scans_daily: Escaping the Grave

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@ 2010-08-27 04:59 pm UTC

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char: baron zemo/helmut zemo, char: black widow/natasha romanova, char: captain america/steve rogers, char: falcon/sam wilson, char: lady bullseye/maki matsumoto, char: winter soldier/james bucky barnes, creator: butch guice, creator: daniel acuna, creator: ed brubaker, creator: marjorie liu, publisher: marvel comics, title: black widow, title: captain america

Escaping the Grave

Three scans from Black Widow #5 and four from Captain America #609.

After defeating the arc's villain, things in Marjorie Liu's Black Widow story wrap up; included is a bit here that addresses one thing some people wondered about in my post on #4.

Meanwhile, over in Captain America, Baron Zemo continues to be a very naughty boy. He leaves a message in Bucky's apartment (seemingly written in lipstick on his bathroom mirror) to meet him where Bucky was born, which he interprets as being Fort LeHigh, Virginia, where he met Steve for the first time.

They fight.

Meanwhile, Steve, Sam, and Natasha fight Iron Hand Hauptmann, Zemo's minion through this arc; Hauptmann does pretty well, really, considering he's a nobody fighting three recognizable characters. Eventually, of course, the heroes close the distance.

That's what you get for calling yourself "Iron Hand", dude.

You'll notice how those two pages look rather different from the preceding one; this issue is a particularly compelling demonstration of how different inking can make an artist's pencils look, because there's one artist (Butch Guice), one colourist (Paul Mounts), and three different inkers on these pages. The results vary considerably, with some emphasizing the Kirby/Colan-esque elements, others bringing out elements of Guice's more realistic style.

Anyway, Zemo's been Batmaning everybody this entire arc, and defeats Bucky.

Zemo's playing pronoun games and such here; from Brubaker's comments on CBR about how it was good people were speculating about his motives, I'm guessing (based on Hauptmann's above comments) that he dislikes the idea of Bucky escaping his past in the way he's been trying to do, given that Zemo himself has never managed that. Given how he's avoided killing anyone so far in this story, I'm starting to wonder if this isn't meant to be a Hunter Zolomon-style gambit.

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	no subject icon_uk 2010-08-27 10:41 pm UTC (link)
	IS his backstory as Winter Soldier known to that many people he works with? (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent) (Thread) (Hide 6 comments) (Show 6 comments)

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colonel_green
2010-08-27 10:56 pm UTC (link)

It suppose it's a bit hard to say, but we haven't seen him be withdrawn about it once he's actually intoduced to people: apart from the regular Cap cast, we've explicitly seen Iron Man and Wolverine learn about it - it's kind of hard to imagine any convincing explanation of why he's back skirting the Winter Soldier period.

If this was meant to be damaging Bucky's stock with the heroes themselves, I would think we'd actually have seen some evidence of it - this story has been all about the news media (ie, the people who tell the MU public who to hate today), with the only reactions from the heroes being Steve, Sam, and Natasha.

And with the heroes, apart from Steve's say-so, everybody in the superhero community has either been mind-controlled or known and fought somebody who was mind-controlled. It's hard to see this being an effective weapon in the hero community.

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	no subject colonel_green 2010-08-27 10:57 pm UTC (link)
	Oh, and Hawkeye knows. (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent) (Thread) (Hide 4 comments) (Show 4 comments)

	no subject terra 2010-08-27 11:11 pm UTC (link)
	So does Carol. He went into it in a lot of detail, with her, and they aren't particularly close. (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent) (Thread) (Hide 3 comments) (Show 3 comments)

	no subject skalja 2010-08-28 12:32 am UTC (link)
	When was that, out of curiosity? (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent) (Thread) (Hide 2 comments) (Show 2 comments)

	no subject terra 2010-08-28 12:35 am UTC (link)
	Uh, I think it was the World War Hulks one-shot. Something connected with the recent Hulk stuff, though. Carol also joked with Bucky about internet dating, and then he said he didn't know what that was. (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent) (Thread) (Hide 1 comment) (Show 1 comment)

	no subject skalja 2010-08-28 01:21 am UTC (link)
	Aha! Thanks. (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent)

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