Rick Remender On His New ‘Winter Soldier’ Flashback Miniseries

By Andy Hunsaker

USA Today premiered some details on the new Rick Remender/Roland Boschi miniseries Winter Soldier: The Bitter March, which is due to come out in time for the character’s cinematic debut in Captain America: The Winter Soldier.

 

 

Remender is the current writer of Captain America, and while The Bitter March takes place back in 1966, it will set up a backstory for events that he says will shatter Steve Rogers in his own book. It will pit the Winter Soldier – who in those days was a brainwashed super-soldier working for the Soviet government – against Nick Fury (the original) and Ran Shen in a race to get their hands on a secret Nazi formula that could win the Cold War. Remender describes it as “a love letter to (early-period) 007 and Jim Steranko S.H.I.E.L.D. comics.”

Given that the Winter Soldier is the mysterious bad guy the new film, it makes sense to have a book where he’s a full-on bad guy in the height of his mind-controlled dirty deed doing. That said, Remender notes “he was a tool who had very little control of his own mind, but I will be exploring how Bucky Barnes is underneath all of it still. Even back then, there was a piece of him trying to stand back up.”

Some of us can still remember a time when the rule was “Only Bucky stays dead.” His resurrection has not only been a surprise, but it’s managed to be really, really good. We have Ed Brubaker to thank for that. Remender, however, has shown a desire to move as far afield from Brubaker’s work as he can. Will his Winter Soldier do the same?

Andy Hunsaker
Andy Hunsaker

Comic Channel Editor

Comics Editor Andy Hunsaker has written for Yahoo! Movies, Fancast, XfinityTV and UGO, among others, covering movies and television, and has loved comics ever since he read the giant-sized Marvel Treasury Edition of The Rampaging Hulk #26 four thousand times and grew to love guys with weird heads like M.O.D.O.K. and the Bi-Beast.  Therefore, he will also defend Ang Lee's Hulk, although he understands why you don't like it and won't hold that against you.

As far as reviews go, he believes the main point of being a critic is not to pass yourself off as the final arbiter of quality passing holy judgment on a work of art, but rather just to share opinions so that the reader can decide whether or not the critic is someone whose tastes generally align with theirs.  If so, that reviewer is one whose work you can trust if you're curious about a particular title.  If not, cue loud, angry internet vitriol.

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