Dear Sally Floyd...

I hope you're happy now.

Maybe if they'd had a video about dodging bullets on YouTube, this never would have happened.

Yours,

Comics

Cap25_02

While I was pondering the stupidity of Civil War: Frontline #11, I kept asking myself if Captain America was supposed to stand for the ideals of the country and not its lowest common denominator. 

That's not true, actually.  I wasn't asking myself.  I was shouting at Sally Floyd, and by proxy, at Paul Jenkins.

I may also have said something about Steve Rogers being the Captain America the Marvel U needs, not the one it deserves, but I'm wrong about that now, too.  In his present state, Steve Rogers is very clearly the Cap that the Marvel U had coming to it.

I'm pretty sure we'll learn that this has been the big plan all along, that this was the problematic event that Joss Whedon flew in on his gleaming white pegasus to resolve.  And from an editorial perspective, I have to tell you that it works.  From a business perspective, it works even better.  But as a reader, if this doesn't satisfy the bloodlust in you, then I can't say what will, except possibly a Sobek ongoing by Ennis and Robertson.

I am hoping this is the nadir.  Let's start to crawl our way back up toward the light soon, guys.