{"id":7820,"date":"2009-06-15T16:08:05","date_gmt":"2009-06-15T22:08:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/?p=7820"},"modified":"2009-06-15T16:08:05","modified_gmt":"2009-06-15T22:08:05","slug":"captain-america-returns-surprise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/2009\/06\/captain-america-returns-surprise\/","title":{"rendered":"Captain America Returns! Surprise?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The buzz Marvel has been sending out over the electric thought-spaces was unavoidable. Big news was coming for Captain America. For us, it was hard to get excited about it as that book is not on our pull list.  This is in spite of the wondrous things being said about <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ed_Brubaker\" class=\"external external_icon\">Ed Brubaker<\/a>&#8216;s turn at the helm. Two years since the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Captain_America#Death_and_aftermath\" class=\"external external_icon\">highly publicized<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Death_of_Captain_America\" class=\"external external_icon\">death <\/a>of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/?p=4802\">Captain America<\/a>, a new thing was about to happen.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Cap_america_v4.jpg\" class=\"external\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/Cap_america_v41-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Cap_america_v4\" title=\"Cap_america_v4\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-7824\" \/><\/a> Rising from the dead after being killed off over two years ago, Captain America is being resurrected by Marvel Comics.<\/p>\n<p>Though the circumstances of his return are being closely shielded, the star-spangled superhero returns July 1 in a five-comic-book series, &#8220;Captain America Reborn.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2009\/SHOWBIZ\/06\/15\/captain.america\/index.html\" class=\"external external_icon\">A big-budget movie in development by Marvel is also expected in 2011<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What they forgot to admit was the &#8220;new thing&#8221; was just an &#8220;old tactic.&#8221; We&#8217;ve decided to call every Marvel, and DC, flagship character that is gloriously &#8220;killed off&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jean_Grey#Jean_Grey.27s_future\" class=\"external external_icon\">Jean Grey<\/a>.  It&#8217;s easier on all of us that way.<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2009\/SHOWBIZ\/06\/15\/captain.america\/index.html\" class=\"external external_icon\">cnn<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/BryanMcB\/statuses\/2180879499\" class=\"external external_icon\">@bryanmcb<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The buzz Marvel has been sending out over the electric thought-spaces was unavoidable. Big news was coming for Captain America. For us, it was hard to get excited about it as that book is not on our pull list. This is in spite of the wondrous things being said about Ed Brubaker&#8216;s turn at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,32,56],"tags":[1297,1299,671,1229,1298],"class_list":["post-7820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comics","category-marketing","category-movies","tag-captain-america","tag-gotta-be-back-in-time-for-the-movie-release","tag-marvel","tag-not-dead-yet","tag-nothing-stays-dead-forever"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7820\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}