Brubaker constructs a feasible scenario, at least in superhero comics terms, as to how Bucky Barnes joins his one-time mentor in surviving the decades without having aged considerably, setting him up as a credible menace, then ally. It’s pleasing therefore that Winter Soldier works. Whatever the faith people might have had in Ed Brubaker’s writing talents, the precedents for the return of dead icons weren’t beacons of quality for the most part. So, what better way for a new writer to stamp a statement than by upsetting the status quo? The first is Spider-Man’s one time girlfriend Gwen Stacy, and the other is Captain America’s World War II teenage sidekick Bucky Barnes. As far as the veil beyond is concerned there have been two permanent inhabitants never to be returned. Many have died, only to return later under improbable circumstances. Throughout the Marvel Age from the early 1960s characters have come and gone. Review by Frank Plowright Spoilers in review
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