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Captain America Dead at 66
jas_public writes to mention ABC news is reporting that comic book super hero Captain America has apparently tackled his last mission. "It ends a long run for the stars-and-stripes-wearing character, created in 1941 to incarnate patriotic feeling during World War II. Over the years, an estimated 210 million copies of "Captain America" comic books, published by New York-based Marvel Entertainment Inc., have been sold in a total of 75 countries. But resurrections are not unknown in the world of comics, and Marvel Entertainment editor in chief Joe Quesada said a Captain America comeback wasn't impossible."
That's a fine way to start the day. Log on to the computer and find out Captain America is being killed off? Why don't you shoot my dog too?
Now only Jack Bauer Can save us against the evil that confronts the United States.
I just heard some sad news on cnn. Famed costume advernturer Captain America was found dead in his home at Timely Comics. Even if you are not a comic book fan you probably enjoyed his defeat of the nazis and his relentless persuit of freedom for all americans. Truly an American Icon. He will be missed.
With Captain America dead, the terrorists have won.
Take the cheese to sickbay, the doctor should see it as soon as possible - B'Elanna Torres, "Learning Curve"
Maybe they could do a back-story series, something along the lines of "The Adventures of 2nd Lieutenant America".
Our sinister plans are coming along just fine.
Without colorfully decked out heroes to inspire patriotic thoughts, America's youth will now turn to video games, skate boards, meaningless text chatter and enormous quantities of junk food to fill the empty hole in their lives.
Hmmm?
Already doing that, are they?
Dang.
Well, perhaps we need to demoralize the younger set. We have an offer to kill Barney the Purple Dinosaur. Kids still like him, right?
Wait, the KIDS want us to kill him?
That's it. I'm going back to Eddoria.
i am wondering if it is to much for me to ask for some semblance of reality injected into the comic industry. With the frequency that characters are killed, resurrected, killed again, cloned, or brought in from another universe, i highly doubt that Cap will make it more than 6 months before someone finds him under a rock somewhere, most likely with amnesia if i had to guess.
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Crisis on Infinite Earths
followed up by "Zero Hour" and "Infinite Crisis"
Give it a couple more decades and we will also probably get:
* Infinite Zero Hour * Zero Crisis Infinity * Earth Hour Zero * Crisis on Zero Earths
Its clear the old Captain America doesn't really symbolise what America stands for any more.
I'm picturing a Baron Harkonnen from the Lynch Dune movie, drenched in blood and oil. His superpower would be the ability to fly at 50,000 feet in an invisible plane, and destroy his enemies (along with anyone else who happened to get in the way), with radioactive munitions.
His weakness, which all superheroes have, would be his incredible stupidity.
I gots ta ding a ding dang my dang a long ling long
Or (follow me on this), the storm caused her to be thrown
back in time and across the galaxy (to say 1980 Earth) where she
has adventures on what appears to the the set for CHiPs.
This will be spun into a new series.
66 huh? So we are expected to believe that it's a coincidence that just 1 year after his pension benefits kick in he suddenly dies. I think not. Just a little too convenient...
If brevity is the soul of wit, then how does one explain Twitter?
Not to mention Infinite Hour: Earth, which I experienced recently in the form of a mandatory Lead Paint Safety class...
If a job's not worth doing, it's not worth doing right.
He's actually a fictional character - not a real guy.
:-(
Damn it! Really?
Next you're going to be telling me the Super soldier serum isn't real either
There are shills on slashdot. Apparently, I'm one of them.
I'm sure Marvel's already working on a "Return of Captain America" line involving four people all claiming to be Cap - a black man in adamantium body armor, a young boy, a cyborg, and an energy being.
gonzo67, I respect your service to our country. Thank you.
Better get out the word that someone might be killing costumed crimefighters.
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.