From the Boston Globe, on the recent demise of Marvel's Captain America:
When Superman died in 1993, it was at the hands of a massive, spiky supervillain named Doomsday, and only after a cataclysmic battle that demolished whole sections of Metropolis.
When Captain America met his apparent end this week, it was at the hands of a sniper who left the venerable superhero ingloriously sprawled on the steps of a courthouse.
Quite a difference -- and one that illustrates a downsizing of the idea of the superhero and a broader change in the world of comic books.
No, all it illustrates is how much Marvel sucks if their main hero can get taken down by one puny bullet! Recall the scene in Superman Returns where Clark takes the same bullet directly to the eyeball and doesn't even blink! Booooyaaaahhhh!!
(Sorry, had myself a fanboy moment there.)
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