Hello. We know you hate spoilers because we hate spoilers, so in an effort to not spoil anything, we’ve created this post entirely behind the safety of a spoiler-filled jump.
If you have not read Fear Itself #7.1 and do not want to be spoiled on something revealed within its pages, please just move along. This news will assumedly spread like wildfire soon, but we respect your right to privacy.
If you have read Fear Itself #7.1 and/or just don’t care/don’t mind being spoiled, information awaits you beyond the cut.
So THIS is what Ed Brubaker was teasing us about.
In Fear Itself #7.1, Ed Brubaker and Butch Guice write the story of Steve Roger dealing with the death of his best friend Bucky, who died valiantly in the pages of Fear Itself at the hands of Sin. Because this story was Ed’s to tell and not Matt’s (as Matt has said both in the past and to us in an interview), Fear Itself #7.1 was born as “the Captain America issue”, allowing Cap to bury Bucky.
Except that, as probably more than a few of you guessed, things aren’t so clear cut — specifically in the “Bucky isn’t really dead” part, because he is going to star in his own Winter Soldier series:
This is something that fans have been mentioning wanting for a long time now, and while we’ve had a 1) Winter Soldier one-shot in the past, 2) a few Winter Soldier stories when Bucky became Cap in the pages of Captain America and 3) the (incredibly solid) Captain America And Bucky book about to deal with his Winter Soldier years, it looks like that is still not enough — and frankly, we approve.
So look forward to 2012 — Winter Soldier, Ed Brubaker, and Butch Guice.
It looks like Walt kind of gets his wish after all.
(via source)
