There's a lot more action in this volume and all the setup from the previous volume pays off with quite a bang. I still think the story could have done with a bit of streamlining, but pretty solid overall.

Captain America and SHIELD struggle to stop a string of terror attacks that are part of a larger plan, and the architect of it has a very old grudge as well as a devastating personal card to play against Cap.I noted when reviewing Vol. 1 that the secret of the Winter Soldier has been out there for some time. I’ve written about him in several of my own reviews for Brubaker’s run of Captain America as well as the Winter Soldier’s own book. But the movie comes out next week and for once Hollywood h...

I’m not gonna toss a tantrum or spew geek rage all over this review (though I may stomp my feet once or twice), but seriously, folks, a lukewarm quality Cap graphic novel written by Ed Brubaker is just a teary-eyed disappointment for me.  Eddie is one of the elite comic writers working today (or ever) and Cap has become his signature series. Before Brubaker came along, Cap was a softening, 1950's anachronism with the beginnings of man-boobs. Ed took Cap's aging, saggy bottom and re-forged him ba...

Winter Soldier arc wraps up in a fucked up but very satisfying way. Steve gets the information that'll change his life. First questioning almost everything his mind is telling him. Facing off against Bucky again and still not believing that's his best friend. From the moments Bucky goes "Who the hell is Bucky" we know Steve isn't going to handle this well. Once Nick Fury starts to tell Steve the truth he still doubts it. When handed information about Winter Solider and his uprising, he still dou...

Seeing this in a comic panel for the first time was a gut punch:This compilation was amazing! So nice to finally visit the source material for my (to date) fave MCU movie and find it does not in the least disappoint, either as a twisty-turny superhero thriller or artistically as Steve Epting does great work bringing the inner conflicts and emotions to life AND nailing the hyperkinetic action sequences. Simply a MUST READ for anyone who likes the characters.

Finally I have read it. Excelsior!

First off, before I say anything about the plot of this, I just wanted to take a brief moment to say how awesome I think the Winter Solider actually looks. Whether it’s on screen or in this comic, Bucky looks sooooooooo damn cool. Who agrees with me? I wish I had a metal arm.Also I just have to say that the new Captain America Civil War movie was great. For all the boring political differences between Rogers and Stark, the catalyst of the war was Bucky. I just couldn’t help but feel sorry for hi...

OMG BUCKY <3Brubaker, you have shown me how amazing you really are with your Captain America run, and I want to thank you for these great stories!

Ed Brubaker’s Winter Solider arc in Captain America is nothing short of stellar. It revitalised a lot of janky old Cap’n America history and gave depth and meaning to older and newer characters alike. Ed Brubaker makes Steve Rodgers into the best version of himself. What I mean by that is that Brubaker has a talent for highlighting the great things about Captain America - sure he’s a guy who cares about Justice and Freedom and will fight for it but he’s also a guy who’s been through real distres...

I still own the trade paperbacks that came in a Volume 1 and Volume 2. I see that The Winter Soldier has since been published in a single volume (Captain America: Winter Soldier Ultimate Collection) which makes perfect sense. It’s impossible for me to rate the two volumes separately. So, I just wrote a single review, which will be exactly the same for both:Captain America: Winter Soldier, Volume 1Captain America: Winter Soldier, Volume 2This is a prime example of how good the graphic medium can

A great insight into the creation of Bucky aka the winter soldier and how him and cap met and built a friendship. The way Brubaker manages to portray Bucky as a complete badass even at the age of 16 is excellent. In this volume we also get to see captain America go up against Bucky and it's a good fight! What's also very interesting is the interaction with the cosmic cube. Because the artwork is drawn in such a real world way it's kind of easy to forget that it's cosmic and can do pretty much an...

This was quite good!It starts with Nick finally telling Steve all thats going on about the winter soldier and I love the way it happens and the way the exposition happens hits Steve and he takes the file and we learn the full history of Bucky and how he became this assassin and then finally feeling regrets over it he and Falcon and even Iron man team to fight Aleksander Lukin and the latter had a great twist and the big battle is finally here and it changes everything between friends!It was a go...

The book where Captain America's sidekick, Bucky, is brought back. Hmmm, this is a sort of sacrilege to me. There are some deaths in the Marvel Universe that I feel are sacred. There's Gwen Stacy. Uncle Ben. And Bucky. So, I'm not sure how I feel about Bucky being back. On the one hand, it pisses me off, but there's a twelve year old in me that loves seeing Bucky again. I collect golden age comics, so Bucky's no stranger to me, and an updated version actually works. I suppose that's the thing: t...

2nd time reading this arc. I'd forgotten about some the changes made in the film. I like the way this story showed Steve struggling with trying to save Bucky when everyone else was convinced he was someone to be stopped. Interestingly enough, 616 Sam was on board with trying to save him when MCU Sam thought he was too far gone. I liked seeing the flashbacks to Bucky's life before he became Cap's sidekick. The decision to have Steve use the cube to give him his memory back is something I actually...

Now that I'm reading this so many shots in the film were set up in similar ways to some of the panels. But wow this was amazing, that last issue where Bucky and Steve face off was more intense than the film. Also i'm glad we had a few cameos in this, it was cool to see Iron Man and Falcon.

About a 95 on a scale of 1 to 100. This was my first time reading this, which makes me really late on such a great story. The reason for this is that I briefly skimmed Winter Soldier some years back & decided I wouldn't be to crazy about & never really thought about it again. Here lately though I've been trying to read some of the popular arcs that Marvel put out in the last 10 years or so, & of course Brubaker's Capt. America run kept popping up on a lot of top 10 lists found on the internet. L...

The Winter Soldier story-line really shouldn't have been split up into two volumes, as all of my concerns in my review of the first volume -- not enough Cap, not enough action, not enough resolution -- were addressed in this volume. That being said, Captain America still doesn't even crack my top ten list of favorite superheroes. He is too one-note with the punching and shielding repeated ad nauseam -- it makes me think of the saying that when all you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a...

A nice collection focusing on the Winter Solider story line with Captain America’s sidekick Bucky Barnes.I was lent this edition after watching the movie, overall I enjoyed reading it but as there’s only so many issues collected together I felt I wasn’t getting the whole story.It would be quite nice if Marvel released a collection that had everything from the MCU stories for those like myself who’s interests were peaked.

As I predicted when I read the first volume, this second episode is much faster and more exciting, but it still doesn't seem like the eighth wonder of the universe ... The set is clear, Steve is destroyed his life sucks and he finally finds out who is behind all this, or rather who are being controlled to carry out all the recent massacres (you could never imagine who he is, especially if you don´t read the title of the book.) This book is very important to the current Marvel mythology

[1st Read- July 2019]Yes. Yes. Yes. A million times yes.I really enjoyed the first volume of Captain America: Winter Soldier but, as I mentioned in my review, it felt as though it was holding back. I gave it the benefit of the doubt and was holding off judgement until I'd read this volume Vol. 2 gave me exactly what I was desperate to see. Were there problems? Only if I'm going to nitpick... Oh, wait, that's why I'm hereThe plot was on it's the way to becoming tight, though there was one thing t...