The last wall came down...

and I missed it. Just as well I suppose. The flurry of press reports today confirmed that as part of their incredibly inane but high selling cross universe crisis Civil War, Marvel comics has just killed Captain America.Now you might expect that I would use this space to go on a rant about said incredibly inane civil war, or how it's just more evidence of 40yearsagotoday's astute theory that by and large comics nowadays are essentially fanfic ("Let me tell you my Bullseye story! it's so wicked cool, and only 85% stolen from Miller's original ones!"), but I have to disappoint you. I'm instead going to complain about the collapse of one of the last, if not the last, moments of tangible continuity in comics. Go back and read that NYT story I linked to. 

Further down. 

A little further. Do you see it? I'll help. "More recently, Bucky, the Captain’s wartime partner — who was thought killed by an explosion as he tried to defuse a bomb — was revealed to be alive. Bucky was saved by Soviet forces, who put him on ice and thawed him for their own missions. Captain America broke the Soviet hold on Bucky, and the two had a brief reunion. Bucky, who has taken on the name the Winter Soldier, is now on a quest to redeem his actions."

They brought back Bucky. They f'k'n' brought back Bucky!?!? The one actual tangible touchstone death in the continuity, the one that wiser writers and editors had sashayed towards and then turned away from at the last minute on multiple occasions (I am particularly fond of how Peter David had the immortal leader of his greek god descended supporting cast organization look amazingly like a young Rick Jones - who as we all know was a dead ringer for Bucky Barnes - commented on how said immortal last wandered the earth in WWII and then had him die/vanish while escaping on a rocket in a scene drawn in lovingly rendered Kirby-vision without every stating that this was indeed Bucky) and they undid it?

The wind and the rain, why? WHY? So we could have Bucky and Jean Grey make out and produce offspring who will look nothing like Cable and marry Peter Parker's cloned daughter (or daughter's clone, or something...) when she returns from being vanished and never spoken of again? Gyyyyaaaaaaahhhhhhh!

OK, I'm better now. Well, no I'm not, but it's the best I can do. Time to go take two

Tom Strong and try to feel better in the morning.