It's so confusing to be a leader these days -- you don't know if people are following you or chasing you.

A good friend of mine recently wrote on her blog about the X-man Rogue and how it seems like they're trying ever so hard to f*ck her life up even worse than they did in her series. I read the same interview (linked here .: Welcome to UncannyXmen.Net - For The Fans, By The Fans :.) it looks like she's gotta very good point. It makes me ask "Why give Rogue her own team just to take it away?" why keep messing with her powers, to me she could be one of the most powerful heroes in the Marvel U? The under use of her abilities to their full potential is very annoying to a semi-fan like myself, it must bug ten types of s#it outta her. I mean think about it she can absorb almost any powers and the knowledge to use them; mix two or three powers (like she did in X-MEN #188 ) and she still gets her a$$ handed to her too many times. She finally gets her own team, Three or more people on her team have tried to kill her many times. Now this: The current writer says there is more power changes for her and a possible return of Gambit.... *SIGH* It makes muh head hurts -- Green eyed Dragon

Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.

Death is irrelevant is comics. I could stop there, but what would be the fun in that? The list of heroes (and villains) who have died and stayed dead is a short. Dead and still dead (off the top of my head) The Flash II, The Atom I, Hawk woman I, Dr. Midnight I & II, Wildcat II, Black Canary I, Hourman III, Peace maker II, Bluebeetle I & II, Dove I, Xorn I & II, Jade, Ben Parker, Ultimate Beast, Scarlet Spider, and a few others The list of the "Round trip death" club is much longer: Jean Grey, Cyclops, Hawkeye, Superman, Wonder woman, Greenlantern (Hal Jordan), Robin II, The Flash III, Hourman I, Jack of Hearts, Thor, Captain Britain, Psylocke, Magneto, Black Tom, Multiple man, Wonderman, Mrs.Marvel, Hawk, Captain marvel, Metamorpho, Deadpool, Strife, The Human Torch I & II, Mr.Fantastic, The Thing, Dr. Doom, Venom, Green Arrow I, Carnage, Strong guy, War machine, Colossus, Nick Fury, Dr.Fate..Sigh the list can go on forever, Some die for years and some don't stay out of the game very long like a revolving door of death. especially with people like Jean Grey and her high speed merry-go-round of death and rebirth. When a character dies it should be meaningful, sometimes the comic book companies try and then change their minds like when DC "killed" Superman, they made a great deal of the death and thereby committed themselves to putting a great deal of effort into explaining how this death had become undone (back peddling). So now to the main point, Will Marvel Keep Captain America dead or is it another trivial annoyance? His death has (for now) a meaning; The "civil war " shouldn't have happened, Some heroes don't want to register because the have loved ones who can get hurt or killed. Will they turn it into a "Alice in Wonderland" type death, it was all a dream or it was faked? Only time will tell. In the fantastic world of comics, clones, robots and shape shifters can impersonate the prospective cadaver and die in his place; and time travel and multidimensional excuses can help him escape his fate altogether, I hope comics will slow this trend and return the our (the readers) fear of their favorite hero staying dead for more than three issues. In closing if i missed any hero or villain in either list please tell me -- Green eyed dragon

Continuity: A: uninterrupted connection, succession, or union b : uninterrupted duration or continuation especially without essential change

Remember when comics kept true to that word? These days nothing much is cannon; Powers, pasts, family and friends all change faster than a Las Vegas stripper. When I was a kid, Heroes never died, Villains never won. costumes stayed the same.

Today Heroes die, the bad guys win, villains become heroes and Heroes become villains, Sometimes that works (Rogue, Hawkeye, Hell any number of Avengers) The Bad guy turning into a good guy thing can sometimes backfire i.e. Magneto: Bad guy, Good guy, Bad guy, Good guy back and forth, dude s#it or get off the fence.

Another thing that gets me: Mind f%cks, a few good examples: Ronin (New avengers) is at first a guy then the mask comes off and it's a lady (Echo from Daredevil) now it's someone else. I think either it's Aunt May or Hawkeye, in realistic thinking it should be Hawkeye. 1. he's back from the dead. 2. Someone else took his name and 3. He's gotta be somewhere. But knowing marvel it'll be Aunt May.

Being back from the dead is probably going to be my next post, untill then -- Green eyed Dragon