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A review by captwinghead
Captain America: Winter Soldier, Volume 1 by Ed Brubaker
3.0
I guess I never wrote a review for this.
This is the second time I've read this volume. I'm re-reading because I want a refresher on Bucky Barnes - as he's written in the comics, anyway. The films didn't really give him a lot of the same depth.
Anyway, this is really just a glimpse of the Winter Soldier. Whatever my complaints about the way this run chose to use Sharon Carter (poorly, lets just leave it at that), I like the way Brubaker set up the plot with the Winter Soldier. It's well paced, the story builds well with Red Skull's apparent death and Lukin.
Most importantly, I'm a sucker for any story that shows how grief has affected Captain America's life. This series takes place after the Avengers Disassembled storyline and it shows how losing the team and Hawkeye's death have affected Cap. He's meaner, he's having trouble sleeping and he's spending all of his time alone. All he has is the job and... that's pretty much always how Steve's life has been. He gets a new purpose (taking down Red Skull in the 40s, the Avengers in the 60s, SHIELD in the 70s, Avengers again later on) and then the rug gets ripped away from him (frozen in the ice, the team breaking up a few times, becomes disenfranchised with the government and becomes Nomad, the Avengers break up). Steve keeps having to start over and it's an intriguing thing to watch.
Anyway, if you're a Cap fan like me, you've already read this so I don't have to say it's a recommend. Admittedly, if you also hate seeing Sharon Carter get the short end of the string, this series becomes painful to read towards the end of this arc.
This is the second time I've read this volume. I'm re-reading because I want a refresher on Bucky Barnes - as he's written in the comics, anyway. The films didn't really give him a lot of the same depth.
Anyway, this is really just a glimpse of the Winter Soldier. Whatever my complaints about the way this run chose to use Sharon Carter (poorly, lets just leave it at that), I like the way Brubaker set up the plot with the Winter Soldier. It's well paced, the story builds well with Red Skull's apparent death and Lukin.
Most importantly, I'm a sucker for any story that shows how grief has affected Captain America's life. This series takes place after the Avengers Disassembled storyline and it shows how losing the team and Hawkeye's death have affected Cap. He's meaner, he's having trouble sleeping and he's spending all of his time alone. All he has is the job and... that's pretty much always how Steve's life has been. He gets a new purpose (taking down Red Skull in the 40s, the Avengers in the 60s, SHIELD in the 70s, Avengers again later on) and then the rug gets ripped away from him (frozen in the ice, the team breaking up a few times, becomes disenfranchised with the government and becomes Nomad, the Avengers break up). Steve keeps having to start over and it's an intriguing thing to watch.
Anyway, if you're a Cap fan like me, you've already read this so I don't have to say it's a recommend. Admittedly, if you also hate seeing Sharon Carter get the short end of the string, this series becomes painful to read towards the end of this arc.