Winter Soldier has been cancelled. The title was missing from Marvel’s July previews. Writer Jason Latour confirmed the book ends with issue 19.
“Well, I won’t lie, after spending the last 9 months or so living in Bucky Barnes’s skin, I’m a little heart broken,” he wrote on his blog. “He’s grown to be a very special character to me, maybe my favorite Marvel character ever, and I felt I could’ve written his story for years. The opportunity to do so came at a very trying time in my life and really helped me through some tough stuff, so in it’s way it’s very personal work. I hope that shows. That said though, really, enough cryin’ in my beer. I’m VERY grateful to everyone involved with the book all along the line for making it such a worthwhile experience.”
LaTour thanked artist Nic Klein and editor Lauren Sankaovitch.
Thanks to Robot 6.
Ed Brubaker brought Bucky Barnes back from the dead in his first Captain America arc. Barnes has been transformed into a bionic, brainwashed assassin for the KGB until Steve was able to break his old friend’s conditioning. This story is the basis for the next movie starring the First Avenger. Captain America: The Winter Soldier will hit April 2014.
Back to comic books – Bucky would eventually take on the role of Cap when Steve Rogers was presumed dead. Bucky’s road to redemption continued in a Winter Soldier solo series by Brubaker. Black Widow was the co-star who exited when Brubaker left the book.
What does this mean for Bucky fans?
Sebastian Stan will reprise the role in the Captain America sequel.
Winter Soldier is part of the cast of Secret Avengers by Nick Spencer.
Personally, I’d love to see Steve and Bucky working together again in Cap’s solo book by Rick Remender or Jonathan Hickman’s New Avengers book.
This may be the end of Bucky’s solo book but with a movie on the way this will not mean the end of Bucky in the Marvel Universe.
By Editor