Captain America, Dead at 66

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Woah... kinda a logial progression following Civil War I guess... but there's no chance this'll last even a year.

Now, where are places to bet on how he comes back to life?

Incidentally, the Civil War collections appear to be coming out at the end of this month, I must make a note to pick them up.
 
Yeah, it wasn't terribly surprising that they killed him off (I figured it was going to happen in Civil War #7), but it's still a bit of a shock to actually see it happen.

And, yeah, I've no doubt he'll be back to life eventually. It's the comics world. No one stays dead, no matter how sacred the death is. Still not fun to see them killed.

The BIG question is: Who's going to be the new Captain America? One of the interviews on Newsarama is with the writer of the Fallen Son series. In it he says that Iron Man has the shield, and decides what happens next. Wonder if this means Roscoe's back to life.
 
Feh, he'll be back in a year.

Maybe Patriot will take over as Captain America for 12 months?
 
Zeta said:
Feh, he'll be back in a year.

Maybe Patriot will take over as Captain America for 12 months?
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If they're going with a black Captain America, my money's on Falcon.

Sexy Oak said:
The Punisher should do it.

That'd be crazy nuts. :D
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They seem to be hinting at that, but unless we're going to have two Captain Americas, I don't see Iron Man giving the shield to Frank.

I figure we'll either see Falcon, Sharon Carter, Punisher, Winter Soldier, or some new guy taking over the Cap mantle. Probably end up being some character invented in the new Amazing Fantasy series that they're trying to "make last." Who was introduced in #15?
 
I still can't believe they actually killed him off. Such a shame. It's like the jfk assassination comic style. Got to give credit to marvel to make people's heads turn.
 
If there's one thing they proved with that story, it's that Marvel has balls of adamantium. And the mainstream media attention is great (minus the idiotic thing that FoxNews did where they treated Cap's death like an ACTUAL PERSON dying).

Quesada on Cap's death. There's a new interview. Talks about where the idea came from, how long it's been in the works, and how Fallen Son came about.
 
"Breaking" news: Tonight's "The Word" on Colbert Report will be...Captain America. According to Newsarama.

This is just the tip of the iceberg as Captain America's death enters day TWO of national media coverage. Along with that we've got:

New York Times
NPR dedicated a three-minute segment to it
Cleveland Plain Dealer
The CONSERVATIVE VOICE (REALLY great article)
The Huffington Post compares it (fairly heavily) to the US soldiers in Iraq
Boston's "The Enterprise"
EOnline says he's "dead-ish"

My prediction? Cap comes back in 2009.
 
2009's a bit of a long time, don't you think? They're continuing the series and they're not likely to do that for TOO long without the actual titular character.

Hopefully he comes back from the dead in a better plotpoint than Captain Marvel got though.
 
I find the conservative voice article funny since Cap represents patriotic US Liberalism in comic book form.

2009's a bit of a long time, don't you think? They're continuing the series and they're not likely to do that for TOO long without the actual titular character.
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He's thinking this is a 2-year long publicity build up for the movie, with the movie release coinciding with his miraculous rebirth and crap.

I hope they find out Tony Stark is behind it and kill him, too. I'm getting really fucking sick and tired of him getting away with out and out supervillainy by hiding behind his money and reputation and the writers not realizing how incredibly fucking evil and egotistical they're writing him.
 
Sexy Oak said:
2009's a bit of a long time, don't you think? They're continuing the series and they're not likely to do that for TOO long without the actual titular character.

Hopefully he comes back from the dead in a better plotpoint than Captain Marvel got though.
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Captain America movie in 2009. Until then, they can have a rotating cast of fill-ins, hinting at him being alive. Or just spring it on everyone. I still say they should bring Roscoe back. He's due a resurrection.

Zeta said:
I hope they find out Tony Stark is behind it and kill him, too. I'm getting really fucking sick and tired of him getting away with out and out supervillainy by hiding behind his money and reputation and the writers not realizing how incredibly fucking evil and egotistical they're writing him.
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Red Skull was behind the killing. He's in league with Faustus, who hypnotized Sharon. Sin's Skull's daughter, and Crossbones is his man-slave (Crossbones used to be cool, but over the past decade, he's just been Red Skull's bitch).

As for how they've been writing Tony, I think we'll see a shift come World War Hulk. I get the feeling that they're actually heading somewhere with him. Presumably his death bed.

And I love that Mighty Avengers is starting off like a slightly better Force Works. Only Wonder Man survives, it's an underworld invasion, and the big reveal is Ultron instead of Century.
 
Yeah, I caught the same story as Aussie-boy.
 
Archaic said:
The Cap's not actually dead. Someone mentioned on another forum that there's a quote in another comic about him being alive, in a secure location, with doctors doing the best they can to try and save him.
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That was a mislead. The person who said it was trying to take the person they said it to off guard so as to capture them.
 
I read an interesting opinion article by the LA Times that analyzes what the death of Captain America means at this day and age. Although its sorta used as ammunition to attack present-day neoconservatism, it's a decent literary analysis of Captain America overall:
 
The way this is going they should kill Captain Britain too and have a pop at Tony Blair.
 
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