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alliterator
It's a well known fact that Stan Lee hated kid sidekicks, so when he brought back Captain America in Avengers #4, he took the opportunity to kill off Bucky, Cap's kid sidekick, via exploding plane. This was such a well known death -- and such a big motivator for Cap -- that there used to be a saying in fandom: "The only people who truly stay dead are Jason Todd, Bucky Barnes, and Uncle Ben." C'est la vie.
And that's how it was, right up until Ed Brubaker took over writing Captain America in 2005 and decided to bring Bucky Barnes back. But not as a kid sidekick -- instead, as a brainwashed assassin. Brubaker even used an entire issue -- Captain America vol 5 #11 -- to expand and explore the retcon.
Say hello to the Winter Soldier.
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Happy Birthday, Cap!
Jul. 4th, 2018 10:24 pmbruinsfanI wonder, would this be considered a shout-out?
( In any event, I think I know how that Give Captain America a Boyfriend movement got its start now... )
( In any event, I think I know how that Give Captain America a Boyfriend movement got its start now... )
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.
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Kill or be Killed #9
Aug. 9th, 2017 01:40 pmhistory79
"I hope we're playing the violence in a very real way. I want it to have impact, because this is a story that is playing in that lone killer vigilante genre like TAXI DRIVER and DEATH WISH and so many others, but at the same time it's kind of flipping it around, too. Examining it from a different point of view.
I wanted to really get deep into what it would be like to have to become a vigilante. The kinds of things that physical violence will do to you, to your mental health and your body. It's a story that will grow in scope as it goes along, too, because becoming a killer creates a lot of ripples in the world, and I want to follow those, too."
- Ed Brubaker
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