Captain America and Bucky 620: When they met

[starwolf_oakley]

So here's how Steve Rogers met James "Bucky" Barnes. And nothing about Bucky accidentally finding out Steve was Captain America and becoming his sidekick right then and there.

Written by by Ed Brubaker. Art by Chris Samnee. Cover by Ed McGuinness.









Wait, Bucky was 16 when he did all those assassination missions Captain America "couldn't be seen doing?"
Sheesh.



Somwhere Bucky reads a Captain America comic and gripes "This makes me look 8 years old!" Don't know where or if it was a Brubaker issue.

Comments

[zylly]

You know, as good as all this was (and it is), I really hate the need to make Bucky into some super-deadly, does the stuff Steve can't kind of guy.

Read the old Invaders comic. It proves time and time again that without any special background or any more training than what Steve provided, Bucky was already at a high enough caliber to be Steve's partner.

[kore]

It looks like Coates's Cap run may pick up a lot from Brubaker, we already got the "Bucky had the stones/darknesss to do what I could not, for I am a warrior who hates war" bit in that #1.

[nyadnar17]

Which is a pretty vast misinterpretation of what happend.

Cap didn't do the dirty work because if he was discovered doing it it would be a PR nightmare, not because he was ethically unable to do it.

The idea that Cap would have Bucky, basically his younger brother, doing shit he was ethically unable to stomach doing personally is really screwed up.

[kore]

Coates does blame it on Bucky getting Hydrated: "I am a warrior who hates war. Bucky sees things differently. Once, evil men locked him in his own body and made him the perfect killer. By the time Bucky got out, he'd seen the wost of human nature....and learned to accept the losses" is the full quote. Whereas Brubaker had Steve say "Bucky did the things I couldn't. I was the icon. I wore the flag. But while I gave speeches to troops in the trenches, he was doing what he'd been trained to do," back in WWII. So Coates is riffing on Brubaker a bit.

[starwolf_oakley]

Well, in the comics, Bucky wasn't Hydrated, he was KGB'ed. That was changed to HYDRA in the movies.

Which in retrospect, is remarkably like how the James Bond movies were different from the books. Ian Flemming had "The Russians" as bad guys and SMERSH was controlled by the Russian government. The Bond movies had Russian villains who were really working for SPECTRE, or themselves in the case of "Goldeneye." I'm not sure the Bond movies ever had "The Russians" as the villains.

[kore]

Right, I meant that Brubaker has that happening in WWII. Coates has it happening after Bucky is captured.

[silverhammerman]

I was just thinking about this story arc the other day. I recall really enjoying it, as it was one of the first story arcs I picked up in my LCS. Surprised I don't see this arc come up more in recommendation lists for people who liked the movies.

I know it's not super feasible but I kind of wish that Marvel did this kind of clarification/condensation of complicated continuity more often.

[lbd_nytetrayn]

Wait, Cap's identity was already known at this point?

[starwolf_oakley]

To a select few at the time.