Bucky was my 'new' favorite comic character of the last decade thanks to Ed Brubaker's terrific Winter Soldier rethink which I gloriously stumbled into in 2005. I have never looked back - even when I loathed the idea of him as Cap. Jason Latour also did a good run on the character.
As of Original Sin and Marvel pushing everything cosmic (thanks in part to the incoming Star Wars license I am sure), now Bucky will be going interplanetary and to other realms.
Like Asgard (Oh, goody.)
And with additional protagonists. Let's just say I am not a happy camper. Even if Kot uses one of them in Secret Avengers, this should be Bucky's book. I'd like to see him be a lone wolf for awhile and NOT do the intergalactic/realm business. Did they seriously run out of Earth based stories (YES...if it was Brubaker, I'd wager NO, but it is not so...)
I loved Marco Rudy's art in the New Avengers Annual. His style is perfect for Doctor Strange, does not seem so for Buck.
Look, I can crank and be fan woman BEEP-head here (and I know I am this close to exploding), but then I remember Change is constant. You either go with the flow or you do not. I do not here. I'll wait for the trade and if I don't like it, big whoop. It'll be like the recent Moon Knight runs, quickly forgotten.
There is an interpretation of Bucky I do enjoy and he's up on the big screen. That's important, as long as there is an incarnation I enjoy somewhere, terrific. And if not, as Francesco Dellamorte says, "life goes on."
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