- Title: Winter Soldier #5
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- Writer: Ed Brubaker
- Artist: Butch Guice
“The Longest Winter” concludes at the Winter Soldier and the Black Widow are able to stop Lucia von Bardas‘ plans to launch missiles from Doctor Doom‘s secret nuclear silos using the codes the Latverian monarch programmed into his Doombots.
With their tenuous alliance with Doctor Doom, Bucky and the Black Widow are able to take down Bardas and the second Soviet sleeper agent trained by the Winter Soldier, Dimitri. However, the Red Ghost alludes capture, and the fate of the third sleeper agent is unknown.
A good conclusion of the arc that still leaves a couple of threads let unanswered. It also marks the returns of the Red Ghost’s army of gorillas with machine guns (c’mon, who doesn’t love that?). There’s plenty of action and even an ending that gives Bucky some of his beloved solitary brooding time (along with a quick assassination at the end). No, he’s certainly not Captain America anymore. Worth a look.
[Marvel, $3.99]