A week late to the Party, the "Fire Remender" movement was a scam...but it's still time for someone else to write CAPTAIN AMERICA

So last week, I saw on at least one comic artist's Facebook page, that he was mentioning that with Falcon sleeping with Arnim Zola's daughter, that it was statutory rape, because the last time the character had been seen in the comics, she was 14. Remender went as far as to write into the sequence that the woman in question mentions that she had a certain kind of wine when she turned 23, and that's what leads to the festivities.

Rick Remender, writer on Captain America ever since Ed Brubaker signed his exclusive deal with IMAGE COMICS, lost me as a reader of the comic in the first six issues. While I'm fairly certain others jumped off with his crazy direction he took the book (Cap was sent to a dystopian future, had a son, and a face in his chest, etc), these latest shenanigans are ridiculous. The person who started the whole movement had unfounded information, and sounds like he just wants Remender off the book.

I stopped reading Captain America. It looks like others did, too, because now they are going to the "Who will replace Cap?" story. Again. And I'm sorry, didn't we just get past the ONE TIME we actually accepted someone else into the role, for real, and Marvel put Steve Rogers back into the role last time?

If Bucky, the Winter Soldier, wasn't man enough for the role, no one other than Steve Rogers is. But that isn't what this is about. If Marvel is attempting to get readers back by offering the same story with a different take on it, don't we think at some point, we don't buy in? Maybe it's just time to take Remender off the book, give it to Mark Waid or someone else, and let them have a turn? After all, it's what the distinguished competition is doing on the regular now. Gail Simone is leaving Batgirl. Latoure is leaving Green Arrow. Nicola Scott is leaving Earth 2 (I know she's an artist, but her work is amazing, and I'd put her on th enext major crossover book right now).

When sales dip, try something new, not rehashing an old story. If the team is good, the sales steady, and the stories matter in the canon. If the sales dip, prepare to cancel and relaunch. That IS today's comics world.