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Nerd Alert! March 14, 2007
Captain America's Been Torn Apart Now Marvel Comics killed off Captain America. Why? I don't know. Cap, who'd beaten hordes of Nazis, all manner of supervillains and aliens, outfoxed an omnipotent Red Skull possessing the Cosmic Cube, and punched Hitler right in his little mustache, was killed by a sniper. He went down like a bitch. Why? I don't know. But I know at least one person who is genuinely pissed off by this. I don't care so much. I don't care because while Cap's "dead", he's not really. Steve Rogers, the man behind the mask, is currently dead, but he'll be back. Superman came back when he died just the way he was before. Fucking Aunt May was killed off and came back. Comics do this shit all the time. Then creative teams shift as they inevitably do, someone decides to undo what was done before, and everything goes back to the way it was. Steve Rogers will eventually come back as Captain America. It'll be no surprise when Captain America returns, whenever that is. Like the lyrics of Guns N'Roses' "Paradise City" (which I cribbed the title of this rant from) say, "I've seen it all a million times." In the meantime, it's hard to get upset about the demise of a character from a continuity I tangentally follow in a series of comics I don't even read. This is especially true when Cap died in the same week Battlestar Galactica killed off Starbuck. Starbuck! Losing Kara Thrace, one of Galactica's primary characters and one of the most unique characters on any television series, was a hell of a lot more impactful to me than Cap biting a bullet. It's a lot harder to justifiably bring a dead character back to life on a program the caliber of Galactica than it is in comic books. I don't miss Captain America like I do Starbuck on Galactica. And Kara Thrace might not come back at all; logically, she shouldn't. The same can't be said for Marvel inevitably resurrecting Steve Rogers. |
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