Continuing where we left off last week with the death of a beloved hero, this week we will be looking at the death of an icon. Captain America has been the symbol of American idealism for centuries; his heroics served as an inspiration for all military personnel during World War One and it would have been a crime to send him out without a bang. Captain America: The Death Of The Dream was a secret that concluded the Marvel's Civil War story arc. The story was kept very "hush hush" until its release, and when it hit news stands it became national news in all forms of media.
Captain America: The Death Of The Dream is the next graphic novel to make it onto our genre defining comics list. Killing off captain was a dramatic movie for Marvel to pursue, but when they agreed to put the nail in the coffin they did it with a mystery that Sherlock Holmes would have been proud of. Within the first few pages of the book we see Captain America making his way up the steps of the federal courthouse in handcuffs to make what we assume was an address about the Superhuman Registration Act, something that was the defining basis behind Civil War. A red dot, one shot fired, and a martyr is made. But, it took more than one shot to finish the job; multiple shots were fired but no gunmen were witnessed; thus our mystery for the second shooter begins.
This novel gets right to the point of it in making Captain America's final moments all within the first issue. The remainder of the book is from Bucky/ The Winter Soldier, Sharon Carter, and Falcon's point of view. From their different perspectives they each are faced with a mystery that must be solved in order to find out who was behind Steve Roger's death; this particular novel is very satisfying to even the avid Marvel reader and has a nice cliffhanger that makes you reconsider the who are heroes and who are wannabes.
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