Comments on: CNN BREAKING NEWS! NO CAP #26!

by: Luigi Fulk

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 21:02:05 +0000

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by: Bill Compton

Mon, 04 Jun 2007 22:41:50 +0000

Hi Jim. Photos i received. Thanks

by: Bill Compton

Mon, 04 Jun 2007 22:41:40 +0000

Hi Jim. Photos i received. Thanks

by: Bill Compton

Mon, 04 Jun 2007 22:41:30 +0000

Hi Jim. Photos i received. Thanks

by: michael

Fri, 09 Mar 2007 00:31:51 +0000

holey crap!!!! midtown comics was PACKED yesterday!!! all ages!! genders!!!! races!!!! I’ve never seen the likes!

i, of course, was not there for the book, but apparently many, many were.

by: Wraith

Thu, 08 Mar 2007 22:37:35 +0000

Cap also died 2 years ago in the last issue of CAPTAIN AMERICA AND THE FALCON. The issue was weiten by Priest. So my reaction to Cap’s death is “been there, done that”.

by: Rodrigo Baeza

Thu, 08 Mar 2007 12:38:57 +0000

Over at the kirby-l mailing list, someone’s who in touch with the Simon family said that when Joe Simon was approached for quotes about this, his first comments consisted of death jokes which were not what the reporters were looking for. So I wouldn’t worry about Simon taking this too seriously.

by: Chad

Thu, 08 Mar 2007 09:27:06 +0000

Marvel seems to be putting quite an investment into Cap’s death. It’ll be hard for them to resurect him without generating serious ill-will among both the fans and the casual readers.

Assuming whatever post-Cap book (replacement cap) fails, I give it about 2-3 years.

Let’s be honest. Cap’s not exactly a top-seller (not bad and it has been increasing with Brubaker), and isn’t as much of a comic book icon as say Superman, Batman, Spider-Man or even FF. I think the world can live without Cap on the stands.

by: Tag

Thu, 08 Mar 2007 05:07:08 +0000

What no one seems to remember is that Cap WAS killed, within the last five years I believe, in #50 of the post “Heroes Return”, pre-MK series, by a retirement community full of Project Paperclipped geriatric Nazis in Red Skull masks. They even had his funeral, written by Evan Dorkin & drawn by Kevin Maguire, where Falcon delivers his eulogy. I mist up a little from a single silent panel where Sam has to stop mid-sentence in order to not completely lose his shit; the look of pain practically bursting out of his face is a beautifully sad moment.

Then they relaunched the series and behaved as though that never happened. So color me unimpressed, with prejudice.

Maybe Joe Simon was on the verge of regaining the copyright and Marvel figured they’d better wipe their asses on the character, via CIVIL WAR and this, while they still could. (Before you tell me that’s unlikely, let’s consider the status of another major contested comics icon, the original Superboy.)

Prediction: Bucky/Winter Soldier is going to take up the mantle. Or Punisher, since he got all weird over Cap’s discarded mask at the end of CIVIL WAR (maybe he’ll put it on and dance in the mirror to “Goodbye Horses”). Steve Rogers will be reborn as the new host for the Phoenix, looking like his archangel persona from PARADISE X. Jack Kirby’s coffin rotates so much it’s fitted with magnets and generates power for Stan Lee’s condo. Mark my words.

by: Robolizard

Thu, 08 Mar 2007 01:49:30 +0000

Hmm… this all seems vaguely familiar… http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Death_of_Superman

Unless the series is going to be about Frank Castle…

by: Mark Engblom

Wed, 07 Mar 2007 23:40:10 +0000

Grab a board and ride the Photoshop Tsunami!

by: jimmy palmiotti

Wed, 07 Mar 2007 22:18:16 +0000

was in a theatre before a movie today and a bunch of guys were talking about captain america dying a few rows back…and one guy asked the other…where do we get comics from? and no one knew. it was a really sad exchange

had to clue them in, but really, event books should be in bookstores in another format or done as a magazine size to be at newstands the same day all this press goes out.

you think he is really dead? lol…

by: Matthew Craig

Wed, 07 Mar 2007 22:18:12 +0000

Is..is that ERNEST HEMMINGWAY?

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by: Sphinx Magoo

Wed, 07 Mar 2007 22:00:02 +0000

I betcha that sneaky Arnim Zola (the guy with the face in his chest) makes an offer to the government for amnesty to clone Steve Rogers’ body to create an army of super-soldiers.

by: Derek Rogers

Wed, 07 Mar 2007 21:40:50 +0000

whoever replaces Cap better have a thorough knowledge of pop culture as well as a Myspace page.

by: wizardmi

Wed, 07 Mar 2007 21:01:48 +0000

Great linkbait! I read this purely for the article title but it was good none the less.

by: Richard J. Marcej

Wed, 07 Mar 2007 20:54:59 +0000

hmmm…. al-Quesada…..

by: Neil Kleid

Wed, 07 Mar 2007 20:39:52 +0000

The real question is… who will replace Cap? I vote me. I already own a shield made of apple pie.

For patriotic purposes, of course.

What?

by: Bill Williams

Wed, 07 Mar 2007 20:25:26 +0000

How long will we have to wait for al-Qaeda to take the credit?

by: Shad

Wed, 07 Mar 2007 20:23:07 +0000

That Joe Simon quote got me all weepy. Thanks.