New Winter Soldier Mini-Series Announced

Hooray! Another shot for the Winter Soldier! On top of appearing in upcoming issues of Secret Avengers and Captain America and being one of the leads in the just announced All-New Invaders, Bucky Barnes will return in February of next year for a mini-series entitled "Winter Soldier: Bitter March." The series will be written by Captain America scribe Rick Remender and will feature art from Roland Boschi. Taking place in the Cold War (so we have a Russian controlled Winter Soldier), this story plans to tie in heavily to events just down the road in Captain America. It also looks like it will pit Winter Soldier against 1960s SHIELD as the Russians and Americans look to secure scientists with potentially war-ending breakthrough weapons. You clever devils will likely also note that the release of this new five-issue mini will coincide nicely with the new Captain America: The Winter Soldier movie set to be released in early April in the US (why yes, I am bitter that we seem to get it later than nearly everybody else out there...sorry Germany and Brazil). The upside of this series for comic fans (other than it will be just another place to see one of the most popular characters created since the 1980s...I've heard the list is Wolverine, Deadpool, Winter Soldier but I heard that from Ed Brubaker so, you know, grain of salt) is that this will tie back to the Captain America ongoing so it doesn't seem like it will be merely a movie tie-in. Fun stuff abound!