Comments on: The Fifth Color – Next Issue… SOMEONE DIES!

By: KushCash

KushCash — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 20:38:28 +0000

Captain America is replaced with peanut butter Captain Crunch. Yum.

By: plok

plok — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 11:33:01 +0000

I’ve just been operating on the assumption they were going to kill Cap anyway. I mean, can you honestly picture this not coming up in the Joe Q./Bendis/Millar strategizing sessions?

By: Tuckenie (Chris Tucker)

Tuckenie (Chris Tucker) — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 05:52:10 +0000

I like what Ben is saying and hope it’s what Marvel does, but I fear that Cap is the hero who changes sides and THAT ends the war. If you want a beloved Marvel CHARACTER (not “hero”, “character” is in the Fallen Son solits) then you might want to look at an old lady who has a sniper looking through her window. Just saying… she’s now connected to both teams of Avengers and nothing get’s the attention of a bunch of heroes like the death of an innocent they SHOULD’VE prevented.

By: Ben

Ben — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 22:16:08 +0000

Oh, and here’s the kicker – Iron Man lets him live. They make a deal that he goes underground, and Iron Man agrees to tell everyone that he died.

By: Ben

Ben — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 22:14:04 +0000

I agree with everything, but I don’t think Captain America ‘dies’ for real. I think he will fake his death, and then go underground. This works for a bunch of reasons stated above, and provides new exciting story angles (inspiring other heroes, serving as an ideological rallying point, setting up the new importance of ‘secret identities’ of non-registered heroes).

I remember reading somewhere about Post-Crisis DC shifting the portrayal of Batman as sort of an ‘urban legend’ in the DC universe, and this kind of does the same thing, if Capt. is underground, he’s more of an ideal than a man (direct lift from “Batman Begins”).
It is sort of the reverse of the ‘Magneto’ following that Grant Morrison established in his New X-Men run.

By: Spencer Carnage

Spencer Carnage — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 21:44:53 +0000

He doesn’t really die! He just goes to an alternate dimension and gets a boob job!

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 21:38:39 +0000

Referring to what other characters would do…My thing is this: Cap’s legacy could be even more potent then.

Not to be too “real” about it, but did people just give up on the Civil Rights Movement after MLK was killed? That’s the kind of impact I could see with the death of Steve Rogers.

By: Gladiator X

Gladiator X — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 21:25:40 +0000

If they kill off Cap I will be done with new comics.
I’ll still buy back-issues and reprint collections but without Cap,there will be no Marvel Universe to me.
Not tryin’ to flame or throw an ultimatum.Just sayin’,is all.

By: pulse768

pulse768 — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 20:46:04 +0000

If Cap dies, then I have to ask this question: Who will be the hero that Spider-Man, Luke Cage and so many other Marvels look to? Will they just give up and quit being a superhero, or descend into a directional darkness? Captian America is going to die, I’m almost certain (and afraid) of it.

By: KushCash

KushCash — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 20:33:32 +0000

Dear Marvel, if you kill off Captain America – I will buy more comics every month. Thank you.

By: Hassanchop

Hassanchop — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 19:44:50 +0000

I have thought that Cap dies for the last few months. It just seemed strange to me to reintroduce Bucky after some many years without some endgame.

I think that Bucky will replace Cap and we will go back to Cap being a man out of time and believing in the principles that other do not believe int.

By: Nick Evans

Nick Evans — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 19:40:15 +0000

The American ideal killed by a pointless war? Marvel might just catch a popular mood with that.

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 18:53:45 +0000

I totally agree with this sentiment, and I’ve been thinking the same thing. Killing Cap would a) stun people and b) really change the landscape of the MU. It would give Bendis’ New Avengers a certain poignancy, and it add a sense of tragedy to the creation of the Mighty Avengers. It could be done to great affect in Cap’s own book, where Bucky could take over the title role without too much flack — still making sense. It would completely shape the future of Iron Man’s book.

But they really have to do it right. If Cap eventually comes back, it’s gotta be a 5-year plan, where a mysterious guy starts showing up in a small smattering of books here and there, until finally it blows up into a big event. Done subtly, with impact for all the characters and their own books, it could be very cool.

By: Palladin

Palladin — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 18:51:09 +0000

Or another reason that Cap dies is a way of settling the dispute over the liscense of the character that I believe may still be an issue. If Marvel lost that court battle Captain America would have to be retconed out of existience. This way they just agree to stop using the character and any likeness of him. Issue solved and Marvel changes forever.

Just thinking….