1.) I hated Hal Jordan's resurrection story, so we'll have to chalk that up to a matter of taste. I'd much rather be reintroduced to the streamlined history of a character than have some half-assed moral thrust onto me about how fear is EVIL and blind courage is the most noble thing ever.
2.) J. Michael Straczynski has never really had any intention of working with the rest of Marvel continuity, if his hissy fit over Spider-Man: One More Day and his decision to leave Thor because Marvel wanted to use him in a crossover are any indication. It doesn't surprise me in the least that he would use a ghostly Steve without regard to what anyone else was going to do with the character. However, having read that issue, I don't think it's ever completely clear that Steve is a ghost -- and if Steve is bouncing around through time, stuck in limbo, how do we know it wasn't just an astral projection of that?
3.) I got this information from Brubaker himself, at a panel at HeroesCon in Charlotte last June. I'm pretty sure he's also said the same thing in interviews online, which I'm sure you can google. Brubaker pitched his story (which he'd been planning for quite awhile, but which was sped up by Civil War), and Jeph Loeb said, "Wait, you're killing off Cap and you're not making a big deal about it? That's crazy!" Marvel agreed, Fallen Son was planned (by Loeb), and Brubaker was asked to leave Cap dead for awhile. Brubaker then saw the opportunity to have Bucky in the cowl, so he agreed, and stretched out his story. If he said he wasn't bringing Cap back before, it was because writers are told to pretend upcoming events aren't happening until they're officially announced. That happens all the time. They don't want to spoil future plots. But now that Cap is being resurrected, Brubaker is free to tell the whole story, and I highly doubt he would have concocted a story from scratch about Jeph Loeb having ideas at a Marvel summit.
3.) Since the core comic isn't happening right now, what's really the difference? This is replacing the comic for a few months. It's still the same stories, just with a different logo on the cover. Yes, it's an attempt to sell more comics -- but Marvel is a business, and that's what they do. If you have a problem with the financial side of it, and that's completely valid, blame Marvel -- not Brubaker. The story is the story, however it's marketed, and I'm sure Brubaker would be just as content to tell this story in the main book.
4.) Cap is going to have a movie in a few years. They're doing this strategically. And Brubaker has said that he enjoys doing this because it allows him to put his stamp on Steve's history. In the past, comics would retell a hero's origin almost every other year. This isn't new. The Marvels Project, while great, isn't going to bring new readers into Captain America because it isn't called Captain America. And the Theatre of War issues barely sell at all, and have been almost universally terrible, and rarely about Steve himself.
5.) I never said that was your reasoning. I was just saying that I don't see how this is different than Bucky's resurrection. If you really have a problem with sci-fi plot devices and reveals that characters were never dead even when we saw a body, comics may not be the medium for you.
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2.) J. Michael Straczynski has never really had any intention of working with the rest of Marvel continuity, if his hissy fit over Spider-Man: One More Day and his decision to leave Thor because Marvel wanted to use him in a crossover are any indication. It doesn't surprise me in the least that he would use a ghostly Steve without regard to what anyone else was going to do with the character. However, having read that issue, I don't think it's ever completely clear that Steve is a ghost -- and if Steve is bouncing around through time, stuck in limbo, how do we know it wasn't just an astral projection of that?
3.) I got this information from Brubaker himself, at a panel at HeroesCon in Charlotte last June. I'm pretty sure he's also said the same thing in interviews online, which I'm sure you can google. Brubaker pitched his story (which he'd been planning for quite awhile, but which was sped up by Civil War), and Jeph Loeb said, "Wait, you're killing off Cap and you're not making a big deal about it? That's crazy!" Marvel agreed, Fallen Son was planned (by Loeb), and Brubaker was asked to leave Cap dead for awhile. Brubaker then saw the opportunity to have Bucky in the cowl, so he agreed, and stretched out his story. If he said he wasn't bringing Cap back before, it was because writers are told to pretend upcoming events aren't happening until they're officially announced. That happens all the time. They don't want to spoil future plots. But now that Cap is being resurrected, Brubaker is free to tell the whole story, and I highly doubt he would have concocted a story from scratch about Jeph Loeb having ideas at a Marvel summit.
3.) Since the core comic isn't happening right now, what's really the difference? This is replacing the comic for a few months. It's still the same stories, just with a different logo on the cover. Yes, it's an attempt to sell more comics -- but Marvel is a business, and that's what they do. If you have a problem with the financial side of it, and that's completely valid, blame Marvel -- not Brubaker. The story is the story, however it's marketed, and I'm sure Brubaker would be just as content to tell this story in the main book.
4.) Cap is going to have a movie in a few years. They're doing this strategically. And Brubaker has said that he enjoys doing this because it allows him to put his stamp on Steve's history. In the past, comics would retell a hero's origin almost every other year. This isn't new. The Marvels Project, while great, isn't going to bring new readers into Captain America because it isn't called Captain America. And the Theatre of War issues barely sell at all, and have been almost universally terrible, and rarely about Steve himself.
5.) I never said that was your reasoning. I was just saying that I don't see how this is different than Bucky's resurrection. If you really have a problem with sci-fi plot devices and reveals that characters were never dead even when we saw a body, comics may not be the medium for you.