Captain America is still dead, and this proves it!

I was going to write something witty and urbane about the following link (this site won’t let me embed it as does YouTube, so all I have is a link), but I’m pretty upset about it all. The story is about how a Dr. in Florida, who was at a costume party (dressed as Captain America) apparently sexually assaulted a woman in a bathroom.

Here’s the link.



Makes me want to go back and read The Other.

Cap, we hardly knew ye!

They keep telling us that Captain America is dead, but there are those among us who refuse to believe that, and choose to cling to a higher ideal that the principles and precepts that were embodied in the living legend will never die.

This is true, especially for the folks who live here.

Bravo gents, it is always tough to lose a hero. Especially one as dynamic as Cap.

Captain America is Still Dead!

This information just in, Captain America, who was shot to death by a sniper in Captain America #25 (and was revealed to be “Not dead yet” In The Initiative #1, has been revealed to be, well, still dead (in New Avengers #28). Apparently rumors of his life can be chalked up to misinformation from the New Director of SHIELD, Tony (Iron Man) Stark.

According to the fan rumor-mill (who, quite frankly don’t believe anyone), many are already discussing the possible replacements for Cap. These people include Bucky (“Winter Soldier”) Barnes (who is fully expected to decline the honor); Frank (“Punisher”) Castle (who won’t decline), and Sam (“Falcon”) Wilson who is already being sized up to take over for Castle after Castle comes to the realization that he doesn’t get to torture and kill thugs while wearing Cap’s red, White, and Blue.

Needless to say, the very concept of a “Sanctioned” African-American Captain America is sending the fan community into a tizzy.

Running as a dark horse candidate for the Star Spangled Union Suit is none other than Peter (“Spider-Man”) Parker, who is being touted by some as The Captain America of the 1960s counterculture generation. Parker, who has switched from his own red and blue union suit to a sleeker all black model with white highlights, while considered to be admittedly a “left field choice” is well-known in the superhero community to be the second biggest Boy Scout (right after Cap himself) and thus lends some credence to his consideration.

More on this story as it develops.

I’m not dead yet!

That’s right kids, Captain America isn’t quite dead yet, and no, he’s not being a baby about it either. Seriously. Yeah, Yeah, I know that we reported just the other day that Cap bit the bullet (or rather that the bullet bit him), but that was when we were reading a CNN.com report about his demise. Now, we’ve just finished reading Civil War: The Initiative, wherein Ms. Marvel tells Spider-Woman that Cap is alive and in a hospital on The Raft, where he is hanging on for his life.

You can read all about it here.

On another front, we now have Iron Man building a “New” new team of Avengers, and I can’t help but to be struck by the different way that he and Cap went about building their respective teams. Cap chose heroes of moral fiber who (apparently) worked well together under a difficult situation, Stark built a team on more of a George Steinbrenner/NY Yankees approach (Who’s available?/Who can I afford?). Cap wanted a team of stalwart men and woman with whom he could defend liberty, Stark wanted to build the best team that money could buy.

Interesting dichotomy actually. I’d like to see how this all plays out over the coming months. Hopefully it won’t be overly extended just to milk every dollar and angle out of it all, but who’s to know?

Well, that's about it for now, more as it happens.