Exclusive Preview: WINTER SOLDIER: THE BITTER MARCH #3

Love this book so far!! Looks like more great stuff is coming!

Completely agreed!

@jonny_anonymous: I think "Winter Soldier" is just the marketing angle. This isn't really about him, it's about how Shen becomes the Iron Dragon in Captain America.

Yea pretty much but Bucky needs a new ongoing.

@jonny_anonymous: I think "Winter Soldier" is just the marketing angle. This isn't really about him, it's about how Shen becomes the Iron Dragon in Captain America.

Completely agree. The only reason I'm getting All New Invaders is because it has Bucky in it. Oh what I would give to have Brubaker back on a Bucky title.....

Just from this preview I'm even more sure that's all this mini-series is. The past two issues have had so little of an appearance by Winter Soldier that I'm about ready to drop this title. Issue #2 ended with it appearing like maybe Bucky would have a good fight scene in this issue...but once again it looks like Shen gets all of the panel time and Bucky is left on the sidelines. -____-

To be honest, I think I recall Remender saying that this is the story of how Shen turned coat....But I don't remember him saying Shen would narrate and star in it...regardless though, I hope the pay off of this mini is that Bucky makes a big appearance in the current Captain America arc

He made a short appearance not long ago in Remender's run, so I wouldn't be surprised to see Bucky popping up again. My main issue with this mini-series is that it's called "Winter Soldier" yet has very little of an appearance by Bucky to justify that title. Already two issues in and Bucky has barely even made an appearance. I was hoping with how issue #2 ended that we'd finally see Bucky in action, but by the looks of this preview that doesn't appear to be the case here either.

It's beginning to look more and more like Remender is simply using this mini-series to establish HIS own character, Ran Shen, and is just using Bucky as a marketing ploy to draw in fans of that character, but is really pushing a completely different one within the book. They might as well have just called this mini-series "Ran Shen: Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D."

I don't like anything Remender is doing in the Cap corner of Marvel.

He made a short appearance not long ago in Remender's run, so I wouldn't be surprised to see Bucky popping up again. My main issue with this mini-series is that it's called "Winter Soldier" yet has very little of an appearance by Bucky to justify that title. Already two issues in and Bucky has barely even made an appearance. I was hoping with how issue #2 ended that we'd finally see Bucky in action, but by the looks of this preview that doesn't appear to be the case here either.

It's beginning to look more and more like Remender is simply using this mini-series to establish HIS own character, Ran Shen, and is just using Bucky as a marketing ploy to draw in fans of that character, but is really pushing a completely different one within the book. They might as well have just called this mini-series "Ran Shen: Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D."

@jonny_anonymous: I think "Winter Soldier" is just the marketing angle. This isn't really about him, it's about how Shen becomes the Iron Dragon in Captain America.

I don't like anything Remender is doing in the Cap corner of Marvel.

I liked his Dimension Z storyline, but since then I've really come to hate his run. Remender has stated multiple times that he wants to write like old 70s crazy sci-fi stories for Cap, yet those are the exact kind of stories I feel DON'T work for Cap. What made Ed Brubaker's run such as a success, and ultimately what boosted Cap's popularity, was that it focused on Cap as a soldier, not a superhero, and was more grounded in reality (as close as you can in comics, that is). But Remender is doing the exact opposite of that and going to wacky weird sci-fi stories.

I mean we went from cool, corporate soldier/mercenary villains like Winter Soldier, Crossbones, and Alexander Lukin to guys like...

Am I the ONLY one who thinks this guy looks completely stupid? I mean I know it's a comic, but there has to be a line drawn somewhere...like, seriously. -____-

I was worried Marvel was going to do that.

I read the first issue, but dropped it after that for budget reasons.

I don't necessarily dislike what he's doing...it's just different from what I'm used to read in regards to Cap (aka Brubaker) so I'm not totally loving it.

I completely agree. "Winter Soldier" is just to sell the books. But they're also not totally wrong because Bucky has technically appeared in every issue. It really sucks but at least we're getting "TWO" titles with Bucky in it, right?

I liked his Dimension Z storyline, but since then I've really come to hate his run. Remender has stated multiple times that he wants to write like old 70s crazy sci-fi stories for Cap, yet those are the exact kind of stories I feel DON'T work for Cap. What made Ed Brubaker's run such as a success, and ultimately what boosted Cap's popularity, was that it focused on Cap as a soldier, not a superhero, and was more grounded in reality (as close as you can in comics, that is). But Remender is doing the exact opposite of that and going to wacky weird sci-fi stories.

I mean we went from cool, corporate soldier/mercenary villains like Winter Soldier, Crossbones, and Alexander Lukin to guys like...

Am I the ONLY one who thinks this guy looks completely stupid? I mean I know it's a comic, but there has to be a line drawn somewhere...like, seriously. -____-

You're not really missing out. It's nothing you NEED to read unless you want to learn the origin of the current bad guy in Cap.

I'm not reading Remender's Captain America. From what I've heard, his Marvel stuff has really dropped in quality since Uncanny X-Force (one of my favorite comics ever) ended.

What has he done post-UXF besides Captain America and Uncanny Avengers? Cap is decent at best, like said above, he's trying to make it too sci-fi instead of soldier, and his Uncanny Avengers is pretty good (though I think overhyped at best).

Those are the only Marvel books I know he's doing. He's also doing Black Science and Deadly Class for Image.

Ah right okay, I forgot about the image. Have you read those at all? Maybe he just hit gold with UXF and can't seem to recover from it.