Quote Originally Posted by Krandor
I was ok with the way the Main portion of Civil War ended, but this whole thing with Captain America dying is 100% bullshit to me. I really don't understand what marvel is thinking here, with as popular as he became again during the entire Civil War saga, killing him off is basically Marvel shooting themselves in the foot.
Marvel is thinking that all of this publicity is going to get people to buy their comics. It happened with the death of Superman- loads of public outrage, in the news a lot, new faces in the stores. Then suddenly people stop caring and stop buying comics.

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