It can't be True
 

Surely not

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6431619.stm

Umm, make that, "Comic hero Captain America dies....again".;)
They're in the process of putting the good Captain on the silver screen.
I've a feeling when he comes back to the comics, he and his surroundings will look more like the big screen version than the old comic book character.
Maybe he'll bring Anna N. Smith, with him.

pffth.

Well, in the olden days it was acceptable to wallop your enemies into next week.
Now you lock them up with access to digital TV and therapy.

I can see how it would change the superhero agenda.

Speaking from limited experience here - I only read Vertigo comics myself and that was a good few years ago now.

It's true I saw it on the Colbert Report.

He's not really dead. They are just changing his name to "Captain Limited Rights and Invasion Of Privacy".

What they aren't mentioning in the news blurbs is the context of Cap's death. The Marvel Universe has been going through a metaphorical story arc called Civil War.

From what I gather, the government passed the Superhuman Registration Act "to register all super-powered beings as living weapons of mass destruction and requiring all costumed heroes to unmask themselves before the government and subject themselves to federally mandated standards" (from Marvel Universe).

Cap was the leader of the underground resistance movement, opposing the government's Superhuman Registration Act. The pro-government side is lead by Tony "Iron Man" Stark (and also includes a motley crew of super-villians hired by the government). Aside form those stating their neutrality, the Marvel universe was fractured into these two opposing forces.

Now, Captain America (the symbol, in this case, for the struggle to maintain civil liberties in the face of a restrictive government claiming that security requires a sacrifice of ideals) has been killed. Assasinated on the steps of the Federal Courthouse.

Also, this (from Wikipedia): "At the climax of a battle between Registration and resistence proponants, realizing that his fight against the Registration Act is endangering civilians, he removes and drops his mask to surrender as Steve Rogers. He gives the anti-Registration side the order to stand down. As Captain America is led away, the Punisher picks up the discarded mask."

Why does Marvel Comics hate freedom?

Since Flint chose to post insightfully and seriously, I decided I pick up his slack, here.

not to mention tony stark (aka Iron Man) is a military-industrialist and stands to make a good bit of change out of the whole deal... but hey! didn't tony stark die a decade or so ago?