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Captain America big news

ByElayne Riggs

story-captain-america-8122576You’d think that, what with the Libby verdict and the ongoing Walter Reed scandal and the presidential campaign horse race in full swing a year and a half before the general elections, it wouldn’t be that slow a news day.

You’d be wrong.

Everybody who’s anybody in mainstream news out there in the Real World seems to have grabbed onto the "shocking event" that Marvel is planning to kill off Captain America.  Here’s the CNN take, complete with a tiny spoiler alert intro which appears about a half inch above the actual revelation.  There’s also a pretty thorough Q&A with Joe Quesada about comic character death.  Watch out, retailers — this could be the biggest thing to hit the "real" news world since… the death of Superman!

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8 Comments

  1. It is so nice to see that underground comics are still alive and well. This is fun stuff guys.But I was frustrated that the double page spread was not possible to see as a double page spread. Can that be fixed in the reader so that the pages line up correctly?

    1. Many thanks, Mark. And as to the postmodern undergrounder stuff overall, you ain't seen nothin' yet!That double-truck lapse has to do with my having constructed the original demo version with a curtain-raiser title page that didn't get reproduced with this presentation — its absence sorta throws things off-balance.Bound to be a way to work things out for the better, for Mark Walker's double-pager really wants seeing all at once — captures an essence of righteous mayhem.

    2. There is a button on the reader to view double page spreads. It's in the top left of the reader and has an image of 2 pages on it.

      1. Well – DUH! Actually – the problem is in viewing the pages that were drawn as a double page spread. In this case they fall on the wrong side and don't line up.

          1. Yeah – it would be nice if an easy answer could solve the problem. Hey Glen – can't you just change the page numbering for this chapter?

  3. And thank you, Elayne. The setting of that mood is largely the work of Irvin Cobb — the story's present digression into Al Capp Country notwithstanding — and Cobb deserves to be as well remembered as Wm. Faulkner and Mr. Clemens and/or Twain.Some other Cobb tales worth rediscovering are "The Belled Buzzard," a Southern Gothic takeoff on Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart," and "The Escape of Mr. Trimm," in which a crooked big shot finds himself at large in the wilderness during a flight from justice. These come from a smaller body of work that Cobb called his "grim pieces," as opposed to the bucolic humor of, say, his "Old Judge Priest" stories.

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