what is it doing there?

[sergebroom]

For those of you who watch The Colbert Report, did you notice that Captain America's Shield is hanging to the wall behind Colbert's desk? At least, it was last time I looked.

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[tania-c.livejournal.com]

Colbert and Stewart are two reasons I keep considering getting cable. Dewey in Unshelved seems to be handling his grief in his own particularly Dewey way.

[serge-lj.livejournal.com]

Of course, death isn't always a permanent state of affairs in comics (*). They'll probably have someone (probably Bucky Barnes) take Cap's place until the peasants have enough and decide to storm Marvel's offices with pitchforks and torches. Personally there are too many gimmicks in comic-books these days when they should instead draw people in with good stories - which is what I was getting from Captain America.

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(*) When Grant Morrison was still writing X-men, a couple of years ago, he had Jean Grey die in Cyclops's arms again. It should have been laughable, but it worked because her last words were full of sadness, that all she had ever done for Cyclops was to die on him again and again.

[tania-c.livejournal.com]

Nothing is an impermanent as death in comics.

I'm hard pressed to think of a primary/secondary character who died that hasn't come back in one form or another. Then again, retcons certainly help keep the brain active and make one creatively problem solve. Yeah, that's riiiight.

urgh. I should get back to work. The back of my brain will be thinking on death in comics while I'm revamping a web page.