How I would handle Iceman title

I haven't used this in forever, but I was asked this recently and it's been something I've been thinking about for a while and.. well a blog is the only way to explain all of this properly.

 Basically How I would handle the Iceman on-going

 Issue 1 

 Iceman calls up old pal Rogue for road trip to clear head. Rogue agrees that it would be fun and they haven't seen each other in forever. The two start a fun adventure and talk about recent events. Iceman talks to her about being gay and uses his typical humor and jokes through the conversation. Rogue picks up that he feels the X-Men are treating him different, which Bobby eventually admits is probably all in his head. They are attacked randomly by Pyro, who seems to be more powerful than ever before and can create flames, not just manipulate them. He attacks brutally and quickly. Of course, Phoenix is invoked and Pyro captures/delays Rogue. Bobby has to push himself beyond his normal limits, but eventually takes him out. Rogue and Bobby return on road trip.

 Issue 2 

Bobby and Rogue come to a new town. Things feel a little strange and shortly after arriving, Bobby is arrested for a string of robberies in the area, all using ice. Iceman peacefully goes to prison while Rogue tries to figure out what is going on. While Rogue is out looking for clues, the prison is attacked by a female ice villain. She's sexy and flirts with Iceman who is having nothing with it. She has the ability to create ice and control Iceman's ice. they go back and forth and Bobby has to think how to use his powers best to take her down given that his powers don't seem to work normally. He eventually defeats her with a little help from Rogue and the two continue their adventure.  

Issue 3 

Bobby and Rogue are hanging out at a country bar, line dancing and having fun. Bobby starts flirting with a guy who seems really interested. Bobby and the guy he's flirting with decide to head out and go get food. Unfortunately, the guy is actually a telepath and attacks Bobby when they are alone. Telepathic villain uses his powers to try to confuse and disorientate Bobby and convince him he's really straight. Bobby has to confront his past with women and men as well as admit that his coming out wasn't healthy and a tad traumatic. Bobby is able to come to terms with everything and take out the bad guy. He meets up with Rogue, feeling better than he has in a while. Rogue tells him she has to return to the Avengers, but wishes him well. He asks her to let the X-Men know that he's OK and going on.
  

Issue 4 

The return of Cloud! Bobby runs into male Cloud who is on Earth trying to find and stop a young nebula cloud who wants to emulate what Cloud did on accident when Cloud first came to Earth. Male Cloud and bobby have a couple awkward moments and male Cloud explains that he and his female aspect split a few years ago so the nebula clouds could have different experiences. Together they hunt down the young naive nebula cloud and stop it from doing intentionally what Cloud did accidentally. Bobby and Cloud make up in the end and Bobby tells Cloud that he's always loved him and he regrets how things happened. They kiss before they part.

 Issue 5 

Bobby hunts down Northstar to talk about being gay and a mutant. He discovers that Northstar and his husband have divorced. Jean-Paul asks Bobby on a date and they talk about what happened. Jean-Paul admits that the relationship went too fast, too quick and it just didn't work, but that he's excited to be on a date with Bobby. Unfortunately in the middle of the day, a powered up Kyle Jindau, Jean-Paul's now ex-husband, busts in and tries to start a fight. He fires energy all around and is angry that Jean-Paul is moving on so quickly. Jean-Paul and Bobby try to stop Kyle without hurting him and it's basically a big mess of a brawl. Finally they are able to subdue Kyle and Jean-Paul tries to find out what is going on. They discover Kyle was given powers by a mysterious baddie to get Bobby and manipulated into attacking. Kyle and Jean-Paul decide to talk out their problems and Bobby goes to find out who the bad guy is.

 Issue 6 

Bobby wakes up, captured by the new bad guy. Quick flash back of what happened with Bobby being jumped. Bad guy reveals that he hates Bobby because Bobby has always had it easy. Reveals his big plan to ruin Bobby's life by taking his powers and that he's the source of all the attacks on Bobby all this time, using his own powers which can give or enhance other people's powers as well as take a mutant's powers. Bobby and the guy fight as it's clear the bad guy is unhinged and filled with hatred. This is basically just a fight issue but Bobby has to confront this angry and hateful guy.

New 52 Power Girl

So many people have mentioned to me and probably all over the internet that they don't understand who new 52 Power Girl is. I don't honestly get this since it's all kind of spelled out there even without the comic being in her voice, her personality shines through.

See you have to understand. Kara Zor-L aka Karen Star aka Power Girl/Supergirl of Earth-2 was sent from her dying planet to Earth. Her rocket moved slower than Kal-L's, her cousins, and she arrived after him. When she arrived, he was fully grown and he was kind of an ass. He locked her up in a light house and kept her secret from the world to make her, his secret weapon. Then war hit Earth-2, Darkseid invaded, sending parademons out and wrecking havoc on the world in general. The Wonders arose to battle this threat, only 8 in all. They were: Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, Catwoman, Robin (Helena Wayne), Supergirl (Kara Zor-L) and Mr. 8 (Terry Sloan). The 8th hasn't been mentioned yet.

So what does that tell us? Power Girl went straight from being hidden and locked up to going to war to save her world. She's been fighting ever sense. She never got a chance to enjoy her life at all. Then the war ends, a gate opens, her and Helena are thrown to the main Earth. Once on the main Earth, they each decided to take up different roles. Helena decided to be the shadow, the character in the background, much like her father and Karen decided to be in the spotlight. And let's face it, she loved the spotlight. Karen, however, missed her family. She only HAD Kal-L and wanted to get back to him, so she spent a lot of time and money trying to get back to Earth-2, but she was also enjoying life as much as possible while she was there. She dated Michael Holt, Mister Terrific, because she wanted to get technology from him that she hoped would help her return to Earth-2 (which ironically he had and used to get himself to Earth-2).

Karen is also brash, headstrong, and powerful. She doesn't always think things through because she's never really HAD to. She was more of a good foot soldier, but she's proven she's not dumb and she is aware of her powers and capabilities. She likes being the center of attention because she's never been it. She likes the attention. Her early costume was always getting ripped or destroyed, and she didn't care. Money wasn't important to her, it was there just as a means to an ends (and for fun). She also has no qualms about her body and embraces it. She's lonely, but she has her best friend with her and that makes it easier. But it is hard for her to see her cousin, Superman, flying around even though she knows it's not really her cousin, which is why she's rather harsh with Helena about contacting the others. She cares about people especially HER people and she has a knack for making rather savvy business decisions. She is a pretty good judge of character and talent as she's gathered a rather good amount of geniuses around her, to fill in the knowledge she doesn't have.

So yeah.. I think we have a pretty decent picture of who New 52 Karen is and btw, I'm not even up to date with Worlds' Finest. :)

Top 10 reasons Marvel needs a reboot.. NOW

These are not necessarily in order lol.

1) Time travel nonsense- Seriously Marvel.. you've taken time travel nonsense to the extreme. There were already issues with time travel from Bishop, Cable, and Phoenix (Rachel Summers), all from different futures, but you've taken it to a new level lately. Not only now have Bishop, Cable, and Rachel Summers's futures no longer exist, yet they still exist even though how they were born and everything is completely gone, but you guys have really confused things. See apparently Bishop, Cable, and Rachel can still exist because time is locked, but time is not locked enough to keep Beast from going back to the past, grabbing the original 5 X-Men from their timeline and bringing them to the future all without changing anything. But Wolverine and Invisible Woman can go back in time and murder Hank Pym and that changes everything. Not even to mention the whole Iron Lad/Kang the Conqueror thing. I'm sure there are tons more that I've missed

2) Children Everywhere- We've already mentioned Cable and Rachel Summers/Grey who are time traveling kids from an alternate future that never existed now, but.. we've also got issues with random kids. Since Captain Marvel (Mar-Vell of the Kree) died, he's had 3 kids with 2 different moms. Yeah, you heard me. 3 kids, 2 moms, and he's dead. He's had Genis-Vell and Phyla-Vell with Elysius, who admitted to taking his DNA and creating clone-babies, and then he had Hulkling with Princess Anelle of the Skrull. See how this might be a problem? Well it gets even more crazy. Carol Danvers and Captain Mar-Vell were contemporaries. Genis-Vell and Phyla-Vell were rapidly aged, but Theodore (Hulkling) has grown up at normal pace. That means.. Carol Danvers has to be in her 50's or 60's, but she's clearly not. Meanwhile Franklin Richards has been around since the 60's and is only a few years older. Yeah, figure that one out people! FIGURE THAT ONE OUT!

3) Malleable Reality Nonsense- Let's start with Phyla-Vell for this one. See, Phyla was actually born on another reality, but because of some weird mombo jombo and the end of the universe, she was made a part of our universe. Confusing? Yeah, but Marvel fixed that by killing her off and never mentioning her again. THen we get to Valerie Richards, she first appeared as Valerie von Doom, the child of Doctor Doom from an alternate reality, and she was grown up. Stuff happened, things changed and suddenly, she's the daughter of Reed and Sue Richards! Oh and another great one, Wiccan and Speed are the kids of Scarlet Witch and Vision even though their both teenagers and would have been fully formed kidlets when Scarlet Witch and Vision got together, but Scarlet Witch warped reality somehow and it's.. there. Oh and they're twins even though they're from different parents because of the reality warping. No confusion there!

4) No More Mutants except These guys, but not anymore We've got new mutants, oh wait, not those new mutants, THESE new mutants huh?- About 10 years ago, Marvel did a massive crossover event where Scarlet Witch wiped out all of the mutants except 200 some odd (numbers are all over the place an inconsistent on this). Almost instantly after doing this, they repowered Iceman with some lame excuse and the only mutant in an X-Men related title that remained depowered was Rictor of X-Factor. His powers were eventually returned. Then they revealed Hope Summers, the Mutant Messiah, who came to allow mutants to be mutants again (this is after several depowered mutants got their powers back when writers wanted to use them, mind you). Hope gathers up the Lights, a group of young mutants, all of whom she helps give them their mutant powers. So yeah right? Mutants are back, Hope's gonna do her thing, new mutants will appear again and everything is good. No, that wasn't the REAL time Mutants came back, that was the fake time. So Phoenix comes to Earth, everyone assumes it wants Hope so Hope can do great things, it instead chooses 5 hosts, Cyclops, Emma Frost, Colossus, Namor, and Magik. They use their great powers to do wonders all over the world and.. create new mutants AGAIN! This time it sticks at least some. The thing is, people who were mutants aren't repowered (at least most), but new people are randomly become mutants, how nobody knows, but this is random craziness.

5) Inhumutants™- Since Marvel doesn't own the movie rights to X-Men, they decided to unleash the Terrigen Mist that creates Inhumans onto the Earth and make random people into Inhumans except that that's not the way Terrigen Mist works on any level, but Marvel has no decided it does, so it does, even though it doesn't. So now, the earth is filled with heroes from various origins, mutants, and now Inhumans, creating a new Inhumans scare at the same time as the mutant scare. They're the same, yet different. How can anybody tell the difference? Nobody knows! They just ARE! How this makes sense? Nobody knows! It just does!

6) Retconipoloza!- Just like Rachel Summers is now Rachel Grey and a completely different character because her future doesn't exist yet does exist for the purposes of making her, Marvel has been a mass of retcons. They keep retconning retcons on top of retcons and it's made the entire Marvel Universe a mess. Marvel recently did One More Day and retconned the Mary Jane and Peter Parker marriage and also hid Peter Parker's identity from everyone except some, but not others, and created a mess. Wolverine's origins retconned a few dozen times to make a mishmash of craziness. Marvel has a long history of doing mini retcons on particular titles or characters, so their history really doesn't make much sense anymore. SOme things happened and then other things didn't happen. Guardians of the Galaxy has been relaunched now with a new writer and a new direction, but it pretends to keep the previous incarnation in continuity while simultaneously ignoring the entire previous run. It's rather insane how much they've ignored things including Rocket Raccoon's entire history, where he's always been a raccoon, now he doesn't want to be known as a raccoon even though he is one. Not to mention the whole fact that Matt Murdock has been outed as DareDevil numerous times now and the whole world knows he's DareDevil, but yet they don't believe he's DareDevil except the some people that do and there is another mess.

7) Inconsistancies- Since writers apparently don't read what has come before (or can't do a single google search) or know what is going on in other comics they aren't writing, there are tons of inconsistencies. Rachel Grey (formerly Rachel Summers) suddenly can't walk in high heel shoes even though her costume for years had high heel shoes and she ran in them regularly. Wolverine in one title is gung-ho about killing everyone, in another title he is all against killing for any reason. Beast is against a kill squad when Cyke is leading, but OK with Wolverine is. Avengers are against killing sometimes except when it's Wolverine OK with doing it. Wolverine and Spider-Man appear in tons of titles a month, but there is no way they can keep going like they do. Wolverine is suddenly EVERYONE'S best friend even when others should be vastly closer and have worked/been friends with them longer. Plots from 20-30 years ago randomly pop up because the writer left and came back with no build up. Again, I'm sure there are tons more, but I can't even list them all.

8) Same old, Same old- The same villains and storylines keep getting rehashed every few years like clockwork. They could have just done that exact storyline just a few years before, but this time they're going to do it again and act like it's new this time. On the same token, villains that the good guys have dealt with countless times suddenly this time, they're a big major threat even though they're doing the same plot they had just done a few years ago.

9) Rampant Douchebaggery- A few years ago, Ultron teamed up with the Phalanx and absolutely destroyed the entire galaxy. Every empire was in shambles, the stability of the universe was thrown into question. Billions died. But, when Ultron attacks Earth and destroys parts of Earth and causes a huge mess for EARTH, then he suddenly becomes a real threat that Hank Pym needs to shut down forever. Why didn't any of the Earth heroes care when Ultron was destroying the universe? because.. it wasn't Earth, so it didn't matter. During Avengers vs. X-Men, the Avengers randomly decided they should be the authority on the Phoenix and mutant business in general even though, they'd never once cared before. Rogue treats Scarlet Witch like shit because of House of M, but Rogue herself for all intents and purposes murdered Carol Danvers and is dating the mass murderer, Magneto and forgave Gambit for his part in the mutant Massacre. Again, I'm sure there are tons more, that I'm unaware of.

10) "All in Continuity"- Marvel touts that everything you've ever read by Marvel "matters". The problem is there is so much continuity, throw in the rectons, and it's near impossible for ANYONE to know it all. Heck, Marvel's number one writer doesn't even seem to know it all. Remember it all happened, sorta.. but not if the writer doesn't remember it. Fans of Marvel don't even completely get it because it all "matters" but it doesn't since.. stuff happened to make it not matter, but yet it does matter. It's really a weakness at this point since it's just all a huge confusing mess, that even Marvel's staff can't keep track of it!

Wonder Woman and the Star Riders.. and what it could be

So I have recently discovered (or maybe rediscovered)Wonder Woman and the Star Riders. It was a concept of the early 90's where basically, they'd sell action toys to girls by trying to appeal to girls with jewels, unicorns, and what not. It ultimately didn't ever see the light of day and it was clear the concept borrowed heavily from She-Ra, it's predecessor, but it's still a cool concept. It was a joint venture between DC and Hasbro.

More about it here Wonder Woman and the Star Riders

Thinking about the idea, I was thinking how it could easily be changed to a DC only property so Hasbro wouldn't sue DC over it.

Here's my idea:

Ares has gone and killed or stolen the power of all the other Gods of War. He has been aided by his lackeys, the Duke of Deception,Lord Conquest, Earl of Greed as well as his children, Eris & Phobos. Ares and his lackeys are able to fill people with an uncontrollable desire for war/aggression, fear, chaos, greed or deception, which ultimately turns them into a monster.

The Goddesses of Love convene with Aphrodite at their head and call in 5 teenage girls, who are reincarnations of the Amazons of old to aid them.
Diana Prince (who will look of Greek decent of course) to be Wonder Woman using the power of Aphrodite's love.
Tora Olfsdotter as Ice (or Icemaiden, I prefer the later, but either name works) powered by the Goddess Freyja.
Beatriz Da Costa as Fire (or maybe something sun based?) powered by the Incan Goddess Chasca.
Bi Ting Yufei as Jade granted powers from Benzaiten.
Mari Jiwe Mcabe will be Vixen and gain powers from Oshun.
the girls will have magical powers, but also fight physically. Each will have a power based on an element or concept. Wonder Woman will be spirit/love, Tora will be water/ice, Fire will be fire/sun, Jade will be earth/pants, and Vixen's will be animal/life.

It'd be awesome.. really.

Wonder Woman -Athenian or Spartan?

There has been a lot of discussion recently about who Wonder Woman is, what she represents, how she acts, what weapons she uses, and well every aspect of the character thanks mostly to the new 52. Fans of the current incarnation point to the fact that Wondy has ALWAYS been a warrior. She's always fought her Gods at some point. So yes, we know Wondy has used guns, swords, and battle axes before. We know she's killed and chopped off heads before. All of that is previous canon, so those who love this current run point to that. They also mention how well the new title has sold compared to the last one. All of these may be valid points, but the major question has to be is does this character properly represent Wonder Woman? What is so vastly different about this incarnation as opposed to the previous one if there are so many similarities (and obvious differences, like new origin etc)? Well the answer is that Pre and Post-Crisis Wonder Woman had Athenian ideals and the current one is clearly following Spartan ideals.

First let me say that I haven't done extensive research into Greek history so I'm sure some historian can find flaws with my limited and basic understanding of these two Poleis.

That said, I find that the original Wonder Woman (pre-new 52) always followed the Atenian ideals. This meant her patron goddess was Athena, goddess of wisdom and war. That means Wonder Woman always tempered her violence with wisdom (aka peace). She wouldn't just chop off heads, she'd always try to find a better way. She often spoke with people and her villains to try to change them and reform them. She tried to use her mind as her main weapon, only resorting to more physical forms when needed. Of course, there were times when she didn't and those are the times that lead her to issues, like partially having the WW mantle taken from her by the Amazons for abandoning their ideals. Like Athens, Wonder Woman was a powerful force, capable of subduing her enemies if need be, but like Athens, she often waited to be attacked first, not openly provoking attacks. Now of course, the Amazons did launch unprovoked attacks thanks to silly editorial mandates, but most find that completely out of character for the Utopian Society because well it was. Also, like Athens, Amazon's were allowed to have multiple jobs and purposes, not just warrior. They could be artists, philosophers, warriors, and poets, just to name a few. They were a diverse and different crowd, that truly wanted peace, but would never shy from war if need be. Their patronage was mostly the Greek Goddesses, though the Gods were known to get involved and cause problems. They opposed Ares, God of War, for the wanton destruction that Ares caused. They even evolved at one point that Themiscyra had become a paradise for the best and brightest of the world, like Athens of ancient Greece.

Now? Wonder Woman and her Amazon sisters follow the Spartan way. Sparta was a massive war state, worshiping the god Ares. The Amazons no longer have diversity, they like the Spartan men, were raised solely for war. They think of nothing else and have no thought of philosophy or poetry. They just wish to kill and destroy. Wonder Woman, raised in this environment, has become more violent herself. It has been revealed that she was once the protege of Ares. Ares, once the greatest enemy of the Amazons and Wonder Woman, is now training one of them. This alone should signal to people that this is a massive shift in the character, but there is no real statement of such from anyone. Wonder Woman, now, uses her short sword as her sole weapon, her Lasso of Truth and mind often falling far behind of her hacking and slashing things. She relishes battle and charges in with open abandonment. The Amazons are blood thirsty and desire war above all else. They even act like Spartans, casting out their "Deformed" male children and keeping the "fit" female children. Gone are all thoughts of any philosophy, poetry, or ceramics, instead, the new Spartan Amazons train, practice, and fight. That is their life. They have no time or thought for anything else and it shows. This has lead Wonder Woman to the path of WARRIOR above all else. She is no longer a diplomat and she doesn't seem to care about anyone but herself. In fact, she only seems to tolerate the young Zola, who is of course a stranger to the Spartan world. It was also stereotyped that the Spartan's were not very smart because they lacked the artistic principals of Athens, and it shows in the new 52 Diana. She has consistently been shown as being either stupid or naive, having no real clue about her society or anything else for that matter. And Diana seems to have no real desire to learn more and of course her Spartan sisters have no desire to do more.

This, to my mind, is the major flaw in the current Wonder Woman run. She's completely abandoned all her principals that FORMED her. She's gone from being MORE than a warrior to nothing more than a warrior. She's gone from being an Athenian idealist, whom albeit fell short of her ideals, to a perfect Spartan warrior. It should also be mentioned that despite the fact that everyone cheers how well this current WW is selling, it is NOT the highest selling run. Back in 2006 when Heinberg was revamping WW, issue #1 was the #1 selling comic that month at over 100,000 issues. Despite massive delays, that relaunch still managed to sell roughly 10,000 more copies than this current WW at her height in issue #1. So no, this is NOT the best selling Wonder Woman and as far as relaunches go, the sales are actually pretty poor. Yes, they're better than the previous issues before the relaunch, but historically, this is the worst WW's done.

The Outsiders, My idea for the DC New 52

So here's a crazy idea.. I think it'd be awesome to have a group called the Outsiders. They are a group of fractured heroes, they have no clue who they are, where they came from, or where they got their powers. All they know is they seem drawn together, a desire to help people, and a general fear of the law and other heroes. The group has "flashes" of their various and complex pasts. The team would be Donna Troy, Lilith (Omen), Sarah Rainmaker (of Gen 13), Wally West, Jay Abrams (Blue Jay), and Deula Dent. Others may join the team later.

MUST READ Marvel books (for those that don't read Marvel)

I am not a huge fan of Marvel comics (As I'm sure most people are aware), but there are some comics that are just well.. fan-fucking-tastic and you should read them. There is A LOT you can skip, seriously, there is a shit ton, but.. this is a list of Marvel titles I think you should read:

DareDevil (1998) 16-19 (Wake Up trade) and 50-55 (Echo)- This introduces Echo and tells us more about the character. She's by far one of my favourite Marvel characters and her relationship with Matt was rather cute and sweet. She's a rather kick ass character.
DareDevil current series by Waid- It's pretty good actually. It's a lighter tone for DareDevil and it's actually interesting. I like this series thus far, I hope it continues to be rather great.
Agents of Atlas- If you are a fan of Golden Age characters revamped like JSA, you'll love this. Seriously, it's a group of crazy Golden Age characters, modernized and made so awesome and cool that you will love every minute of this.
Dan Slott's She-Hulk- For the first time in a long time, Jennifer Walters has to learn to be comfortable as well.. Jennifer Walters. She's hidden behind She-Hulk persona and it has allowed her life to kinda go to shit, so.. she gets kicked out of the Avengers and is forced to get her life together. How? She goes back to her lawyer roots and helps with Superhero Law.. the catch? She has to do this all as the puny white often squirrelly Jennifer Walters instead of the gorgeous, green and powerful.. She-Hulk!
Hawkeye and Mockingbird- This is a fun and amazing spy series about a divorced couple and their rekindling relationship as well as their working relationship. The two work so well together, it's really amazing.
Black Widow (2010, the most recent one)- I started this because of Marjorie M Liu's amazing take on Black Widow. After that, Duane Swierczynski (current BoP writer) took over and the series took a mild change of direction. Both show Black Widow as a kick ass take-no-prisoners spy and it's pretty damn awesome.
Widowmaker- So, you've read Hawkeye and Mockingbird and Black Widow and still want more? Well.. here it is! The trio investigate the deaths of various spies that have died in their respective networks. They start out, at first, a little at odds with each other, then reluctantly begin to work together to find out who is behind this travesty.
Incredible Hercules- Great, fun story about Hercules and his genius partner, Amadeus Cho. It's hilarious and great fun to read, seriously. Get it.. now!
Prince of Power- This follows Amadeus Cho as he becomes the new Prince of Power for the age of the mind instead the age of strength!
Greg Pak's run on Hulk (Yes all of it!)- Starting with Hulk shipped off to space to a savage planet where he finds peace and love before it gets destroyed.. to the evil Bruce Banner era. I love seeing Bruce as the "bad guy" and showing how he's an unrivaled genius and only the fact that he's become Hulk regularly get in the way.
Marvel Knights: Inhumans- An adult Inhumans story for the adult comic audience. A race of aliens where each and every one is completely individual (with their own powers and look) struggles to stop a war that could wipe out their entire hidden city on the Moon.
Alias- Former superhero, Jessica Jones, has put up her tights and turned to a life as a Private Investigator. Rather dark and edgy series that deals with Jessica's real problems and the fact that she used to be a rather goofy and naive super heroine named Jewel.
X-Force/X-Statix/X-Statix Presents: Dead Girl- What happens when you have a reality TV show based all around "disposable" mutant superheroes? Well.. X-Statix of course. They live life on the edge knowing that every mission could be their last.
Brubaker's Captain America vol. 5 & 6/Captain America & Bucky/Winter Solider (Upcoming)- Seriously, I am not a fan of Captain America. When he died, I didn't care. I was not interested in reading it at all, but.. I heard good things and FINALLY decided to check it out and well.. I'm now a Captain America fan.. or rather, I think I'm more of a Bucky/Winter Soldier fan tbh. This series is rather amazing. I love James Buchanan and how he's been revamped (and his history with Black Widow). I even enjoy the Steve Rogers stories as Steve no longer comes off as clean cut guy, but rather he's showing he's more of a soldier with less and less desire to be a symbol.