Captain America Dead at 66 327
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."
Good morning to you too... (Score:5, Funny)
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Captain America dead at 66 (Score:5, Funny)
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Pre-Curser (Score:5, Funny)
BWAH-HAH-Hah-hah! (Score:3, Funny)
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.
confusing (Score:2, Funny)
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i am wondering if it is to much for me to ask for some semblance of reality injected into the comic industry.
I agree! Let's stick to realistic flying people with telepathic powers and super-human strength that the got from a gamma-radiated firefly!
Re:Dead at 66? (Score:5, Funny)
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
Re:Good morning to you too... (Score:5, Funny)
Done and done. Would you like to be billed now or later?
Time for a new Captain America? (Score:5, Funny)
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.
Re:He already died back in the late 1980s (Score:4, Funny)
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.
Re:Good morning to you too... (Score:2, Funny)
That's next week's issue
Corporate America Triumphs Again (Score:5, Funny)
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Damn it! Really?
Next you're going to be telling me the Super soldier serum isn't real either
The Return (Score:4, Funny)
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Call for Rorschach (Score:3, Funny)
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