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A review by trike
Captain America: Winter Soldier, Volume 1 by Ed Brubaker
4.0
Finally getting around to reading this, a series that’s considered a modern classic, and I can see why. Brubaker excels at writing espionage and he’s hitting on all cylinders here. If I have one minor complaint, it’s the reveal of who the Winter Soldier is. Marcus and McFeeley did it better in the film, but then they were working off of this excellent springboard.
I love the MCU, because it has been almost pitch-perfect in its adaptation of the source material. When you have stuff this good, I’m sure it makes the job both harder and easier. They can’t fit all the complexities of the book into a single movie, so they have to distill it. Superbly, I think. But that makes this book feel like the extended director’s cut, underscoring how everyone did their job so well.
I love the MCU, because it has been almost pitch-perfect in its adaptation of the source material. When you have stuff this good, I’m sure it makes the job both harder and easier. They can’t fit all the complexities of the book into a single movie, so they have to distill it. Superbly, I think. But that makes this book feel like the extended director’s cut, underscoring how everyone did their job so well.