Marvel Sucks

He fought and triumphed over Hitler, Tojo, international Communism and a host of super-villains, but he could not dodge a sniper’s bullet.

Comic book hero Captain America is dead.

After close to 60 years in print, Marvel Comics has killed off Steve Rogers, aka Captain America, one of its most famous and beloved superheroes amid an already controversial story line, “Civil War,” which is pitting the heroes of Marvel’s universe against one another.

In the comic series, Rogers was to stand trial for defying a superhero registration law passed after a hero’s tragic mistake causes a 9/11-like event.

Steve Rogers eventually surrenders to police. He is later mortally wounded as he climbs the courthouse steps

I realize that they can always bring him back to life. And Civil War is a maxi-series. But for Cap to die in such a prosaic manner after all he’s been through, is an insult. These comics publishers continue to do one stupid thing after another, dishonoring their traditions and characters all for cheap stunts that’ll get them press. If they actually produced comics worth a damn they wouldn’t need to do this kind of thing. 

Hey Hud,

Yeah, the whole Civil War as a story was horribly done. One mistake was hiring Mark Millar to write the main series.  The main problem was they had promised an equal representation to both sides of the issue, which was never done. So we get fascist Iron Man and violent reactionary Captain America.  The problem is they create the basic idea for the story, then force their characters into the story instead of writing a story out of the characters.

Posted by  on  03/07  at  12:51 PM

Aaaaannd with that I’ve bought my last Marvel comic. They killed Cap a long time ago when they started having him act like a concientious objector hippie, acting out the self-indulgences of the liberal writers at Marvel who wanted to be the “conscience of America”. They disrespected the character then and notice how they send him out with a sniper bullet now. Never mind the indignity, why miss an opportunity to ram the idea that “Guns Are Bad” down our throats again?

Posted by Paul T  on  03/07  at  01:01 PM

Mark Millar is an out and out leftist. His parents were real communists (not retorical) and he was brought up believing the Soviet Union was heroic. And on top of that, he’s British. Not even American.

It really appalls me how so many books today are written by out and out leftists, who don’t have any sense of fairness or reason. On top of that, many of them suck as writers.

But the real villains here are the editors who hired these clowns and let them run rampant. Their job is to safeguard the company’s characters, not allow them to be plundered and ruined by illiterate hacks.

Posted by  on  03/07  at  01:31 PM

And that Hud, is why Quesada needs to go…

Worst thing that’s happened to Marvel in a long time.

And yet most of the guys who STILL read Marvel nowadays are clueless and don’t recognize the current regime and its writers as hacks.

The last time I could read about any Marvel comic and not wretch was the late 1980s.

That company has been going downhill, especially quicker since the mid-1990s.

Posted by  on  03/07  at  01:35 PM

It’s odd that Millar actually wrote a decent Captain America in the Ultimates, depicting him as the patriotic man out of time from the 1940’s who was a soldier first and foremost.

To make this whole thing an even bigger travesty, rumor has it that the costume of Captain America will be taken up by The Punisher. I’m not joking.

Posted by Paul T  on  03/07  at  04:05 PM

I regretfully gave up on Spider-Man when the plotline headed in a direction I really didn’t like (Gwen left Peter to go to England) and on the Fantastic Four not long after Jack Kirby left Marvel.  Which probably tells you altogether too much about my age…

Posted by  on  03/07  at  05:52 PM

Well, I read Captain America #25, the Death of Captain America.  It was actually quite good.  Ed Brubacker wrote the story, and he is an exceptional writer. Amazingly, the death was a buildup to Brubacker’s run on the book from issue #1, it just got thrusted into Marvel’s Civil War by editorial mandate. 

Hud, actually Millar is Scottish, but close enough. He’s certaintly a leaner to the left. His Superman: Red Sun series depicted Superman growing up in Communist Russia (it was an Elseworld story).  True he has his biases, but he’s become such a terrible writer. I’ll read a biased book if it’s written well, when characters and motivations are compelling, but Civil War was just forcing real issues into characters that would never reaact that way. 

Paul T - yep a previous Cap writer was forcing his political opinions onto Cap as well, post 9/11. Alot of writers have been doing this in the past couple years. Brian Azzerello did it on Superman and Joe Kelly on JLA.  Like I said, I don’t mind the bias, but keep it out of characters who wouldn’t do or act in that fashion.  If they want to write that way, go write Green Arrow.

And Joe Q. most definitely needs to go.

Posted by  on  03/08  at  10:14 AM

My big problem with the bias is that it’s all one sided on the far left. And in addition to that, by people who don’t even understand the issues they are supposedly writing about.

Posted by  on  03/08  at  10:45 AM

Captain America, RIP
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-heilbrunn9mar09,0,1776570.story?coll=la-opinion-rightrail

Posted by  on  03/09  at  06:11 PM

Boy, that was one of the most offensively clueless articles I’ve ever read. Talk about bias.

Posted by James Hudnall  on  03/09  at  07:07 PM

Is there anything to say that hasn’t been said?  Could Marvel possibly go any lower?  Oh yeah, they might as well be doing some superhero porno comic . . .  That’s bound to get them even bigger press than the “death” of Captain America!

I said it before and I’ll say it again: Joe Quesada must be stopped!

This is what happens when comic-book superhero stories are managed strictly by fans, many of whom are cynical ex-high school geeks/bullies.  Today’s comics make better fanfiction than actual comics do.

Posted by John Cassidy  on  03/09  at  07:25 PM

This is why I don’t read Marvel comics, because of the stupid shit they pull. They killed Captain America, they have really shitty unappealing story lines, really crappy movies(that comes out way too soon) and on top of that, they sue their own fans for anything Marvel related, like the youtube video of the mugen characters fighting against each other pitting DC against Marvel characters. DC is the good guys when it comes to comics.

Posted by  on  06/08  at  04:11 PM

I dunno; DC’s recent comics are equally dubious, IMHO.  (The best exception, by far, is DC: THE NEW FRONTIER.) But DC certainly has more class, relatively speaking (thanks in part to Warner).  Marvel is just plain self-indulgent.  They’ve gone beyond low.

Posted by John Cassidy  on  06/08  at  05:46 PM
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