Quarantine brings lots of time to read so I guess there’s a little silver lining to be found in our lives of social distancing and self-isolation. While I’ve been at home, I’ve been doing a fair amount of reading. Since I’ve had Bucky Barnes on my mind lately, I thought the time was right to finally read Ed Burbank’s “Winter Solider,” the 2005 storyline that served as the inspiration for one of the MCU’s most well-received films. I figured I’d use the format I chose when I wrote about Marvel’s epic “Civil War” storyline a little over a year ago, too. With a story so widely known and discussed in popular (comic) culture circles, where there any surprises left to be found reading it fifteen years after the fact? Continue reading
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