Winter Soldier Investigation Paperback

i love this book and think bucky is a good ideir and i like the darker side to it and think if u like capitan america ull like this i love the winter soldger story and this carrys on from ther

Winter Soldier is a continuation of Ed Brubaker's Captain America run and is brilliant. This book provides a new direction for Bucky Barnes and starts to look at the ramifications of the life he lead as the Winter Soldier. I found the more spy thriller aspect of the book fun and it gives some interesting insight into characters that could have become second tier very quickly.in addition to Brubakers excellent writing, this book is boosted by some excellent art and colours. it has a very distinctive feel and each page is worth spending some time just looking at it to take in all the detail.Overall I would highly recommend this book and for people to go out and get the monthly issues.

After the hype of The Falcon & the Winter Soldier I decided to go back in on Bucky and this story is fantastic. The MCU owe a lot to these stories! Onto volume 2

The Longest Winter marks the return of Bucky Barnes to the role of Winter Soldier after a brief stint as Captain America. To be honest I am quite happy to see him back out of the red, white and blue and into something a little darker. Bucky Barnes has always been a favourite of mine so this series is a must own for me as we get to explore the consequences of his varied past in a little more detail.For the most part I was not disappointed in this but I would have liked a little more. Despite my love for Bucky he can at times come across a little bland and that was a bit of an issue here. He wasn't interesting enough which was a shame as there was room for a little more depth. I had hoped that him partnering with Black Widow in this series would blow my mind as she is another comic book character I adore but I was disappointed to see her reduced to a love interest that did little to further the plot. She came across as a love sick side kick and that is not where I want this character to go at all.Despite some issues with characterisation I really did enjoy the political thriller nature of this comic. The storyline was interesting and did give us more of a glimpse into the past of The Winter Soldier. It was gripping from beginning to end but really came into its own when Dr Doom showed up, he had personality in spades and some of the brightest moments in this comic came from him.The illustration was top notch and I really enjoyed the dark setting of the whole thing. All in all it was a good start to what has the potential to be an awesome series. I hope that in the future we see a little more depth to Bucky's character and a little more exploration of his past.Very entertaining but lacking in depth, The Longest Winter packs some punch but needs more characterisation to become great.

A good enough story but nothing overly gripping or that makes it stand out as a must read. Worth a look at to pass time. It is more like an over the top James Bond or Mission Impossible than a superhero story.

It's a decent start to the series. Very cool seeing Red Ghost and his super apes turn up. Looking forward to seeing where this one goes.

Ed Brubaker reinvented Bucky Barnes, and here he continued to add to his character as well as fill in more gaps from his missing years. Great story, but very poor art.

Serie carina che "chiude" le trame in sospeso sul Winter Soldier che era state aperte nelle serie di Captain America.Brubaker ha un ottimo modo di scrivere le storie di supereroi ma qui e nei seguenti volumi comincia un pò ad avere il fiato corto.Belli come sempre, invece, i disegni di Butch Guice.Consigliato con riserva o solo ai completisti del ciclo di Captain America di Ed Brubaker.

L'une des manips les plus habiles et les plus saluées de ces dernières années chez Marvel a été la résurrection proposée par Ed Brubaker du side-kick historique du Captain America, Bucky Barnes. Mise à part une résurection de Gwen Stacy, il n'y avait pas plus tabou et donc improbable qu'un retour de Bucky...On sait donc que, gravement blessé mais pas mort, Bucky a été récupéré, soigné et reprogrammé par les soviétiques de manière à en faire un tueur de tout premier plan pendant toute la période de la Guerre Froide. Retrouvé par Steve Rogers, le désormais très sombre Bucky endosse le costume solaire du Captain America après l'assassinat de Rogers au moment de la Guerre Civile. Mais Bucky meurt une seconde fois courageusement au combat, au cours du tout récent crossover 'Fear Itself'. Sauf, apprend-t-on avec ce TPB, qu'alors qu'il était effectivement à l'article de la mort, Fury a trouvé le moyen de le sauver et de garder ensuite le secret, même pour Steve Rogers ! Ce dernier, lorsqu'il apprend la vérité, est hors de lui et Fury passe un mauvais quart d'heure...Quoi qu'il en soit, voici le "Kid" (comme l'appelle Fury) revenu à son identité secrète de "Soldat de l'Hiver", sauf que cette fois, il mènera ses "black ops" pour Fury et le monde libre, avec son amie Natasha "Black Widow" comme alliée. Pour sa première mission, il lui faut en partie s'affronter au résultat de ses anciennes actions pour le compte des soviétiques et faire alliance avec l'un des super-vilains les plus dangereux du monde Marvel...Ce retour de Brubaker sur "sa" création, qui plus est avec comme complice le classique et reliable Jackson "Butch" Guice, est terriblement efficace. Bravo !

For a long time, Bucky Barnes was the deadest superhero in the world. Though other heroes died and came back, making the ultimate sacrifice just to sell more issues of their comics, Bucky remained blown to pieces somewhere deep in the ocean. That Captain America survived was just impossible to believe, though his return heralded a new era in comicdom and still maintains an international level of attention.As it turns out, James Buchanan Barnes didn’t die after all. Ed Brubaker breathed new life into the character, bringing him back in a horrific manner and even equipping Bucky with a more adult origin than he’d ever had at any time before. Dick Grayson was wimp by comparison. Dick, who remains one of my favorite heroes, got trained to be a superhero sidekick and gradually stepped into his own.Bucky was trained to be a commando, a boy who could slip in behind enemy lines and wreak havoc with German troops. A kid who laid down his life not only with Captain America, but also on his own during missions even Cap didn’t know about.That was just the retcon. Brubaker pulled out all the stops when he turned Bucky into the Winter Soldier, one of the most feared killing machines of the Cold War. There’s a lot of history between then and now, and you can find it in the pages of Captain America’s own graphic novels.Everyone (mostly) believed that Brubaker had again killed Bucky after his sojourn as the new Captain America, but that was a fabrication created by Bucky and Nick Fury. Bucky was trained to operate in the shadows, and after his near-miss with death, he wanted to return to those dark places and fight the fight he knew how to pursue.In the opening five-issue arc (with an issue of Captain America thrown in to explain how Bucky is still alive), the Winter Soldier has returned and he’s paired with his lover, the Black Widow, to hunt down three Cold War sleeper agents who have a world threatening secret.Brubaker is a master at retconning characters, and he does it again with the Red Ghost. Initially, the Ghost was Ivan Kragoff, a supervillain who subjected himself and three trained apes to the same cosmic radiation that gave the Fantastic Four their powers. In the pages of The Longest Winter, Kragoff shifts from what in the past has kind of been a laughable character to a formidable one.The Winter Soldier and Black Widow continue the chase through the back doors of spydom, a place Brubaker is totally confident and at home in. The story quickly switches from feeling like a superhero strip to a spy story. The plans, the moves, the setbacks, all play out like a Mission: Impossible assignment.When the story eventually reveals the true threat to the world, and it involves Doombots created by Doctor Doom, the stakes are raised as high as they can be. The Winter Soldier and the Black Widow have no choice but to attempt to bring Doctor Doom into the fold to help bring the threat to a close.The world is still standing, so we know how that turned out, but the adventure is getting there. Brubaker is a master of pacing and character, and all the pieces of his layered plot fit well together.Butch Guice’s artwork looks like captured celluloid. The action, the shadows, the cities, and the dark rooms all come to vibrant life. The inking is heavier than I generally like in a comic, but in this strip it’s the backbone of the mood and the threat.Pick this one up, but don’t expect a quick, breezy read. The story and characters draw you in, and the artwork will guarantee you’ll flip back through it just to see Guice laying out some of the best panel work he’s ever done.

Very entertaining