WWC: Alex Ross Talks "The Return" To Marvel

[andy khouri]

Alex Ross has been absent from the Marvel Universe for a while, but that's all about to change with the release of a cryptic Captain America image labeled "The Return."

http://www.comicbookresources.com/news/newsitem.cgi?id=11573

[Fatguy]

Interesting, I'm betting its not going to be Steve Rogers, at least at first.

[Brad Barton]

Good god, I really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, REALLY hope they're not bringing Steve Rogers back already.

[Magneto Rocks]

I'd be 90% certain they weren't if this weren't Alex Ross, which is a MASSIVE name. I'm still 60% sure though.

I'm betting that's Namor and Bucky on either side in the pic. So I'm wondering if this is going to be a newly modernised retelling of Cap's "return" from ice in Avengers #4. That could make sense, it could do with an update and it works with all the clues, right down to the Avengers.

I can't imagine Marvel would let- or Ross would want them to let, given what he says- Cap return outside the saga unfolding in his own book.

[Stormshadow]

I'm gonna stick my neck out....I'm sure I'm in the minority, but I like his DC work so much better than his Marvel stuff. I kind of wish he wasn't on this project, if this is indeed it.

[Brad Barton]

Alex Ross: Well, at this point it's only about a week old as an image. I came up with it as a way of teasing out what we're talking about at Marvel. It's to grab the eye of course with the forthcoming return of Captain America. You know there's got to be some kind of return coming, so what is it? It's appropriately mysterious.Someone please tell me this was sarcasm, or him throwing us off the scent, or anything except what it sounds like.

[Kevinroc]

Someone please tell me this was sarcasm, or him throwing us off the scent, or anything except what it sounds like.

Did anyone really expect Cap to stay dead forever? It's pretty obvious Cap is going to come back at some point.

[Sam T.]

Cap is not coming back...this is clearly a WW2 story!!

[DDM]

Did anyone really expect Cap to stay dead forever? It's pretty obvious Cap is going to come back at some point.

Marvel could have waited 2 years at least before Captain America returns from being dead.

[Magneto Rocks]

Marvel could have waited 2 years at least before Captain America returns from being dead.

Maybe they will, seems too obvious..

[Brad Barton]

Did anyone really expect Cap to stay dead forever? It's pretty obvious Cap is going to come back at some point.Undoubtedly.....but dead less than a year?

I'm going to reserve my judgement for now, as it may not be what it seems. (maybe they mean the return of the character, and not necessarily Steve Rogers)

[Samuraixsithlord]

He's only been dead for like 5 months and already he gets ressurected. I wonder how he's going to come back, i'm pretty sure that the super soldier serum has something to do with it. I just wonder with the state of things if he'll still oppose Iron-man and we'll get Civil War II in the Summer of 2009

[Kevinroc]

Marvel could have waited 2 years at least before Captain America returns from being dead.

Cap should come back around January 20th, 2009. :D

[Dr. Chaos]

Every inch of every muscle in my brain tells me this is a swerve by Marvel.

[Sam T.]

Every inch of every muscle in my brain tells me this is a swerve by Marvel.

I'd bet it all on you being right!

[anthony!]

If you read the article, its looking like an in-continuity WW2 story, probably about the Invaders. Cap's death playing into this story probably means that it plays into the framing of the story, or effects some characters in current continuity.

He's not coming back....here. He'll come back in his own book. I still have my money on it being on his 50th issue, or there abouts. Marvel's made it clear that Brubakers is going to be telling this story, if he killed him, he'll be the one to resurrect him.

[drwho]

oh wow!! what a surprise!! :p

[The Shadow]

(maybe they mean the return of the character, and not necessarily Steve Rogers)

It could allude to the return of ... Alex Ross to Marvel.

[The Shadow]

Marvel could have waited 2 years at least before Captain America returns from being dead.

Why 2 years? Why not 2 years and 2 months? Of 3 years? Or the third Wednesday of the 4th year?

Why that arbitrary number?

[Maestro]

This is obviously a "classic" story around when Cap was unfrozen. It will make a great trade in time for the movie

[Chris Johnson]

Looks like the return of The 'Invaders' to me.

[CaptainCanada]

Matt Brady on Newsarama (http://forum.newsarama.com/showthread.php?t=124931&page=2) said in the thread discussion that "in-continuity" means "present day" Marvel:
UPDATE: To clarify a point, as it is referred to as being "in continuity" the story is set in present day Marvel continuity..

My guess is that Cap and the Invaders (those hands on either side are clearly Namor and Bucky, with the flames behind suggesting the Torch) take a time-jaunt to the present day.

[Citizen V]

I KNEW Captain America was going to be brought back.Its in my signature,and it will happen.

[Harold of the Rocks]

Cap is not coming back...this is clearly a WW2 story!!Exactly my thoughts.

It's definitely an Invaders story... a flashback, with Bucky or Namor looking back at how a certain adventure in WWII is affecting them today. Therefore the 'current continuity' criterion is satisfied, and Cap (as Steve Rogers) remains dead in the present.

Some of you guys need to take a Quaalude. Settle down! Breathe deeply and count to ten!

And as far as complaining that he's been dead less than a year...

You try it! Being dead is a real b!tch from what I hear, and one year feels like seven!

Oh yeah. That pichur shore is purty, two!

[Frank]

Alex Ross said this progect was worked on for two years so it can't be the Return of Cap.

[Erik Lehnsherr]

Yeah..he's not returning this quick. They still have to have Red Skull, his daughter, Winter Soldier, and Tony play it out in Cap's book first.

[Doom Hammer]

I KNEW Captain America was going to be brought back.Its in my signature,and it will happen.

You, and everyone else who reads comics. In fact, with the media exposure it got, everyone else in the world.

But I doubt this is it.

[Deep_Sleeper]

Not interested. I say let Ross play in the DC universe. I loved Jim Krueger's take on the Marvel U and I honestly adore Earth X. But that story sits too much in Ross's shadow and doesn't get enough accolades on it's own.

I honestly don't know how much of the plot Ross contributed to in Earth X. From what I get from his interviews, he's very much a DC fanboy. So based strictly on that opinion, I'd say Krueger did the continuity connection in Earth X and I loved all of them.

[Nate Palm]

I KNEW Captain America was going to be brought back.Its in my signature,and it will happen.

Man you really put your neck on the line with that prediction.

I honestly don't know how much of the plot Ross contributed to in Earth X.

I loved the three Earth X series. I've always wondered at exactly how much Ross actually contributed to them.

[Frank]

Not interested. I say let Ross play in the DC universe. I loved Jim Krueger's take on the Marvel U and I honestly adore Earth X. But that story sits too much in Ross's shadow and doesn't get enough accolades on it's own.

I honestly don't know how much of the plot Ross contributed to in Earth X. From what I get from his interviews, he's very much a DC fanboy. So based strictly on that opinion, I'd say Krueger did the continuity connection in Earth X and I loved all of them.

Alex Ross DC stories are boring.

[Deep_Sleeper]

Alex Ross DC stories are boring.

In all honesty, I'm not a big DC fan, so I don't read too much of their stuff. But I think Alex Ross is a DC fan, that's why I think he should be producing work for the universe he cares about.

Other than a few classic heroes, Ross doesn't seem to be that big of a fan of Marvel stuff in general. In the interview, it seemed like he needed an excuse to come back to Marvel rather than wanting to come back to Marvel.

So if he was having such a great time creating books at DC, why does someone have to "mend bridges" for you to work on Marvel property? Do like Frank Miller and Alan Moore and just stay away!

[darkhawk76]

seems a bit like a red herring to me, I doubt it's the 'actual' return of Cap

that's quite a few issues away yet

[Citizen V]

Man you really put your neck on the line with that prediction..

Its a bit much to hope,but that`s all Cap fans have.:( Many are secretly wishing the same.