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  • Wandering Sensei: Moderator Man November 3, 2011 at 8:39pm
    I was actually shocked. I thought the original incident was a stupid move, but I had no idea it would be reversed so quickly.
  • Rich Lane November 3, 2011 at 9:31pm

    Really?  I was surprised it didn't get reversed in the seven issues of the series.  You simply do not resurrect a long standing death that is well received by the audience simply to kill the character again.  I bought that death as much as I bought Thor killing the Thing in series proper.

     

    I don't have a problem with that.  It's par for the course in comics.  What I hated was how mundane the whole thing is.  As Pat said, "L.M.D. ?  That's an an acronym for "Deus ex Machina" for Marvel."

    JeffCarter said:

    I was actually shocked. I thought the original incident was a stupid move, but I had no idea it would be reversed so quickly.
  • Jeff of Earth-J November 4, 2011 at 1:43pm

    Rich, I couldn't disagree more.

     

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    It's not that they brought him back, it';s that they were so up front about it. After a stint as Captain America, Brubaker returned "his" Bucky Barnes to his roots: the Winter Soldier. Given that it was inevitable that Steve Rogers be returned to his roots, I can't imagine it having been handled in a better way. (And yes, I was the one who fully accepted Bucky Barnes as Captain America in the first place.) I was just searching for my "Captain America" thread to post my thoughts on FI:CA #7.1 when I found this and thought I should respond.

  • Rich Lane November 4, 2011 at 4:56pm

    I'm not bitching about him becoming the Winter Soldier again.  I agree it's a natural end to the arc.  I'm bitching about them pretending we didn't see it coming a mile away and acting like we took his death at anywhere near face value, up to and including the interviews with the creators.

     

    As for the story itself, Didn't we see "LMD corpse fakes everyone who should know better out" back when they resurrected Nick Fury?  

    I expect better from Brubaker. 

  • Jeff of Earth-J November 5, 2011 at 8:49am

    Here's where  see the difference. It's not like Thor (say), whose return was dragged out for months waiting for the other shoe to drop; Marvel kept it "secret" only until the end of the mini-series, then came clean. the fact that Steve Rogers was kept in the dark is your "in" to the story; you should be able to read it from his POV I would think.

  • Wandering Sensei: Moderator Man November 5, 2011 at 11:58am
    I think Brubaker is working with what was handed to him by Fraction and the other forces at Marvel. That's only speculation, of course. But it does at least make some (comic book) sense in-story.
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