If this movie doesn't have you by the balls yet, you're not paying attention.

I really can't wait to see this one.

See, that just doesn't work.

Pics look fantastic! I just can't wait for this movie.

I have been wracking my meagre brains (what else am I going to do - work?) and this is the best I can come up with. I don't know too many metalheads, though, so it's hard to know when this question might be asked.

Thanks for the tip, just pillow talk. I see where you're going, giving the word some new and flexible meaning, like 'shiny' in that Firefly malarkey, maybe. I'll give it a go, but if anyone looks at me funny I'm blaming you.

Fair enough....I'm sure you won't get too many funny looks. I'm quite sure.

As mah dear old daddy used to say: "Always remember, young Frank, it's better to be too Venomy than too silver!"

Why ganymede, did a dog take a crap on a transformer now?

I'm surprised it's still up. Then again, SM3 is only 3 months away.

BTW - Can someone find the article where THC (or was it KD again?)spilled the beans on the Uncle Ben thing? I wanna see Frijole eat his shorts.

Ok, ok, having a little too much fun. Personally, I would be really curious to hear someone at Marvel give an honest explanation for this. It seems... I don't know, a little weird. I always thought of Captain America as a bit of a joke, I liked the way some writers handled him, like in MARVELS, but most of the time I thought: Here's a symbol of America as a big blue-clad clown running through the streets of New York beating up drug-dealers, and oh yeah, he's a COMIC BOOK ARTIST in his secret identity. Seriously. I know we're not supposed to think "but in real life--" But, in real life, someone would just shoot him. He's not invulnerable, he doesn't have a spidey sense, he can't outrun a bullet. And where the shit was he on 9/11? And did he go to Iraq? Maybe the editors killed him to express some clandestine, disgraceful anti-American sentiment, and right now they're chuckling to themselves and reading Marx and trying to figure out some way to help Al Qaeda, but I think it's much more likely that as editors they probably found it more and more difficult to sell a character that seems less and less plausible. I don't think Marvel is too un-American for Captain America, I think maybe Captain America is too American for America. Right now, anyway. Does that make sense?

S-I-C-K!!!!

The real difficulty must lie with the writers, because the world, and America AREN'T as small or as simple as they once were, as concepts that can be so easily distilled as "red and blue ink on paper". Much of what America stood against in WW2 can now be found within itself, America has become so complicated that it is more than one thing at the same time now. I believe that everything that America stood for, everything that made Captain America more than just ink on paper is still here, but I also believe that there's something else at work, something that corrupts the idea of a Captain America at it's core, and renderd the icon inert at best, ridiculous at worst. I'm not saying the writers at Marvel should have killed him off, I'm just finding it pretty easy to understand why they chose that option. Maybe it was the wrong one, or maybe it was overdue. Who knows.

I could live my whole life without a comic book company trying to overexplain why some comic book published in the 40s has some narrative co-existence with a comic book published 40 years later.

with jihadists dancing around his body, burned and dragged through the streets of Baghdad, cuz that's where he would have been, right, as he was a soldier and America is always right, and he would have been 100 percent behind the war ion Iraq...blah blah blah. I never should have gone there.

But hey, how about that Venom?!

It was an issue of Amazing Spider-man (Vol 2 #36 "Black Issue"). Captain America, Thing, Wolverine, Spider-man, etc were on hand helping the firefighters save lives. Even Doctor Doom and Magneto stood in the crowd and looked on with tears of sorrow and rage at what the terrorists did.

Many comic book fans hated the issue, but I thought it was beautifully done and completely respectful of all the innocent lives that suffered and were lost because of some political/religious zealots' hate.

I have not read a Captain America comic book since 1976. I have never met him, and should not make any assumptions about the quality of his character. I also should be speaking ill of the dead, or soon to be dead. I should thank him for his service to our country.

Cap, can you forgive me?

A fellow citizen, Bronx Cheer