[HowardC]

If you've been following the thor comic (volume 3, which is suprisingly good) you'll know that they are already working on the caps return. In the september issue thor calls out to the cap from the great beyond and thor asks him why he's still lingering and hasn't moved on to valhalla to which the cap replies something along the lines of "I dunno, I just felt like I needed to stay".

Killing the Captain is the biggest bonehead move since optimus prime was killed in the transformers tv show. "Yeah let's take out most popular character throughout the years and kill him! That makes for smart business sense!"