Captain America: Could a Character’s Death Be Used to Bring the Comics and Movies Closer?

The relationships between comic book writers, artists and editors and their corporate owners in Hollywood has never been more apparent than it is now, as four or more comic book movies hit the theaters just about every year and fans and critics seriously ask questions like “Did Superman start dating Wonder Woman because that’s what they want to do in the movies?’.So far, Marvel has been anything but clever about it. A new #1 issue launched around the time of Marvel’s The Avengers featured the same line-up as the movie had (in spite of the fact that they hadn’t been working in that composition the month before) and was titled Avengers Assemble, the film’s name in a number of foreign markets. They’ve reinvented Nick Fury as a black man, copying the movies which were, oddly, in turn drawing inspiration from the Ultimate Comics Universe.So what’s all this got to do with Captain America: The Winter Soldier, or with the iconic superhero’s escape from Dimension Z this week and the major character death that came along with it?Well, we’ve got an idea.