A review by troystory
Bucky Barnes: The Winter Soldier, Volume 2: Last Days by Aleš Kot

3.0

First things first: I still adored the art in this volume (minus the, uh, simpler style). It was breathtaking, it was captivating, and it was utterly gorgeous. The story itself, however, felt a little weaker here than it was in the first volume. I think the series could have been much better without future!Bucky and Crossbones, and I probably would have loved it a lot more if it focused on developing Bucky's relationship with Ventolin, who seriously deserves a solo run (or at least another appearance!). I was also a little confused by Loki, who they sort of mentioned in the first volume but then kind of abandoned.

To be fair, this isn't the worst series I've ever read, and it was still good enough that I liked it. I also think that if they stretched this story over more issues, and had more room to explore the plot, it could have been more polished and smooth, and that would have made it better.