@thexx said:
@slimj87d: I need to start reading the entire article. After reading the article this time. I feel a whole lot better about this Mini Series.
The Winter Soldier, for the uninitiated, is Bucky Barnes, Captain America’s World War II sidekick. After an injury in the same crash that appeared to take Cap’s life, Barnes was captured by the Russians, brainwashed, and given a cybernetic arm. He then sat in cold storage, woken every few years for a top-secret mission for his new masters, until being discovered in modern times by Captain America, who saved him from himself and restored his memories.
Here, though, he is most definitely the enemy, and Remender says he’ll be “a force of nature, and when he is tracking you, you are in a bad way.” The character stars as sort of a protagonist-antagonist, with editor Tom Brevoort saying “I’m not sure that you always know quite who to root for,” because while he’s against the “good” forces of the US and S.H.I.E.L.D., he is also just so unstoppable.
“He was a tool who had very little control of his own mind,” Remender said, “but I will be exploring how Bucky Barnes is underneath all of it still. Even back then, there was a piece of him trying to stand back up.”
The mini-series will tie directly to Remender’s Captain America, with both Winter Soldier and Ran Shen appearing in November’s Captain America #13. Shen is the villain there, further complicating their portrayal in the past.
Hopefully if this Mini sells well Marvel will give Winter Soldier a full series again.
Yeah. If anything will surface, it will happen 6 to 9 months after the mini. I think Marvel has everything planned out 6 to 9 months in advance.
Or I know that Ed Brubaker said he would like to return to write the Winter Soldier one of these days so they may give him a long series run again when Ed Brubaker makes his awesome return to the series.
I was really hoping Ed Brubaker would be the one to elaborate on the Winter Soldiers huge potential background, but lets see what Remender can do.
It's very tough for us Bucky fans to keep wishing and praying for such a small character to become mainstream. But hey, he's appearing in a movie! His popularity surely will rise quite a bit, and from the looks of it, they're going to make him a force to be recon with. Even the director of the first Captain America said he's more interested in making a movie about the Winter Soldier.
Maybe we'll get lucky and one day the Winter Soldier will have his own movie. Or at least a one shot 25 minute one like agent carter.
To me, this would be the PERFECT prologue to Captain America: The Winter Soldier
Steve obviously has problems with SHIELD and quits at the end. Later, you see Bucky in SHIELD custody after everyone thinks he is dead. Nick Fury sits down with him in a room and asks him "So... Are you ready to atone for your mistakes?" And then the camera focuses on Bucky and cuts off.
Pretty much, I'm hoping Bucky takes over for Steve in SHIELD and becomes the black operative they need. The type of super soldier they need that has intel on the evils and inner workings of America that is much better suited in SHIELD than Steve is.
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