WINTER SOLDIER #1
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Art by Butch Guice
Cover by Lee Bermejo, Gabriele Dell’otto, & Joe Kubert
Size: 32 pages
Price: 2.99
This review contains spoilers, click here to read
This past December marked the twentieth anniversary of the end of Soviet dictatorship and the start of a new post-war, liberal democratic order but the Cold War seems to have left an indelible imprint on our cultural consciousness. It’s not difficult to see why: espionage, mystery, and political intrigue lend themselves to novels, films, and even comics.
Winter Soldier’s back story, steeped in Cold War history and its cultural by-products, borrows heavily from Richard Condon’s 1959 novel, The Manchurian Candidate, which itself was twice adapted into films. Winter Solider #1, which follows Bucky Barnes and Black Widow on their search for missing sleeper soldiers, continues this tradition in that it’s an allegory about the threat of nuclear proliferation during the Cold War.
Capturing a particular historical moment necessarily involves reconstructing the sometimes confused events of the past. This book certainly reflects a logic and order in its clear, linear narrative. The art at times looks as if it was done in watercolors or pastels and this quality, along with the framing effect of screens throughout the issue (broadcast news, video feeds, night vision scenes), reinforces the sense that we are looking at a contextualized historical artifact.
But there’s nothing quite like a giant, screaming, arms-wielding gorilla to shatter a good sense of order. This subtle reveal comes as Bucky remarks that one never knows whom one is fighting against. Cold War paranoia, of course, was rooted not in a lack of knowledge of our enemies but rather in the fear that we knew them all too well. McCarthyism was predicated upon the possibility that the kind, old granny next door could be a commie, and you could be one too.
This book re-imagines a historical moment so deeply embedded in popular culture—a moment we think we know well—by posing counterfactuals. What if there was no nuclear disarmament? What if the enemy we were so sure was there, the one we could see everywhere, was instead something beyond the realm of our imagination?
Art: 4 - Very Good