Random Super Heroes

I know that I am kind of late in covering this earth shaking news, but I had a crazy busy weekend. I first heard the news that Cap was back from Quit Your Day Job and ComicBookMovie.com. Here is an official statement from Marvel.com:

Steve Rogers, the Sentinel of Liberty, was cut down in a hail of gunfire in March's CAPTAIN AMERICA #25. And whether or not you agree with the decision, he's still dead. But a character as iconic and important as Cap can never truly die. Who better to reimagine Cap for a new age, a new character, a new costume, than Alex Ross? Working closely with Ed Brubaker, Steve Epting and Tom Brevoort, Captain America makes his return—or debut, if you prefer—in January's CAPTAIN AMERICA #34. [s]

When I heard back in March that Captain America, the man of 'truth liberty and the American way,' was dead I thought to myself 'what are they [the writers] doing ??' When you think of classic Marvel super heroes Captain America is at least in the top five and then they go and kill him off. But as I found out from the reading the rest of the Marvel news article it says that everything was "all very, very planned out, believe it or not." Another interesting point that the writers talked about was that Captain America was old school according to the world of today and with this new Captain America they would have a chance to modernize the character. But ironically the inspiration they used for the new costume was the 1940s movie serial costume design. And to top it all off they gave him a gun; it will be interesting to see if the gun is a way to give the new Cap an iconic look or if it will play a major role in defeating the the villains he will face.
The writers also brought up an insightful point :

"As is typical when you change a classic character around," explains Brevoort, "there are going to be some who'll love it and some who'll loathe it. But it does have the advantage that this isn't Steve Rogers, so what might seem right or wrong for his Captain America won't necessarily hold true in the same way for our new guy." [s]

So, even though there can be a potential for losing fans forever they still went through with it. I think if they wanted to bring the old Cap into the modern era they could have come up with a good transformation story, or another idea I thought of is they could of a made a passing the torch story where the old Cap chooses/trains the new Cap; and no one would have to end up dead. But now we all have to wait and see how it all comes to together in January when CAPTAIN AMERICA #34 comes out.