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Its breaking on Fox right now.
1 posted on 03/07/2007 5:00:20 AM PST by jmc1969
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They probably made the sniper look like President Bush.


2 posted on 03/07/2007 5:00:57 AM PST by jmc1969
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In some ways I'm sure he's kind of relieved. 66 years is a long time to spend as an 0-3. I mean, promotions may be slow in the superhero line of work, but he should have at least made Lieutenant Colonel by now.


3 posted on 03/07/2007 5:04:02 AM PST by Steel Wolf (If every Republican is a RINO, then no Republican is a RINO.)
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Who killed this character?


4 posted on 03/07/2007 5:06:21 AM PST by kinoxi
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His death is sure to ignite controversy in the comic book world - still reeling from Superman's death in 1993 and resurrection the following year.

Reeling? That's a bit much.

5 posted on 03/07/2007 5:06:46 AM PST by new cruelty
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His death is sure to ignite controversy in the comic book world - still reeling from Superman's death in 1993 and resurrection the following year - and even political pundits, who may see Captain America's demise as an allegory for the United States.

Or a platform for some whiny lefties.

Or a cheap commercial stunt.

7 posted on 03/07/2007 5:06:57 AM PST by atomicpossum (Replies must follow approved guidelines or you will be kill-filed without appeal.)
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The shooter is believed to be Muhammed Al-Bahgdadi Al-Akbar. The FBI has already ruled that terrorism is not a motive.


8 posted on 03/07/2007 5:08:40 AM PST by neodad (USS Vincennes (CG-49) Freedom's Fortress)
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The Marvel Entertainment superhero, created in 1941 as a patriotic adversary for the Nazis, is killed off in Captain America #25."

What'd he do, call john edwards a fag?

9 posted on 03/07/2007 5:09:31 AM PST by gate2wire
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Any news on Santa Claus?


10 posted on 03/07/2007 5:10:07 AM PST by Wolfie
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Well, one thing about the Marvel Universe: just because you become dead, that doesn't always mean that you stay dead. We'll see what happens in a few months.
14 posted on 03/07/2007 5:11:59 AM PST by NurdlyPeon (Wearing My 'Jammies Proudly)
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Someone thought that Dick Chaney was Capitan America.
15 posted on 03/07/2007 5:11:59 AM PST by WakeUpAndVote (Got Towel?)
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HAH! Killing Captain America would be like killing Chuck Norris........


19 posted on 03/07/2007 5:17:23 AM PST by Sarajevo (If you make a man a fire, he will be warm for a day, but if you set that man afire, he will be warm)
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This is captain America calling
This is captain America calling
Help me now I’m calling you
Catch me now I’m falling
I’m in your hands, it’s up to you
Catch me now, I’m falling
I stood by you through all of your depressions
And I lifted you when you were down
Now it’s your chance to do the same for me
I call you up, and your secretary tells me that you’ve gone out of town
This is captain America calling
This is captain America calling

The Kinks


22 posted on 03/07/2007 5:19:03 AM PST by Vaquero ("An armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
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Hasn't this character actual been anti-American for some time?


23 posted on 03/07/2007 5:19:17 AM PST by Minn
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Robin...., This.... is.... quite... an interesting.... development. I must... use my superior Bat intelligence to.... solve this.... perplexing riddle...

Riddle? Holy Conundrum, Batman! THAT'S IT!!!

26 posted on 03/07/2007 5:19:53 AM PST by Hatteras
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Captain America #25,

Okay, the comic's been printed for like 100 years and it's up to issue 25? I guess they want to start yet another new run, with another issue #1, just so that they make another new collector's item.

They just "re-invented" or "re-imaged" Cap, so they aren't getting rid of him.

Long time readers might remember that remember that Cap was frozen in ice for 20 years and brought back in the 60s. But that would make him really old, even with the Super Soldier Serum. So in the recent Reboot of the whole system, he was found by Nick Fury 50 year later. Bucky was still alive (although really old) and married to Cap's old sweetheart. Why Bucky stopped superheroing is anyone's guess.

Now if marvel wants to go with continuity, there will be another Capt America because there has always been, even during the time he was frozen. Two other heroes stepped up to become Captain America because the country needed there to be a symbol. And because it allowed marvel to explain why the CA of the 50s was so frickin' racist (and they killed that one off).

Okay, enough ranting. I have to get to class.

34 posted on 03/07/2007 5:31:01 AM PST by Tanniker Smith (Math teachers know ALL the angles.)
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Why ruin the fantasy?

Stupid, stupid move.


35 posted on 03/07/2007 5:32:30 AM PST by toddlintown (Six bullets and Lennon goes down. Yet not one hit Yoko. Discuss.)
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Something tells me that the FLAG serum (which turned Steve Rogers into Cap in the first place) will heal him, albeit slowly.


39 posted on 03/07/2007 5:37:36 AM PST by relictele
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His death is sure to ignite controversy in the comic book world - still reeling from Superman's death in 1993 and resurrection the following year

There's something disquieting about that statement.
40 posted on 03/07/2007 5:38:05 AM PST by reagan_fanatic (Have patience with me Jesus - I'm trying)
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Brian Kilmead was talking about this on Fox and friends. He was surprised that in a time of war they would kill off an American Icon that represents American might. Said it was agenda driven and symbolizes to the writer of the comic, the demise of America. He described the writer as a 40 year old which I then deduced that he looks like the typical metrosexual commie...Black spectacles, messy hair..you know the type.


41 posted on 03/07/2007 5:38:26 AM PST by slowhand520
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killed off in Captain America #25...

Sixty-five years and only 25 issues? Sounds more like a Captain France work ethic!

(Yes, yes, I know they renumber...)

45 posted on 03/07/2007 5:49:24 AM PST by Dont Mention the War (Giuliani '08: Why not p. o. BOTH sides?)
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