If you have not read CAPTAIN AMERICA #25 from Marvel Comics yet, I urge you to do so, however, if you are not willing to spend $3.99 for the issue, then I'll kill you with a spoiler right now.
In Captain America #25, as is being reported on all major news outlets...Steve Rogers is shot... and speculatively killed. Not only that, but the actual murder was NOT done by the initial sniper known as Crossbones, but by Cap's female companion and lover, Sharon Carter. Now here's where it gets interesting.
In MIGHTY AVENGERS #1, Carol Danvers, aka Ms. Marvel, tells Jessica Drew aka Spider-Woman that Cap isn't dead, and that he's being kept under wraps, being a Super Soldier means he isn't prone to the same types of injuries or physically debilitating wounds that other may be, however this still doesn't "compute." Cap was on the table, and though the vitals were NOT shown, he most assuredly was "dead." So here's the most common fix to this problem...
Knowing that there would be snipers and possible assassins out to kill Captain America, Tony Stark pulls his final trick...an attempt to let Rogers figure out the American ideal, and creates a clone / cyborg version of Steve Rogers very similar to the clone / cyborg of Thor. This way he would appear to be dead, and Cap, now a registered superhuman would begin his quest to find out what the REAL american ideal is about today. A great year long story could begin out of this idea, and the man known as Steve Rogers could finally once again see what it takes to be Captain America.
Of course, I don't think the man is dead, but if he is, thanks to Ed Brubaker for writing this poignant piece of comic history. Hell, even if he stays dead for a year and comes back from cloned DNA or whatever, Brubaker did it diligently, and left us asking questions, the way a great writer does. Steve Epting once again allowed all the great art to flow from his pen and ink and create a truly remarkable issue. I just hope Marvel doesn't screw it up...
Leave it where it is for the moment, let it settle in...and only bring him back when the right writer can do it...and Ed has proven he can do that.
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