The Comics Reporter: Spurgeon on the Captain American brouhaha

The Comics Reporter: "Some notes on Marvel's publicity success yesterday and today, the apparent storyline death of Steve Rogers/Captain America due in part to fallout from events in their Civil War mega-crossover. This plot point that unfolded in Captain America #25 led to a mini-avalanche of feature stories that explored the death of iconic characters like Captain America as a fictional device as well as Marvel potentially asserting a point about the divisive national mood, as mirrored fun-house style in the hero vs. hero mini-series."

He's got scads of links. Still don't like gimmicks like this.