Really?! Please show me one fan that thought "it was all over", just one, go ahead, show me. They're just making this $hit up aren't they?

Did you find glass in your cheerios this morning?

go out for a beer.

Ed Brubaker’s current run on Captain America is, by most all accounts, the best Cap has seen in decades. He has managed to break a cardinal rule of comics by “bringing back Bucky,” and most of the fans, including myself, have been enthralled by the storyline. Your article, however, was nothing to write home about. From the opening sentence, the author comes off as an uninvolved 3rd party who neither knows nor cares about what is going on in the world of comics. If by “fans everywhere” you mean, “that one guy in Indiana who never read a comic before” perhaps it would make sense that said fans “thought it was all over.” Should we have known better? Is it surprising that “Marvel has worked out a new plot yet again?” Of course we knew better. Of course Marvel worked out a plot. That’s what they do. Or, more precisely, it’s what Ed Brubaker does. And does well. How can you attempt to write an article about Captain America’s recent past without mentioning Ed Brubaker’s name?

The statement that Bucky “hasn’t aged a day” is simply wrong. I understand the need for brevity and the desire to be concise in these types of articles, but hyperbole and exaggeration are tools better left to grade-schoolers. In what circles do you travel in which “the idea of a gun-toting superhero has become an extremely controversial topic?” Superheroes have been carrying guns since, basically, their inception. Even Captain America has used firearms in the past. This is nothing new. And Brubaker himself has stated that he doesn’t plan or desire for Bucky’s decision to carry a gun to become a major plot point in his stories. It’s disappointing to read such a review as such a well-constructed story in the oft-maligned field of comic books. This reads like marketing dreck aimed at children barely old enough to read and, really, simply serves to perpetuate the idea that comics stories are juvenile, corporate driven, and lack artistic merit.