Comments on: Oh no! New Captain America already!

By: Cory

Cory — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 05:44:07 +0000

Comics are officially dead to me. I was a big collector in the 80’s and early 90’s, and gave it up because the industry was bloated and getting ridiculous. Now they kill my favorite character, Captain America, and replace him with the Punisher? Truly the powers that be are getting desperate for story lines. I call on all current comic book collectors to boycott Marvel comics until they resurrect the one true Captain America (in true comic fashion, since nobody ever dies in comics).

By: Arkvoodyle

Arkvoodyle — Mon, 14 May 2007 01:46:03 +0000

thats stupid looks like punisher thrown in with bullseye and a little deadpool
well like someone mentioned welcome to the new america! WAR!!!

By: jnr

jnr — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 15:39:05 +0000

…and in arc 2, castle’s born again.

praise the lord and pass the hand grenades.

By: Primate

Primate — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 15:28:40 +0000

Do you guys honestly not understand that Marvel is doing this on purpose, to comment on the Iraq War and the new U.S. imperialism? The point of Civil War is that the bad guys WON, just like in current U.S. politics. This is funnybooks, however, so expect Cap to make his triumphant, Christlike return, to Set All Right Again, in, oh, let’s call it two years.

By: ADD

ADD — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 15:11:35 +0000

So is this Young Gun Ariel Olivetti the father of the veteran artist who drew that great run on X-Man with writers Warren Ellis and Steven Grant back in the previous century?

By: Robolizard

Robolizard — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 12:37:50 +0000

I’m going to trust Brubaker with this one, but does he *have* to keep the skull?

By: Torsten Adair

Torsten Adair — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 05:31:21 +0000

Nice target on his forehead. Of course, any shot there wouldn’t be fatal…

“I’m Frank Castle. And I’m the NRA.”

By: Jay Franco from SFBC

Jay Franco from SFBC — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 04:43:59 +0000

I don’t know. I LOVE how they’ve brought the Punisher into the Civil War story (and the flashback in War Journal of Capt visiting a young Frank as Marine in training was awesome). But I’m not so sure I like this look/take for the Punisher. He was always more real (albeit dark and twisted) than other heroes. This space-age Capt A suit looks silly plus I hate when they give him these space age guns. He was a down to earth psycho who used real weapons and wit to battle men much more powerful. But I’m an old fan who bought every Punisher Armory copy that came out and followed him closely. We’ll see how it goes. Either way, Marvel has me buying more books than I was a few months back..

By: Cee Diddy

Cee Diddy — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 02:13:45 +0000

This should make for a really good read. I think at the end of Civil War #7 we all saw it coming. While some are less than pleased about this new Punisher title and preferred the Punisher from the MAX series, I love to see him interacting with the Marvel Universe.

By: phil

phil — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 01:36:06 +0000

Wow. Some people are really into musing about what this means for America, how it symbolizes today. Y’know how this REALLY is a reflection of America today. This will directly lead to an uptick in Punisher: War Journal sales and in a short while it will lead to the short-packed Frank Castle ‘Captain America’ variant figures (place your pre-orders on wizarduniverse.com today!!!).

By: M. Lusk

M. Lusk — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 00:22:06 +0000

crap crap crap crap crap.

America’s young people and their parents thank you, Joe Quesada.

Way to go. Just when we thought Marvel couldn’t sink any lower.

By: ~chris

~chris — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 00:09:08 +0000

“I’m not sure that was what was intended”

To sell comic books.

Pssssst, try Scott Pilgrim.

By: SporksOnTheInside

SporksOnTheInside — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 00:02:59 +0000

I would have preferred…
New Captain = War on Terror.

It’s funny… how little sense Frank as the Captain makes. And uh, nice cut and paste on the stock photo sunset there.

By: Julian Baughman

Julian Baughman — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 23:45:37 +0000

Steve Rodgers = World War II
Frank Castle = Vietnam
Go Frank!

By: The Dane

The Dane — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 23:30:25 +0000

New? Punisher and Wolverine – Marvel’s two heroic killers have been incredible popular essentially since inception. That’s American spirit for you. By giving Punisher the uniform of America, they are finally drawing the the spirit of America together with the spirit of the times. I’m not sure that was what was intended, but that’s what I see. Cap was always America’s quaint spirit idealized, while Punisher was American spirit realized.