I disagree at every level with you on this. It's not the idea of Steve coming back itself that causes me to dislike this comic, because yes, resurrections happen all the time and are a part of comics, but this one is still not good storytelling. Compare Reborn to Hal Jordan's return as the Green Lantern - he'd been dead for a good while and then came back in a strong powerful story. And Bucky's resurrection was entirely different. He was BELIEVED dead by everyone but it turned out he was alive all along. What Reborn has done has completely nullified Steve's death - the funeral, the burial, everything because he was never dead to begin with and this is different from Bucky's story because with Steve there originally was a body. Now it's just sort of vanished into some sort of plot wormhole because - and I cannot stress this enough - Steve was apparently shot with a TIME BULLET. Which is shown to be even more of a farce because the idea directly contradicts Steve's spiritual appearance in Thor. If he was never really dead, how could his ghost appear to Thor?
I'd like to know where you got your information on Brubaker though, just as an aside. Because I have in my hands a transcript of an interview where he says it's not his intention on ever bringing Steve back - some other writer will have to do the job. So I'm not so sure about the idea of Marvel forcing him to drag the death out - in fact, this story stinks of just the opposite: pressure to bring him back.
And yeah, Fallen Son was a mini-series, but Steve's death was part of the core comic. His return, and the subsequent issue of "Who will be Cap now?" is being planned strictly for a mini-series when something supposedly as big as this and critical to the main plot of the core series should be part of the main comic. But that's evidently just another issue of companies wanting more money so they can charge more for a mini-series.
I disagree that this is reintroducing Cap to new readers and going over his past. Comics like The Marvels Project are doing just that, or Theatre of War. Captain America: Reborn is a sore excuse for a story and not anywhere near the sort of engaging plot I've come to expect from Brubaker.
And I have to say, I feel you're completely missing the point of my dislike of the comic. This is not an issue of, "Well Steve should stay dead because Bucky's so much more interesting", not at all.
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I'd like to know where you got your information on Brubaker though, just as an aside. Because I have in my hands a transcript of an interview where he says it's not his intention on ever bringing Steve back - some other writer will have to do the job. So I'm not so sure about the idea of Marvel forcing him to drag the death out - in fact, this story stinks of just the opposite: pressure to bring him back.
And yeah, Fallen Son was a mini-series, but Steve's death was part of the core comic. His return, and the subsequent issue of "Who will be Cap now?" is being planned strictly for a mini-series when something supposedly as big as this and critical to the main plot of the core series should be part of the main comic. But that's evidently just another issue of companies wanting more money so they can charge more for a mini-series.
I disagree that this is reintroducing Cap to new readers and going over his past. Comics like The Marvels Project are doing just that, or Theatre of War. Captain America: Reborn is a sore excuse for a story and not anywhere near the sort of engaging plot I've come to expect from Brubaker.
And I have to say, I feel you're completely missing the point of my dislike of the comic. This is not an issue of, "Well Steve should stay dead because Bucky's so much more interesting", not at all.