The problem I have, I think, is that we're not really talking OMD, here. We're talking half a decade of this stuff. I mean, I did finish Civil War, I did! I told myself for more than a year that all of that stuff had to stop, but it didn't. It kept going and going. And, unlike OMD, this stuff hasn't been panned by everyone, it's done pretty well. I am fearful that this represents the new face of recent continuity. That Cap being back will not lead to all of this being, more or less, put behind everyone, but that it will have lingering narrative consequences.

So when you tell me it's now all over and things are back to as normal as they ever get, I . . . am thinking that Civil War and what came afterwards is the new normal.

But I will look into it . . . though all of this does create a question in my mind that goes back to the original post. If everything is over and my feelings are wrong - why do we need to take Cap back? Isn't he back? What's to take back if our New Deal Democrat Steve Rogers Captain America has returned?