If you're claiming that this strips the death of any emotional impact, then you have to say that about every single comics character who's been brought back from the dead, including Bucky. Resurrections are a part of comics. But for the readers, and the other characters, Steve's death still happened. The funeral still happened. The grief still happened. The pain still happened. My grandfather died last week, and even if he came back next week, it wouldn't erase the pain my family felt when we stood around his coffin.
But these are comics, and resurrections happen. The important thing is how they're handled. Originally, Ed Brubaker wanted to revive Cap almost immediately, within a few issues of the death. It was never meant to be permanent, and it was only when Marvel decided to make Steve's death into an Event with a capital E that Brubaker was forced to stretch his story out. In the meantime, we got Bucky dealing with his role in this new world. And I'm sure we'll still get that. Bucky isn't going to go back to wearing his WWII costume just because Steve is back. He's still going to be a hero, and he's still going to have to work to define himself, this time in a world where Steve is also there. I'm interested in that story, and I am certain that Brubaker will give us that story.
As for the fact that this is a miniseries -- that's how comics work. That's marketing. This is to catch new readers, and to make an Event out of Steve's life the same way his death was an Event (Fallen Son was a miniseries with Cap's main book in limbo, too). But as far as readers are concerned, this pretty much IS the main Cap book right now; there's no real difference, beyond a title, between this book and what would be happening in the actual Cap book. If you need a Bucky-as-Cap fix, go read New Avengers. But this is what's happening in "the Cap book" right now. And when this arc is over, the story will move back to the main Cap title, and we'll continue.
This is not shoddy storytelling. This is a resurrection that is reviving Cap not just for the Marvel U, but for readers across the country. It's reestablishing his origin and his past, and bringing him back into the light. It doesn't cancel out the past two years of comics, it doesn't cancel out the impact of his death, and it doesn't cancel out Bucky. It's just the next part of the story.
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But these are comics, and resurrections happen. The important thing is how they're handled. Originally, Ed Brubaker wanted to revive Cap almost immediately, within a few issues of the death. It was never meant to be permanent, and it was only when Marvel decided to make Steve's death into an Event with a capital E that Brubaker was forced to stretch his story out. In the meantime, we got Bucky dealing with his role in this new world. And I'm sure we'll still get that. Bucky isn't going to go back to wearing his WWII costume just because Steve is back. He's still going to be a hero, and he's still going to have to work to define himself, this time in a world where Steve is also there. I'm interested in that story, and I am certain that Brubaker will give us that story.
As for the fact that this is a miniseries -- that's how comics work. That's marketing. This is to catch new readers, and to make an Event out of Steve's life the same way his death was an Event (Fallen Son was a miniseries with Cap's main book in limbo, too). But as far as readers are concerned, this pretty much IS the main Cap book right now; there's no real difference, beyond a title, between this book and what would be happening in the actual Cap book. If you need a Bucky-as-Cap fix, go read New Avengers. But this is what's happening in "the Cap book" right now. And when this arc is over, the story will move back to the main Cap title, and we'll continue.
This is not shoddy storytelling. This is a resurrection that is reviving Cap not just for the Marvel U, but for readers across the country. It's reestablishing his origin and his past, and bringing him back into the light. It doesn't cancel out the past two years of comics, it doesn't cancel out the impact of his death, and it doesn't cancel out Bucky. It's just the next part of the story.