and I know Cap's uniform is iconic, but what's the point of a dirt nap if there isn't a costume redesign?
Glen Weldon, writing for the Monkey See blog over at the NPR website scores multiple times by
1. Covering the return of Captain America,
2. ironically,
3. noting that Cap #600 is available in stores now (quite a few media types are missing/forgetting/didn’t know that),
4. inventing the term “spandexhumation” to describe the phenomenon of routine return of dead heroes back to ongoing series, and
5. also giving us a “Deathspan” Index from Current Champ Barry Allen (and I’d say his record is safe because if anyone else gets close DC can just off him again) down to the single year we were without Superman. (It only seems longer because of what they subjected us to in the interim.)
Glen’s is the best take on CapBack [or is it ReCap?] that I’ve seen so far. Go, read:
“See how far down he is on the list? Relatively speaking, Cap’s two-year wormfood sabbatical just isn’t that big a deal. I don’t care what the CNN ticker says.”
(aside: Just about anything would be better than the 40s outfit — though the chain mail half-tee-shirt [or would that be scale mail?] would actually be a cool hold-over if it weren’t a half-tee-shirt. Judge Dredd has a better outfit, for crying out loud, and that’s one of the most miserable pieces of kit I think any hero has been burdened with — and also: that bullet wound to the stomach? Ya might not have been dead at all if you bothered with proper tactical gear. If I were to come back from the dead under similar circumstances, I’m thinking full-torso-and-crotch protection might be pretty high up on my shopping list)
image © Marvel, 2007, from the last big Cap event they were shilling.
