Captain America killed by sniper

[crt360]

Report: Captain America Dies on the Page

NEW YORK  Captain America has undertaken his last mission  at least for now.

The venerable superhero is killed in the issue of his namesake comic that hit stands Wednesday, the New York Daily News reported. On the new edition's pages, a sniper shoots down the shield-wielding hero as he leaves a courthouse.

It ends a long run for the stars-and-stripes-wearing character, created in 1941. Over the years, some 210 million copies of Captain America comic books, published by New York-based Marvel Entertainment Inc., have been sold in 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.

Still, the character's death came as a blow to co-creator Joe Simon.

"We really need him now," said Simon, 93, who worked with artist Jack Kirby to devise Captain America as a foe for Adolf Hitler.

The superhero was spawned when a scrawny arts student named Steve Rogers, ineligible for the army because of his poor health but eager to serve his country, agreed to a "Super Soldier Serum" injection. The substance made him a paragon of physical perfection, armed only with his shield, his strength, his smarts and a command of martial arts.

In the comic-book universe, death is not always final. But even if Captain America turns out to have met his end in print, he may not disappear entirely: Marvel is developing a Captain America movie.

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http://www.statesman.com/news/content/shared-gen/ap/Other_Entertainment/Captain_America.html

[Manedwolf]

Figures. Is the artist or decision-maker for this issue a leftist, I wonder?

[Cosmoline]

The comic books have become a favorite playground of the far left.  Killing Capt. America is par for the course.  

Ex Brubaker was the writer on the latest series, but there's no way he'd make this level of decision.  Someone at Marvel must have had something to prove.  And so they do:

The superhero's death in Captain America No. 25 is the latest development in Marvel Comics' long-running "Civil War" story line, in which the American government is cracking down on superheroes, requiring them to register or be declared traitors. Captain America had resisted the government and was killed on his way to trial.

[Silver Bullet]

Was an assault weapon used ?  I'm surprised the Bradys aren't all over this.

 

[wingnutx]

He's better off this way

[Headless Thompson Gunner]

Nevermind...

[Fjolnirsson]

Wingnutz,
Thanks for posting that. I was actually considering picking up some of the Civil War stuff. Now, I won't, because if that's how it's gonna be, I'd rather be flossing with barbed wire.

[Strings]

Ummmm... did I mis-read that?

>in which the American government is cracking down on superheroes, requiring them to register or be declared traitors.<

Couldn't we draw a line to gun owners there?

[Ned Hamford]

In my criminal law class the majority actually said it would be better to die than to live with having killed someone to defend yourself.  Different day, same class, that if you see someone being raped you should call the police rather than shout 'Hey, stop that'... and also that you shouldn't be expected to call the police at all cause hey, why should you get involved?

The further we slink to the socialist ideal the less crazy Ayn Rand seems. The idea that someone would publicly proclaim that they would do nothing to stop a violent rape and still take part in polite society seems absurd to me.  Common decency may have died, but at least it is remembered by some.  I'm glad this forum exists.

[Perd Hapley]

Ned, Ned, you're talking about future lawyers, there, not normal people.  How did you manage to get into law school with your soul intact, though?  Shouldn't they have removed that by now?   

[Ned Hamford]

Bit by bit they chip. I was promised, via email, reimbursement for a school trip.  Over a grand of expenses.  On return from that trip I've been informed they no longer plan to reimburse me.  :Chip:

They keep me so busy I've no time for regular contact with the outside world.  Mayhaps I'll forget about reality in another year or two.  THEN I'll be a lawyer. 

First on the Agenda, drafting up some laws to keep those gun owning yahoos in line.  THEY'RE DANGEROUS!  Why, if they saw a rape or murder taking place, they might just well take things into their own hands and try and stop it!   

[Cosmoline]

Odd, I actually started to appreciate the RKBA because of Kirkpatrick's Criminal Law class.  Getting people to think about such horrible situations is often a good way to open minds. 

[Ned Hamford]

Odd, I actually started to appreciate the RKBA because of Kirkpatrick's Criminal Law class.  Getting people to think about such horrible situations is often a good way to open minds. 

RKBA?  Might be because its 3am but it doesnt ring any bells.  As for the second sentence, isn't it in extremes that true character is best revealed?  In terror is virtue.

:Searches Ebay for some rose tinted glasses:

[HankB]

In my criminal law class the majority actually said it would be better to die than to live with having killed someone to defend yourself. 

They must have an extremely low sense of self-worth, to judge that their own life is worth less than that of a criminal attacking them.

Hmmm . . . if they put such a low value on their own life, how much value should we put on their mere opinions?

[Manedwolf]

He's better off this way

I think I'm going to be sick.

That comic excerpt at that link just expressed, in a nutshell, what is so terminally ILL about this country.

American Idol is more important than a REAL American Idol, in the minds of the giggling blank-eyed serfs.


Read through that comic, everyone, and see what we face. If there's anything left to save.

[Boomhauer]

American Idol is more important than a REAL American Idol, in the minds of the giggling blank-eyed serfs.

Bread and circus, bread and circus

[Cosmoline]

RKBA=right to keep and bear arms.  All I can tell you is that the number of gun owners among the 1L's increased many fold because of criminal law.  By the start of the second year even a number of hardcore liberals had firearms.  Those were back in the days when I was still an anti, but I came around pretty quickly. 

Odd, I actually started to appreciate the RKBA because of Kirkpatrick's Criminal Law class.  Getting people to think about such horrible situations is often a good way to open minds. 

RKBA?  Might be because its 3am but it doesnt ring any bells.  As for the second sentence, isn't it in extremes that true character is best revealed?  In terror is virtue.

:Searches Ebay for some rose tinted glasses:

[Manedwolf]

Oh, and this is how much of a slime runs the company now. They wanted to go HIP AND MORE EXTREME, looks like.

In an interview with Reuters, Marvel publisher Dan Buckley basically said it was Captain America's secret identity, not Captain America, who was the goner.

"This is the end of Steve Rogers, the meat-and-potatoes guy from 1941," Buckley told the wire service. "But Captain America is a costume, and there are other people who could take it over."

Rogers' demise comes amid declining book sales, unlike, you know, all those other times when characters were killed off at the peak of their popularity.

[Perd Hapley]

RKBA=right to keep and bear arms.  All I can tell you is that the number of gun owners among the 1L's increased many fold because of criminal law.  By the start of the second year even a number of hardcore liberals had firearms.  Those were back in the days when I was still an anti, but I came around pretty quickly.

Could you explain a bit further?  That sounds very interesting.  What is it that converts the antis? 

[Dannyboy]

What is it that converts the antis? 

Reality?

[Perd Hapley]

I guess so, Danny, I just didn't know reality was offered in a legal education.  Who'd a thunk it? 

[Antibubba]

What is it that converts the antis? 

Here's my guess: Summer internship.

Even law students can be starry-eyed idealists.  On TV the public defender helps the wrongly accused, battles for the little guy, and turns around the young man "who made a few wrong turns".  Well, there is nothing a beleaguered county Assistant DA likes more than bright eager young people who want to work for nothing gain valuable experience as interns.  Invariably, they get introduced to scores of defendants every day, and realize:

HOLY SH*T!!!  These people really are scumbags!!!  Defend them??  I volunteer to throw the switch myself!! 

My guess is this hits the ladies even harder, because they're being hit on by the rapists, hit on by the vagrants who are puking on them, and generally pawed at.

Mind you, IANAL, so this is just a guess.   

[Ned Hamford]

What is it that converts the antis? 

Here's my guess: Summer internship.

Even law students can be starry-eyed idealists.  On TV the public defender helps the wrongly accused, battles for the little guy, and turns around the young man "who made a few wrong turns".  Well, there is nothing a beleaguered county Assistant DA likes more than bright eager young people who want to work for nothing gain valuable experience as interns.  Invariably, they get introduced to scores of defendants every day, and realize:

HOLY SH*T!!!  These people really are scumbags!!!  Defend them??  I volunteer to throw the switch myself!! 

My guess is this hits the ladies even harder, because they're being hit on by the rapists, hit on by the vagrants who are puking on them, and generally pawed at.

Mind you, IANAL, so this is just a guess.   

Back before I could legally drink I was doing an internship with the Westchester DA's office, county just north of NYC.  I was there for the entire trial of a child murderer rapist.  Every time I was in the courtroom he would keep turning around and looking at me.  I figured I was the youngest bit of man meat he has seen in a long time that wasn't trying to shank him.  I do hope someone has shanked him, creepy bastard.

[Perd Hapley]

I do hope someone has shanked him, creepy bastard.

I don't care who y'are.  That's funny, right there. 

[AJ Dual]

Whenever a comic book superhero dies, a nerd (finally) loses his virginity...