Coming soon to a theater near you… Captain America: The Winter Soldier.Actually, I’m not sure how much of this one will be in the upcoming movie because it mainly sets the stage for what happens next. When I read it originally I gave it three stars, but looking back now you can see how much Ed Brubaker accomplished in arranging all the pieces to start his run of writing Cap. Considering that it was one of the longest and most satisfying eras of a mainstream superhero I’ve seen in some time, I’ve...

Here we go! A re-read I wanted to do for awhile. When I was in High School I began working around 14. I liked doing it more than going to school, and would even cut school, just to go to work more to get money. Besides using it to make music I loved buying comics. I tried to keep up with Ultimate Spider-man and Amazing Spider-man back then among other titles. However, my aunt got me the Captain America Ominbus of Ed Brubaker as a gift for my 18th Birthday. I opened it up and fell in LOVE with th...

More like 3.5 stars.So Captain America 2 is going to be subtitled Winter Soldier. Cue me tracking down the Winter Soldier comics to get an idea of what's coming. I'm not sure how this will translate, but I guess we'll see. I have faith. For the most part.Possibly the best thing Brubaker has done here is his Cap. His characterization feels spot-on to me. There's the beginning of a very interesting story here, with the Red Skull seemingly assassinated and somebody messing with Cap's memories. Ther...

3.5 stars. I was really torn between 3 and 4 stars on this one so I ended up at 3.5 stars. There are some really good aspects to this revamp of Cap as well as a few drawbacks that hopefully will be corrected in later volumes. PROS: On the good side, Brubaker does a nice job finding Captain America's "voice" in this series. Cap, like Batman, has been around for so long that his persona has gone through a number of iterations, some of which have failed to truly reflect who Cap is. I think this ser...

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

This has been one of my favourites since I first read it, which must be about 5 or 6 years ago now (maybe longer).I remember when I first started reading it and thinking how realistic Steve Eptings art looks, yet it still has a comic book touch to it, how great it would be as a movie. And now we're seeing this stuff adapted into the movies.This is what made me a Brubaker fan and lead me to read all his creator owned work and most of his Marvel & DC stuff.And it's only just the beginning...

In one word: Underwhelming. Lots of back story, lots of time spent on Agent 13, Nick Fury, Nomad, Bucky Barnes, and various villains, what time there is spent with Cap alternates between him brooding and hallucinating, there's not a ton of action, and the final issue is an aside focused solely on Nomad, which isn't very good. Oh, and not much is resolved by the end of this volume, as the arc finishes in Captain America: Winter Soldier, Volume 2. So I guess I have another trade paperback to read

The BasicsRed Skull, Captain America’s most notorious foe, is found murdered by a sniper. Through a flurry of flashbacks, Steve Rogers has to find out who is seemingly targeting him and why.My ThoughtsThis book had a flaw for me that couldn’t be avoided: I know who the Winter Soldier is. When you get into comic book culture, an osmosis takes place wherein you’re spoiled richly for things you haven’t even read yet. The magic of this story is clearly in discovering that the impossible has happened...

I've been kinda slow to jump on the Captain America fan club train. Probably because he comes across as so sugary sweet that it hurts my teeth. But then, I usually cheer for the bad guys so what do I know? My friend Jeff had told me that I should read Brubaker's version. I figured if anyone could make me like this character..Brubaker was it. He is one of my comic authors I actually don't one star. This one isn't bad. It starts off with Red Skull plotting dastardly deeds but that stops in its...

I really enjoyed this. I was never really attracted to Captain America when i was younger. I thought he was cheesy and yet i loved Superman!?Anyway i was recommended the Brubaker Omnibus collection by Blindzider and Relstuart and i'm glad they did. In this first volume you can see that Brubaker has really invested a lot of time into this. In the foreword he basically said that he was a massive fan of Cap, but only one person really did him any justice and so he wants to do it right. This run on

There is a mysterious figure causing trouble in Captain America's life. Who could it be? Oh, wait. They put the name of this mysterious figure on the cover of the book. Oh, well. I guess that spoils the mystery that this story is trying to tell.

Another superhero that I mostly know through the movie adaptations. I like the movie Winter Soldier quite a bit.The artwork was mostly ok. Parts where flat and not terribly good in my opinion. The story started interesting enough with the Red Skull. A lot of flashbacks, a bunch of superheroes and bad guys. The story was suspenseful enough to hold my interest to about the midpoint, then the whole thing lost steam for me. Ok, I guess, but nothing special.

I guess I never wrote a review for this. This is the second time I've read this volume. I'm re-reading because I want a refresher on Bucky Barnes - as he's written in the comics, anyway. The films didn't really give him a lot of the same depth.Anyway, this is really just a glimpse of the Winter Soldier. Whatever my complaints about the way this run chose to use Sharon Carter (poorly, lets just leave it at that), I like the way Brubaker set up the plot with the Winter Soldier. It's well paced, th...

I really enjoyed this. The interlude about Jack Monroe was a really cool addition to the end of it. I'm definitely going to read the next one in this series.

This book was too good, focusing on Steve as he starts a new life and then shifting focus to Red Skull whose meeting with Alexander Lukin and comes across Winter soldier and knowing who it is he wants that and things with cosmic cube and then the story shifts to him dying and Cap investigating that sets off a whole lot of things from him remembering the past in weird ways, fighting AID and then crossbones, going to Russia and remembering the incident with Vasily Karpov and the Kronas village to

This digital edition collected the first seven issues of Ed Burbaker's masterful run on Captain America. The first six actually formed the first story-arc that reintroduces Bucky Barnes, the sidekick who was thought to have died during Steve Rogers' last World War II mission. This was an excellent example of retroactive continuity that is the trend du jour of this modern era of comics and continues even until now.This was an excellent story by Brubaker. He avoided the pitfalls of bringing back a...

That was a nice introduction into the comic book world! I definitely need to get more knowledge on the MCU but I liked it!Since Steve and Bucky are my favorite characters and TWS my fave movie, I figure I would start with that one. I probably should have gone with the basics, but I’ll get there!

The Winter Soldier movie, which was shockingly good, inspired me to dive into the already "historic" Brubaker take on Cap. Because of the heavy symbology inherent in the character, Cap stories are hard to get right. Brubaker gets it right, taking the reader on a sort of mythic tale through American history and both reimagineing and updating The Captain America mythos, including the now well-known "resurrection" of the formerly late and super-lame Bucky. Even Nomad comes across as interesting. My...

As a fan of the movies, but someone who hasn't ever read any Captain America stories, I was curious to see how this would work. For the most part, the story provides sufficient detail as to who and what the people involved are, and it sets up the stakes pretty well to start. Red Skull is about to power the cosmic cube with lots of suffering from simultaneous attacks, when a third party assassinates him. Captain America spends most of this volume investigating with Agent 13, trying to figure out

This is my first real captain america story i invested time in and it's amazingly good! Its a great story about The Winter Solider a mysterious new villain. With the movie they made, they got most of it right except in this book they go in much more detail with Winter Soldiers origin story which they were very vague with in the movie. This book is fun and serious, and i think Ed Brubaker did an amazing job with his vision of Captain America! Highly recommend it!