Comments on: Captain America, RIP

By: Daniel McCarthy

Daniel McCarthy — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 01:34:57 +0000

That reminds me of this.

By: Tim

Tim — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 01:32:55 +0000

Is this the new cap? See image here

By: Tim

Tim — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 08:49:39 +0000

So the recently departed Cap wasn’t Steve Rogers? Strewth!

By: Daniel McCarthy

Daniel McCarthy — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 05:04:19 +0000

Putting someone new behind the mask was all the rage back in the ’80s. They replaced Iron Man for a couple of years, and there was a new Captain America for a while, too — the government fired Steve Rogers (the original Cap) because he didn’t pay back taxes on his earnings while he was frozen in a block of ice for a decade or two after the Second World War. The Red Skull couldn’t defeat Cap, but the IRS was a whole ‘nother matter. They replaced him with a neocon, too, from what I recall…

By: Tim

Tim — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 05:12:20 +0000

I think Cap was killed off during Marvel’s superhuman “civil war” , a civil war triggered by a federal Superhero Registration Act. Cap supported the resistance faction in the superhuman community to the SRA and Iron Man, now a federal agency chief, supported the pro-faction. Wikipedia has some of the details here. Cap seems to go through a makeover every few years. WW2 hero, anticommie, civil rights campaigner, you name it, he’s done it. I suspect the latest assassination is the prequel to a new incarnation of a younger replacement Captain America. Even biochemically enhanced WW2 experiments that get frozen in ice for a generation get old after a while. And they had substitutes play Iron Man for a while too. I suspect the new cap will be female.