Everyone, I've had a long time to prepare myself- & meditate on this move- and though I still loathe it, I am calmed- & am trying to calm everyone else- who are as outraged as me & justly so- that this won't last. I say this with the experience of a longtime comic reader, who's seen every death & legacy character & gimmick there is. One way or another- a year, I'm thinking even less since the idea is so unpopular, & Remender's run isn't exactly setting the sales charts on fire- Steve will be Cap again. Sam will be Falcon again. And this- and all of Remender's lackluster run- will be a minor footnote in Cap's storied history, when compared to Brubaker's epic run. In the future people will still be talking about Bru's run- how visionary & groundbreaking it was, as they do now- & when Remender is mentioned, he'll just be that guy that followed Ed Brubaker. Though I have no personal spite for Remender, as a Cap fan I take solace in this. I hope Remender moves on & finds the series that is his niche- but it's not Cap. And I hope that in the future, that we can have another writer step in, that like Brubaker did, will take Cap back where he belongs, back to the top of the pile again. I really feel like these things will come to pass- & when this whole "Captain Falcon" idiocy is over, & Steve is back, & Remender's run is over- all of which are win-win scenarios for me- I will regularly pick up a Cap book again. But I won't support this move, or this run at all- & I suggest others who feel the same as I do the same. Companies like Marvel & DC only react & change things when you hit them where it hurts- their wallet.
Now the whole Thor scenario- that's something else entirely. It was something that literally made me physically ill. Something a comic book has rarely done- something that pissed me off so bad I wanted to vomit vitriolic fumes. Don't get me started on that- it was a move that pissed me off about a comic series in a way I haven't been in years. And I'm still not over it. The less said about that the better. But we, the fans, can change this nonsense- by not buying into it. Loyal readers are where it's at- casual readers & "new readers" come & go. When they become aware of this, & see a dip in sales from the alienation caused to loyal fans, that's when they know they have to change to get us back so they can have more of the almighty dollar to line their wallets.
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