I'm not sure why they would do this. The creator seems pretty upset. He was a unifier when we needed one. Granted comics are not as mainstream as they used to be, but I still kind of feel that this was an inopportune time to have a sniper shoot CAPTAIN AMERICA repeatedly

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Perhaps they are preparing for the coming of Captain United Nations??

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I thought Captain America was pretty lame... of all the comic book heroes out there. Too bad his creator is upset though.

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He was kind of lame, but..... still..... at least he wasn't aqua man.
It is kind of along the lines of if they came out and said that GI Joe was sniped or something. Or if they came out and said something bad about hot dogs and baseball. Well, this probably doesn't make any sense. Oh well.

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Ayn Rand, Anthem.

Yeah, they could replace his red white and blue out fit with a brooks brothers suit lined with oil for food money, and replace his shield with a stack of resolutions and ineffective santions.

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Ayn Rand, Anthem.

I can see it :" Captain UN, they are attacking the city!!!"

"REally. Well, I'll sit hereand debate it with my sidekick for year, then fly in just after the badies left and say: "AH HA YOU SCUM< NEVER AGAIN!!!!"

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“The subject no longer has to be mentioned by name. Someone is sick. Someone else is feeling better now. A friend has just gone back into the hospital. Another has died. The unspoken name, of course, is AIDS.”
“From the point of view of the pharmaceutical industry, the AIDS problem has already been solved. After all, we already have a drug which can be sold at the incredible price of $8, 000 an annual dose, and which has the added virtue of not diminishing the market by actually curing anyone.”

Captain Britain was better then Captain America. And even then... he wasn't that great. I think people only tolerated having him in Excalibur because his girlfriend was a minx!

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Chances are good you're not sure why they did it because you aren't reading comics right now. They don't do this shit in a vaccuum, "Oh, let's snipe Capt. America for no good reason."



I haven't been keeping up with the Civil War storyline, but I'd be shocked if this didn't have something to do with it. The premise is that there are two factions (with poor SPiderman stuck in the middle) of super heroes divided over a new piece of legislation recently passed by the United States government requiring superhumans to register with the government and divulge their secret identities. Captain America and his half were for the law and registration, and Iron Man and his half were against it.

Like I said, I haven't kept up with it (hard to find American comics in Taipei) but I'm reasonably sure that his death has something to do with it.


But then I'm not exactly surprised to find incomplete and sensationalist reporting on a fringe topic from the American News Media. Yeah, Captain America's dead, never mind why. Thanks for the scoop, guys.

Granted, and I thought the same thing at first. Then they came out and said he was not coming back. I do read comics. Not nearly like I used to and I haven't bought one in over two years, but I'm familiar. When they do shit like this it is usually because of whoever is doing the writting and what he/she wants to do with it. Well, after that writer has killed off Cyclops, Mary Jane, the Human torch, or whoever a new writer takes over gets everything back on track and makes the past how ever many months all a dream, or vision, acid trip, etc.

I just get frustrated because at first it was the Superman movie where they changed it to "truth, justice, and all that stuff" instead of "t, j, and the american way." And now it is "A sniper has killed Captain America." A frig'in sniper? That is just weak.

On a side note, I saw an issue of that civil war series and flipped through it. It looks pretty decent. Might get me back into reading them.

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Ayn Rand, Anthem.

He could be back. They killed Superman. They killed Optimus Prime. Both came back.

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