Fat Friend: Guess who died today?
Bookstamper: [thinking...celebrity, Emmanuel Lewis, musician, Cheney] Um, I don't know, who?
Fat Friend: He died like a punk...
Bookstamper: [thinking...oh no! who could it be, this is serious] Who?!
Fat Friend: The Captain
Bookstamper: The Skipper? The Skipper's been dead for years...
Fat Friend: They killed Captain America today!
Bookstamper: Oh.
Fat Friend: Yea.
Bookstamper: Who the hell still reads Captain America?
Fat Friend: There are two alternate [variant] covers, one cheesy one and one cool one. No one knew he was gonna die. They are going for $50 on eBay already. They are sold out everywhere. I went to three different places.
Bookstamper: Really. How many do you have?
Fat Friend: Three--two cool covers & one cheesy one.
Bookstamper: How did he die?
Fat Friend: Shot in the back of the head. Like a punk. As he left the courthouse--shackled, a sniper shot him.
Bookstamper: People still read Captain America?
Fat Friend: So you wanna go tonight?
Bookstamper: After work...loser.
From Yahoo (AP):
The superhero was spawned when a scrawny arts student named Steve Rogers, ineligible for the army because of his poor health but eager to serve his country, agreed to a "Super Soldier Serum" injection. The substance made him a paragon of physical perfection, armed only with his shield, his strength, his smarts and a command of martial arts.
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