Winter Soldier is the new Captain America

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Anyone who didn't see this coming clearly isn't patriotic.

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Interview with writer Ed Brubaker:

http://forum.newsarama.com/showthread.php?t=145294

So in this issue, we finally see what writer Ed Brubaker has been building towards since Steve Rogers was killed in Captain America #25 - a new person in the Captain America uniform. Well, in “a” Captain America uniform.

As everybody but those living under rocks now know (and nothing against those who choose to live under rocks – we hear that you can find some great bargains under rocks, as long as they stay dry), James Buchanan “Bucky” Barnes, the original Captain America’s one-time partner (who was recovered by the Soviets after being given up for dead, brainwashed and turned into the uber Cold War assassin known as the Winter Soldier, but he got better) has taken up his mentor’s costume and is now the official “Captain America.”