{"id":1011,"date":"2007-03-07T17:00:29","date_gmt":"2007-03-07T22:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=1011"},"modified":"2007-03-07T17:00:30","modified_gmt":"2007-03-07T22:00:30","slug":"captain-america-killed-off-in-latest-comic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=1011","title":{"rendered":"Captain America Killed Off in Latest Comic"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wow<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I’d give everyone a spoiler warning, but<\/p>\n

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  1. Nobody reads Captain America anyway.<\/li>\n
  2. I’m not sure the contents of press releases can be considered “spoilers”, even when they do in fact spoil the surprise of the comic you’re not reading.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    I hadn’t heard about this. I’m going to go out on a limb and guess that he’s no more dead than Superman is, who was “killed” years ago and still manages to appear in more books than Harry Potter. I’ve never gone in for the lesser Marvel heroes. I’m a huge Spider-Man fan, and I can take light doses of X-Man, but… Sub-Mariner? Dr. Strange? Hulk? Fantastic Four? Some of them just don’t scratch my particular itch, and some of them are downright tedious<\/em>. Captain America was – pardon me, is<\/strong>, I refuse to talk about him in the past tense until he stops appearing in comic books – uninteresting to me. I assume a lot of other people feel the same way, which is why they’re killing him off. Nothing sells comic books more than killing off the main character. <\/p>\n

    It all sounds pretty political. He’s killed by a sniper on the steps of a courthouse in some conflict over the government requiring Superheroes to register their secret identities, which is part of the War on Terror. Geeze. What ever happened to punching Dr. Doom?<\/p>\n

    I feel like we should have some sort of memorial for the guy, but we’d better make it quick because I’m sure he’ll up up again any minute now. With that in mind, let’s look back on Captain America in Fury Unleashed!<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Wow. I’d give everyone a spoiler warning, but Nobody reads Captain America anyway. I’m not sure the contents of press releases can be considered “spoilers”, even when they do in fact spoil the surprise of the comic you’re not reading. I hadn’t heard about this. I’m going to go out on a limb and guess […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nerd-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}