Resurrections and comic books are totally simpatico. Everyone dies at some point, and they come back eventually. For a long time there were three exceptions: Uncle Ben, Jason Todd, and Bucky. They were more important dead than alive - Ben's murder gave Spider-Man's an MO (and catchphrase), the second Robin's demise made Batman all the more moody, and Bucky gave an edge of darkness to the patriotic Captain America. Turns out, things were even darker than we thought. In Marvel, the concept of sidekicks is an outdated idea, so Bucky wasn't exactly a character the fans were clamoring to see on comic pages again. He was better off dead, and nobody expected him to return anytime soon. That was until Ed Brubaker took over the Captain America title and had an assassin put a hole the size of a trashcan lid into Red Skulls chest. Throughout the first part of the story there were tons of red herrings as to the real identity of the assassin known only as the Winter Soldier, so it was quite the shock when it turned out to be James Barnes, back from the dead. Bucky was considered one of the big three dead dudes, how could Marvel even consider breaking that unwritten rule? Well, as it turned out, DC and Marvel simultaneously acted in a rare moment of comic book serendipity
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