So by now, pretty much everyone has heard about Marvel Comics' killing off of Captain America in "Captain America" #25. It's been in every newspaper, magazine, TV news show, and pretty much everywhere else. They did the same worldwide coverage thing for Superman, but you think they would have learned their lesson then.
See, Superman came back after five years or so, and I'm sure Cap will do the same thing, so I don't know why the uproar. We should be familiar with these gimmicks by now. They'll clone him or bring him out of an alternate universe or something. Coming up with an excuse for why a character's alive again has never been a challenge. What may be more of a challenge is the current Marvel staff's insistence that Cap is dead. Marvel's Editor-in-Chief Joe Quesada has said that he is indeed dead, and the way that Ed Brubaker wrote that last issue indeed makes the death seem final, but those guys won't be at Marvel forever. Someone new will come along and bring him back, and that'll be that.
I would do it. Steve Rogers was a cool character, and while it will be interesting to see what they do in a Marvel Universe without him, I just can't see them letting a classic and historical character like that sit in a grave for too long. And if they do, then kudos to them for having the balls, but I just don't see it happening. Pretty much every major comic book character has died and has come back in one form or another (DC even recently brought back Jason Todd, the Robin from the 80s that the fans voted to kill off) so I'm betting that we haven't seen the last of Captain America.
In the meantime, I'll totally fill in for him if they'll have me.
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