stand for a more-or-less politically neutral “American dream”. Mom, apple pies, baseball, democracy, that sort of thing.
This is what I want.
Here’s what they’re selling me.
I think we can have stuff like the former without getting into “But about the *Black *man, Mr. Green Lantern” territory.
Eh, I like this version of Civil War much better. It’s got some naughty words, though.
Well, I stopped reading Marvel on a regular basis a couple of decades ago.
This soap-opera/civil war cr%p is why. :rolleyes:
Who cares about Civil War? The issue was good. I’m happy that this wasn’t in the main Civil War series and was handled by a good writer. Captain America the title has been strong ever since Brubaker took over and I’ll continue to follow it.
I don’t think for a second that he’s actually dead though. 
I think someone should organize a pool for when (not if) he’s resurected.
Brian
My money is on the “faked death so he could re-discover America (again (again))” plot twist. I’ve never been a fan of Captain America but his fans definitely have something to grumble about with his recent portrayals.
Put me down for July 2008 as the official resurrection, but he’ll be wandering the Marvel Universe in another identity well before that. Probably starting in the next month or so with the idea that we’ll all be “shocked” when the character is revealed to be Cap. The new Ronin is probably going to be a red herring, though. He’ll be set up so that we’re supposed to think that he’s Cap, but will turn out to be someone else.
Well, considering the whole series, I think I got the best ending I could expect…the quote-unquote “bad guys” won, and I’m supposed to feel bad about it, but I’m secretly doing the Snoopy dance.
“Trading Freedom for Security”…yeah, that’s awful. The People wanted security over the Freedom for untrained, unsupervised, unaccountable superbeings to run around and blow the hell out of each other at will. Often in populated areas. (I kinda gave up after they compared the Pro-Reg Daily Bugle to Fox News. Yeah, being against the idea of letting vigilantes run free in the streets. Really a classically right-wing position, there. Maybe the difference is that most of them don’t use eeeevil firearms. :rolleyes: )
I got interviewed by the local news about this and it just aired.
I was in the comic shop today and the owner came up to me and said, Hey [Cisco], I got a news guy coming here in about an hour to do a piece on the death of Cap and I want him to get a young good-looking guy and not one of the many weirdos wandering around here - will you do it?
So I went and did some errands and came back in about an hour and they interviewed me. It was really neat and spontaneous - the guy asked a lot more questions than I expected and I had to keep winging the answers as I’m not even a Captain America fan; I was in there to get the latest issue of Planet Hulk :D.