Gen-X Disdain Killed Captain America Here's an article from Details about the recent "death" of Captain America in the Marvel comics that takes the incident seriously and uses it as a launching point for an extended rumination on folks born 1964-1980 and what heroism means to them. Writer Ed Brubaker is one of the main sources for quotes here. I think the article presses some its points -- I don't think anyone considers Matt Damon and Kurt Cobain and Pat Tillman in the same way, and the distinctions made between them are important -- but it's sort of nice to read a piece on a comics event that's a consideration of ideas rather than an analysis of its marketing effectiveness.
