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After reading Captain America #600 I had a few thoughts.

First, although it was (unsurprisingly, given Ed Brubaker’s run on the book) well written, I was vaguely disappointed that it was more a collection of vignettes than a coherent story.

Second, I’m not sure what to make of the gun that Sharon finds. I’m sure it’s intentional, but is it supposed to look like it injected him with something to simulate death? Transported him in time and zapped a corpse into his place? Covered him in red paint?

I know it’s going to be a plot point for Reborn but the vagueness of it just kind of irked me.

Third, last we saw (which I think was at the end of the first run of Thunderbolts, given that Onslaught Reborn was basically (a) a pocket world, and (b) bollocks) wasn’t Rikki Barnes – the Heroes Reborn Bucky – back on Counter Earth on the other side of the sun? How’d she get over here?
I was also surprised to see the ‘bad’ 1950′s Steve Rogers showed up as he’s been absent for about a year. His reappearance here can’t be coincedental and it occurs to me that if that dessicated corpse buried at the bottom of the ocean is Steve Rogers, then Steve might need a new body to house his consciousness…

Honestly, as much as I trust Bru, I’m still ambivalent about Steve’s inevitable return. I like Bucky as Cap, and I think there are a lot of tales to tell with him in the uniform – especially if he’s looking up to Steve as, I don’t know, head of the new S.H.I.E.L.D. after Osborn gets his ass handed to him?

But you know who I really want to see come back as Cap?

Rojhaz!

Nuff said.

Via Neil Gaiman’s blog.

…which means that my column over at Paperback Reader is – oops.

It’s not there because I’ve been busy cranking the work out so I can cut out early today to meet my parents when they get in from the UK. So…next week, I hope – although I’m away all weekend so that may not be either…

Anyway, so as not to leave you high and dry…

Read! How Wil Wheaton got a job on Numbers!

Run! From the 7 Most Easily Escapable Movie Monsters!

Dance! Like Snoopy!

Rage! Over MySpace founder’s lies!

Watch! As the amazing book I Am Legend is transformed into an action movie for the masses!

Behold! The awesomeness that is the return of Rambo!

Marvel! At Neil Gaiman’s very own Krypto!

Wonder! At Travis Charest’s Spacegirl!

Thrill! To the wonderous adventures of Captain Spectre!

You know, you can probably pretty much take what I said about Jack Kirby’s Fourth World and apply it to the Eternals too – they are, to me at least, cousins to each other.

Possibly the kind of cousins that duel with banjos.

One of Kirby’s last (if not the last) creatinos for Marvel, I never really got the appeal of the Eternals.

Granted, that may be because I haven’t actually read Kirby’s original Eternals series – something that I confess I should probably do…but I can’t bring myself to do so simply because I’ve found every encounter I’ve had with these characters to be fundamentally unsatisfying.

Ikaris, Thena, Makkari, Sersi…all of them leave me cold. Well, maybe not Sersi – I’m one of the few who enjoyed her membership in the Avengers (in fact I loved the Harras-era Avengers; maybe I should start a series of Things I like that Other People Don’t columns?). But aside from that…what do they have that, say, the Inhumans don’t (oddly, I’m pretty fond of the Inhumans)?

I mean, sure they have enemies in the shape of the Deviants (great name, no personality), and they have that whole dorky Unimind thing going on, and some cousins on Titan (okay, I kinda like Starfox too but since he never really hung with the Earth Eternals, I don’t count him as one). In fact, the Titanian Eternal Thanos always came across as a Darkseid-lite to me, gauntlet or no, and that’s probably why they’re always linked with the 4th World in my head.

I know that Neil Gaiman is in the middle of a mini re-establishing the Eternals in the MU, and I’ve heard middling reviews – I’m waiting for the inevitable hardback on this one thanks to JRJR’s art, and the fact that 1602 read much better as a whole than monthly,but maybe this’ll be the book that makes me ‘get’ The Eternals.

Or maybe not.

You can read all about the Neil Gaiman book signing in New York last night here.

I’m still trying to work out what’ll get posted here and what’ll get posted at Comic Addiction…I’m sure all will become clear!!