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Occultus_Nocturne

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July 5th, 2007 2:57 PM

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Captain America 1941-2007

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Thursday, July 5th 2007 and seven is truly a sad day, because today is the day that Captain America will be buried in the (marvel comics version of) Arlington National Cemetary. This has touched me greatly, because I like many of you out there are comic book fans. For me, it's a generational thing. My grandmother read them, my mother and father did, and so I have all my life. Whether you are a fan of Captain America or not, it's pretty clear to everyone who knows of him, that he is a figurehead synonymous with freedom, with America itself. You can ask anyone from around the world who Captain America is and they'd know regardless of reader status. Comic books have always been a way for everyone around the world to escape the drudgery of real life. They are fantastical worlds of great imagination with characters that personify the best and worst in all of us. They are people we wish we could be. As stated above, I have been a comic book fan all my life. I can tell you that over the years the political climates of the world have been injected time and time again into the storylines, but things regardless of the utter despair they sometimes went through, always came out on top. It made you smile, made you feel good knowing that even if in real life things don't look so pretty, somewhere they still can. This time in my opinion they went to far. They get these new writers, who are talented and I commend them for that, but they want to do something new, inject an edginess of sorts and in doing so largely sacrifice tradition. Seems as time goes on, they cater more to the movie generation, the teaming masses who crave conflict and violence. They forget about me and millions of others who lived to see what sort of trouble these heros would face, and watch them fight to win the day. They forget about the people who since the early sixties have spent thier hard earned money for them. We are all aware of the dramatic political climates of the times, so it's natural to see a story arc emulate this, and it is natural to have a shocking climax to prove a point. But they shot and killed Captain America, in essence shooting and killing America itself. It's a sad thing to be troubled by everything that surrounds you on a day to day basis, only to open up these doors I have so many times before as a kid, these doors to awesome new worlds only to see that art truly does imitate life. So all I have to say is I hope the money they garner from these movies and the mindless people who give it to them is worth it. I read these comics now and the art as well as the writing only vaguely represent the comics and characters I remember. Only the characters themselves remain, written around a plot smilar to Oz, or Saving Private Ryan, or the Sapranos. As they say there's a place and time for everything. I don't thnk it was the right time to kill America, to show us what we know already. So here's to the 66 years and over 200 million issues of Captain America that meant something to me, and I'm sure thousands of others like me. May he rest in peace.

-Darryl

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