How did this one pass me by? Well at least this one is more of a teaser than the Bendis and Romita Jr adjectiveless Avengers. Who could this be? And doesn't this team's remit sound very similar to X-Force 'getting the badass shit done that the normal Avengers can't', I'm of course paraphrasing there. Can't quite work out who it is from the silouette, maybe Black Panther? My fiorst thought Spiderman 2099 but surely not?! This'll be kicking off in May with Brubaker writing and Deodato on art duties making it pretty hard to pass up. Damn you Marvel you're winning back my blackened heart.

Link: http://marvel.com/digitalcomics/titles/CAPTAIN_AMERICA_REBORN_%231_PREVIEW.2009.0

Marvel.com have a digital preview of Captain America: Reborn #1 which chronicles the return of Steve Rogers to the Marvel Universe. If you're interested in learning what it's going to be like before the 1 July release date either click on the image above or CLICK HERE.

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Today sees the unprecedented release of Captain America #600, two days before it's usual release day on Wednesday, why all the fuss? Because Captain America, Steve Rogers is returning from the grave. Joe Quesada; Marvel Editor-in-Cheif announced today through the Daily News "The original Captain America is finally coming back,". This isn't going to happen in Captain America #600 but just as I and so many others predicted in Ed Brubaker's new mini series Reborn.

As I said in my previous Reborn post I think Bucky Cap still needs a bit more time with the Captain America mantle but obviously Marvel feel differently. I can see where they're coming from with a movie on it's way and the media attention this sort of event will draw to the property but I can't help thinking it's too soon. Of course if the story is good and it feels right then I'll soon change my tune, heralding this as the greatest comic moment ever but if it all goes wrong I can still say I told you so. What can I say I like to hedge my bets. For the good of the character I hope Marvel know what they're doing and they're doing this for the right reasons in that it's what Ed Brubaker wants and planned rather than imposing it upon him earlier than he would've liked.

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If you've been reading Marvel comics for the last couple of years you'll know that Steve Rogers; Captain America, is dead. In fact even if you don't read comics at all it was pretty hard to miss the media storm that surrounded the death of this Amrerican fictional hero. Now it seems as though he may be coming back. Of course this is just rumour at the moment spurred on by the following teaser promo that has been running in a lot of the Marvel comics.

I was totally sucked in by the hype of the whole Death of Captain America story and although I'd never looked at a 'Cap' book before I started reading Ed Brubaker's run on the title. The death wasn't the only thing that pulled me in, Cap had played a vital role in the summer event Civil War that had preceeded this story and had become quite attached to Steve Rogers. Brubaker has managed to keep the Captain America book going very well without Steve in the suit, first with just the supporting characters of Cap's world like Falcon and Sharon Carter and now with the 'new cap' as played by the Winter Soldier AKA Cap's former sidekick Bucky Barnes. He's made Bucky into his own Captain America, a man that has been able to step out of the shadow of Steve Rogers and do his things his way whilst still staying true to the spirit of the icon.

Now it seems as though this may all be about to end with the possible return of Steve Rogers and I really don't know how I feel about it. First of all I need to say this is by far and away not a certain thing, the teaser is very purposely ambiguous and may turn ou to have nothing to do with Steve Rogers at all. Regardless of that it has done two things 1) Got me intersted and excited for the book, something I'll definitely be buying and 2) Made me really consider whether we need Steve Rogers to return?
That's right I said it, do we need Steve Rogers and would a return now be the best thing for the character?

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