More long time fans take Marvel to task for the Captain America death.
Mike Antonucci blogs from the Mercury News
It’s amazing to read the range of commentary about the apparent (are we even sure of that?) death of the Steve Rogers / Captain America character. The chatter spans all the geeky comics stuff, is anybody in comics ever permanently dead?, to essays about the symbolism this pop culture happening has for the United States in 2007.
I’ve also read the badly out of sync dialogue from Marvel’s “Civil War: The Initiative.” Ms. Marvel says, “He’s tucked away safe ... They’re trying to save his life” and then adds a clear hint about why Rogers might have survived. It’s some kind of cheap tease delivered in a confusing way.
I don’t care about this stuff as a sales gimmick. Don’t care about any symbolism. Don’t even care about whether a good story may evolve from here.
My concern is the bad writing in the concluding issue of the “Civil War’’ mini-series that set up this development (see my previous post about that). My concern is the use of this kind of exploitative twist as a non-satisfying payoff for my emotional investment in the earlier “Civil War” issues. My concern is about Marvel not really providing ANY payoff.
More loose ends (and more uncertainty about whether any big moment is permanent) only detracts from trying to keep up with the convoluted comics world. Now my incentive is gone.
I shouldn’t have allowed Marvel to suck me in. I won’t let it happen again. I’ll take my dollars to other entertainment (including some new comics, but very little, if any, from Marvel). I’m sure I’ll end up hearing about the next stage of the Steve Rogers saga. But I won’t care, even though I’ve been a comics fan for almost five decades.