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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Felon" data-source="post: 3395430" data-attributes="member: 8158">I'm surprised there's all this emphasis on Steve Rogers being alive.How about Steve Rogers is dead, long live Captain America? The man dies, but the dream lives on? You know, Cap was born in the Great Depression, something some of our grandfathers can't even say. For a character that's supposed to quintessentially human, that's just getting harder to buy into. A new reader comes into comics and says something like "so, Captain America, he's like immortal or something?", to which the veteran has to explain, "nah, he's human, but he's been bobbing around in an iceberg for the last...(mentally calculates) fifty years now, I guess".Maybe it's just time for the mantle to pass on. Humans are mortal. They have to pass on their legacies for them to endure. Maybe instead of a walking piece of nostalgia from a war that's history to most of us, we now get a Cap that's actually a part of this century: a fireman who survived the World Trade Center attack, a soldier that served in Iraq, and so forth. (sure hope my mere mentioning of events that happened in the real-world doesn't constitute "political discussion" by some bizarre twist of logic...)</blockquote>