Warning: this column contains full spoilers for Captain America: Steve Rogers #1!
It's doubtful that Marvel anticipated Captain America: Steve Rogers #1 becoming their most controversial release since the final chapter of Spider-Man: One More Day, but that's what happened when the new series debuted last week. Fans almost immediately took to the Internet to register their very vocal disapproval over that issue's big cliffhanger, the reveal that Steve Rogers has apparently been a Hydra agent since he was a young boy. It wasn't long before writer Nick Spencer and various other folks at Marvel started receiving death threats from readers who seem to have quite literally been driven mad by this plot twist. Even ignoring those more extreme forms of overreaction, it's difficult to understand why this particular twist has so many readers feeling so upset. Marvel isn't going to suddenly destroy one of their most iconic characters because of one, simple story.
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It's doubtful that Marvel anticipated Captain America: Steve Rogers #1 becoming their most controversial release since the final chapter of Spider-Man: One More Day, but that's what happened when the new series debuted last week. Fans almost immediately took to the Internet to register their very vocal disapproval over that issue's big cliffhanger, the reveal that Steve Rogers has apparently been a Hydra agent since he was a young boy. It wasn't long before writer Nick Spencer and various other folks at Marvel started receiving death threats from readers who seem to have quite literally been driven mad by this plot twist. Even ignoring those more extreme forms of overreaction, it's difficult to understand why this particular twist has so many readers feeling so upset. Marvel isn't going to suddenly destroy one of their most iconic characters because of one, simple story.
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